The new cream-coloured tiles on the Victoria Line

[Azrael]

Or does it look like that in real life?

I'm a random poster on the web, but I can confirm that it looked like that when I hurried past last week.

I assume this is by a different photographer, and it looks the same:-

The Vic Line tiles at Blackhorse Road are a favourite:-

 

[cybertect]

I've never understood what the link between Oxford Circus and snakes and ladders was supposed to be, although I've empathised with the everyman characters on the background escalators of the image.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/2445.aspx

Oxford Circus Station has a snakes and ladders motif, representing the complexities of the station's interconnecting passageways

which fits with what I'd always thought about it - Oxford Circus has 14 escalators: more than any other station on the London Underground.

 

[quimcunx]

ah, well done, cybes.



Now what about these swans?

 

[Azrael]

Now what about these swans?

Stockwell by Abram Games: a semi-abstract swan, representing the nearby pub of the same name.

From this page, which has comprehensive information about the decorative panels throughout the Victoria Line stations. And, I'm pleased to say, a wide-shot of the new (restored) Oxford Circus platform.

It also seems that I'm not alone in thinking the old grey tiles look like a public convenience. Contemporary journalists described it as "late lavatorial style".

 

[teuchter]

Oxford Circus has 14 escalators: more than any other station on the London Underground.

If I were asked which station had the most escalators, I wouldn't have guessed Oxford Circus. I'd have gone for Kings Cross St Pancras.

 

[quimcunx]

@ Azrael.Oh. Right. Well.

I was right about the Oxford Circus one being the intersection of Victoria, Central and Bakerloo lines, which pleases me.

I'm very much from the ''late lavatorial'' era myself...

 

[Azrael]

I like Leslie Green's Yerkes tiles the best; Edwardian masterpieces that (to my knowledge) aren't listed. The best examples are at Russell Square and Covent Garden.

They've recently been covered-over, but thankfully, it's like-for-like, and the effect is the same.

 

[PacificOcean]

Walthamstow Central goes for the Indian restaurant look.

Yuk!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

@ Azrael.Oh. Right. Well.

Are you glad you've seen the swans now Quimmy?

 

[quimcunx]

Are you glad you've seen the swans now Quimmy?

Overwhelmed with emotion, minnie.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Overwhelmed with emotion, minnie.

You'll never look at those tiles in the same light again

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I saw the cream tiles at Warren Street for the first time a couple of days ago...I thought that they had stripped the walls back, revealing older tiles, which would then be tiled over with something nicer I don't like them - they make the station look like a urinal

 

[JWH]

Oh, the swans are great!