A few yards up the Kingsway from Holborn tube station lies a strange strip of road that seems to belong to an earlier time era. As you peer through the railings of the now permanently locked gates, you will see a strip of cobbled roadway leading down to a dark and seemingly disused tunnel. But what's most striking about this road is not the cobbles - it's the railway that shares the road space. Closer examination will show that between the rails lies a conduit, which was originally used to supply power to the trams that originally used this roadway

 

 

Kingsway Holborn become Russell Square Interlink
 

Now bring back the past the new Russell Square Interlink is built. Linking the underground to the new sub terrain  tram ways giving pedestrian new Leisure areas, walkway and art exhibits.

 

 

The new double-decker trams reflexing the yesteryear of London tramways with the new green “CARRY ON AND GO GREEN” fully electrical solar trams.

Jump on and off using the  oyster card  transport system.

Building the tramway in a stream punk way, the new underground tram station. Although not incorporated into the model yet. I build the station with over ground entrance not unlike the Holborn entrances of the past. Once completed it will sit neatly in front of Russell Square Underground train station

Exiting in the sunlight at Bloomsbury square gardens and of course the famous Kingsways

London Underground rolling stock

London Underground trains come in two sizes, larger sub-surface trains and smaller deep-tube trains. Since the early 1960s all passenger trains have been Electric Multiple Units (EMUs) with sliding doors and a train last ran with a guard in 2000. All lines use fixed length trains with between six and eight cars, except for the Waterloo & City line that uses four cars. New trains are designed for maximum number of standing passengers and for speed of access to the cars and have regenerative braking and public address systems. Since 1999 all new stock has had to comply with accessibility regulations that require such things as access and room for wheelchairs, and the size of location of door controls. All underground trains are required to comply with the The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non Interoperable Rail System) Regulations 2010 (RVAR 2010) by 2020.

Stock on sub-surface lines is identified by a letter (such as S Stock, used on the Metropolitan line), while tube stock is identified by the year in which it was designed (for example, 1996 Stock, used on the Jubilee line).
 

I have decided to build a few London underground rolling stock to use in the back ground and in siding throughout the layout.

So far the prototypes are still a bit rough but good to home my skills.

1973 stock Piccadilly line

2009 stock Victoria line

 

WHAT TYPE OF ROOF?

 

To build the depot was not the hard part.

What type of roof was the question.
Do I do Art deco,1950’s 1960's or Modern.

Art Deco

 

 

First came  my attempt at  Art Deco.

As you can see I built it in bold green, red and grey, but it did not look right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1950’s

 

 

My second choice  was the 1950’s trolleybus depot style.

Built in white brickwork,  towering lead framed glass windows  with bold    transport logos.  

Still not right. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1960’s

 

 

 

 

 

Third choice was the 1960's bus depot.

Too boring and  did not look right with  the 1930's café next door

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Modern

 

 

 

 

 

My Fourth and final choice was base on the 2010 West Ham Bus Garage,

which blended in with both the 1930's train station and bus café

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      

BAKER STREET

 is a station on the London Underground at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road. The station lies in Travel card Zone 1 and is served by five different lines.

It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world's first underground railway, opened in 1863

History

Metropolitan Railway (now Metropolitan line)

Baker Street station was opened by the MR on 10 January 1863 (these platforms are now served by the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines).^[On 13 April 1868, the MR opened the first section of Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway as a branch from its existing route.This line, serving the open-air platforms, was steadily extended to Willesden Green and northwards, finally reaching Aylesbury Town and Verney Junction (some 50 miles/80 km from Baker Street) in 1892. The MR station mainly competed for traffic with Euston, where the LNWR provided local services to Middlesex and Watford, and later with Marylebone, where the GCR provided expresses to Aylesbury and beyond on the same line.

Over the next few decades this section of the station was extensively rebuilt to provide four platforms. The current Metropolitan line layout largely dates from 1925, and the bulk of the surface buildings, designed by architect Charles Walter Clark, also date from this period.

 

 

 

History

 

Metropolitan Railway (now Metropolitan line)

Baker Street station was opened by the MR on 10 January 1863 (these platforms are now served by the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines).On 13 April 1868, the MR opened the first section of Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway as a branch from its existing route.his line, serving the open-air platforms, was steadily extended to Willesden Green and northwards, finally reaching Aylesbury Town and Verney Junction (some 50 miles/80 km from Baker Street) in 1892. The MR station mainly competed for traffic with Euston, where the LNWR provided local services to Middlesex and Watford, and later with Marylebone, where the GCR provided expresses to Aylesbury and beyond on the same line.

Over the next few decades this section of the station was extensively rebuilt to provide four platforms. The current Metropolitan line layout largely dates from 1925, and the bulk of the surface buildings, designed by architect Charles Walter Clark, also date from this period.