GREAT SUBWAY
AT PICCADILLY CIRCUS. LONDON'S NEW UNDERGROUND. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copy right). ißeceived this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. December 10. Piccadilly Circus underground station, the most wonderful in tin* world, opens to-day. It is a city ol light in London clay, with seven subways, which occupied four years in being built. The Circus is a hollow shell, over which teeming traffic swirls around in a circle. It lias oltcn been called the centre of the world borne on the shoulders of a subterranean Atlas. There is an imposing array ol automatic ticket machines and change kiosks, dials indicating trains, telephone cabinet, lamp columns, eleven escalators, and numerous staircases. The station cost ball a million sterling, and will handle lifly million passengers yearly. .Every spadeful of clay was band dug and removed through a shaft only eighteen feel wide and ninety-two deep at the rate of q thousand tons monthly.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1928, Page 5
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