LONDON'S UNDERGROUND

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 20

LONDON'S UNDERGROUND

BUILDING A NEW RAILWAY.

STATION.

Workmen digging far below the Thames Embankment Gardens recently came upon a concrete wall. They broke through with their picks, and there, bofore their eyes, was a beautiful new underground station! It rather: spoils a promising' fairy story (writes a "Daily Chronicle" representative) to add that thoy found only what tKey, expected, and that they have been digging towards the new station fpr the past week or two. Still, it was a dramatic moment when the spade of one of the workmen first struck the concrete, and all knew that they had reached their goal. . , . As the rough temporary wall gave beneath their blows, first a chink of light appeared; then came a hailing voice from the other side. They werethrough! The atation is the new Charing Cross of the through line from Edgeware on the north to Morden on the south. Formerly it was the terminus from Highgate, and there was a loop under the river by which trains running south could turn about and go north again. This loop will now be closed. To accommodate the north-running trains from Morden a new station, with escalators, had been built. It was this escalator shaft which was driven down to meet the station—and found it. ' It is expected that the extension will result in 50 million passengers using Charing Cross underground station each year, instead of 35 million as at present. The total c-st of the new line is about £3,500,000. When a "Daily Chronicle" representative visited the new: gtation—by means of the crane-hoisted hod used for bricks, etc.—he-found it awaiting only tiles, rails, and automatic, machines. In ono of the walls "was a small; hole. It 1 was the site of the coming escalator!.