Metropolitan Line

[Busboy105]

Nov 7, 2021 21:17:35 GMT greenboy said:

Nov 7, 2021 21:12:02 GMT Busboy105 said:

Does the Met share the same track as the Circle and H&C between Aldgate and GPS?

Yes

OK thanks.

[wirewiper]

The arcade over the Metropolitan/Circle/Hammersmith & City Line tracks at Liverpool Street Underground is to be converted into a food hall by the owners of BoxPark. The new venture will be called BoxHall and will feature up to 16 outlets with kitchens, run by small traders.

The arcade was built over the tracks by the Metropolitan Railway in 1912, following electrification of the sub-surface railway - the Metropolitan Railway was an independent concern at the time, and did not become part of London Underground until it was compulsorily acquired by London Transport in 1933. The Metropolitan Railway (which included most of the route of the Hammersmith & City Line) built up a considerable property portfolio at its Central London stations between 1900 and 1930 and its architecture is quite distinctive compared to that on other parts of the Underground.

The arcade was threatened with demolition in 1988, but a petition to save it was signed by over 6,000 people and it was restored in 1995. 


Metropolitan Railway Arcade by Julian Walker, on Flickr