PRINTING A STATION

Logo. wall tiles, glass bricks and London transport posters.

If you google you can find just about anything

I saved, copy and pasted all to a word document

Print off and gluing to woodwork





THE BOWES ROAD CUTTING AND OVERPASS

To create the station platform cutting,  I build up from the base board laying 40mm x 20 mm pine wood around the whole circuit and then attached my printed tile work with station logos, platform advertisement with crisscross fencing lining the top of the cutting.

The platform structure now appear to below the ground level with the over head walkway and roadway  over pass linking to the main station hall  

 

The structure of the station hall, Arnos Grove is build on a raise platform, this will allow cutaways for later subway entrances.
Sketching out  the layout of the hall from Charles Holden floor plans which I found on  the internet.  The ordinals which are still on display in the main station hall  . Cutting the walls out of 40mm x 20mm pine and with balsa wood strips, the brick fencing
 

 

 

 

Arnos Grove or is it East Finchley

 

 

Round and Round we go,

glass and brick, Art Deco.

Holden’s influence was more hands on here, more geometric curves in his  designs. 

 

The station's hall is built on rising ground adjacent to the railway bridge. 

This station feature lofty ship figure heads of a kneeling archers.

 

THE MODEL.

Round is not as hard as you think, by curving paper around the model station's block woodwork, a radius is form and you have your first Art Deco design feature.

Colour is also important, bold blues and whites and lots of printed glass bricks will help.

I used simple  black plastic fencing, to crisscross the viaducts

Remember building  up on the base board will give you dimension, as in the real world, nothing is flat.

 

 

 

I added the kneeling archers. to the design by scanning a photo and adding to printout.

By using large grey pavers paper print throughout the model, help add to the realism to my design.

 

 

 

 

To build the underground, you need to be underground. Which is not a easy thing to do on a table top.

So my first model would be Arnos Grove. A Charles Holden station known as “The brick box with the concrete lid”

 

Working on a 600mm x 400mm base board.

I began with station platform using 40mm x 20mm pine wood to creative the cutting and 5mm balsa wood creative the platform.

 

 

 

Once again printing the station walls with my computer word doc program Grey bricks, blue bricks and white bricks, logos and posters from the internet. 

 

 

Platforms in printed pavers with type lettering of “MIND THE GAP”

 

 

 

Standing on Bowes Road in the London Borough of Enfield, Arnos Grove Underground Station is arguably London's most iconic underground station, and photographs of the station and have been used extensively in the media. Of all the Underground stations designed by British architect Charles Holden, Arnos Grove is perhaps the design that represents the best of his work on the London Underground network

 

Starting with the idea, of building a model of  the London Underground, is quite daunting. Until I visited London for a holiday and saw Leslie Green’s commission 1903 tube stations up close.

 While the stations were essentially built as a full size  kits over a existing building façade, no two were identical. A metal frameworks, clade with ox blood tiles and large gold serif lettering.

 

My design began a little different to Mr Green. 
I began with a computer word program, saving pictures of windows, doors,   and logos, pasting  over scanned red brickwork, then saving  it as a PDF  This allows me to print it at any size I would require. I then glued it all to a sheet of cardboard . This was my first step toward my goal.

Since its establishment 150 years ago as the world’s first urban subway, the London Underground has continuously set a bench mark for design that has influenced transit from New York to Tokyo, Moscow to Paris and beyond.