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PHOTO RUISLIP GARDENS UNDERGROUND STATION STATION BUILDING - A PALE SHADOW OF THE HOLDENESQUE STATION ORIGINALLY DESIGNED. (CENTRAL LINE) RUISLIP GARDENS UNDERGROUND STATION (CENTRAL LINE) 28 AUGUST 2026. IN 1903-06 THE GWR OPENED THEIR NEW NORTH MAIN LINE (NNML) FROM OLD OAK COMMON WEST JUNCTION (EAST OF THE GWRâ��S ACTON MAIN LINE STATION AND SOUTH OF THE CENTRAL LINEâ��S YET-TO-BE-BUILT NORTH ACTON STATION) TO NORTHOLT JUNCTION (TO THE SOUTH OF SOUTH RUISLIP STATION) TO CONNECT WITH THE GWR/GCR JOINT LINE TO THE MIDLANDS. RUISLIP GARDENS WAS BUILT ON THE GWR/GCR JOINT SECTION BUT WAS NOT OPENED UNTIL AS LATE AS JULY 1934. THE BR(WR) MAIN LINE SERVICES SERVING RUISLIP GARDENS CEASED IN JULY 1958 AND THE BR STATION WAS CLOSED. INCLUDED IN THE LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARDâ��S 1935-40 NEW WORKS PROGRAMME WAS A NORTH-WESTWARDS EXTENSION OF THE CENTRAL LINE FROM NORTH ACTON TO DENHAM PARALLELING THE GWRâ��S NNML AS FAR AS NORTHOLT JUNCTION AND THENCE THE GWR/GCR JOINT LINE. CONSTRUCTION HAD ONLY JUST BEGUN WHEN WWII BROKE OUT WHEN ALL WORK WAS SUSPENDED. WHEN IT RESTARTED POST-WAR THE LINE TO GREENFORD WAS OPENED IN JUNE 1947 AND TO WEST RUISLIP IN NOVEMBER 1948 BUT THE ONWARD EXTENSION TO DENHAM WAS ABANDONED BECAUSE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LONDON GREEN BELT WHICH MEANT THAT THE LARGE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS HOPED FOR COULD NOT BE BUILT. THE CENTRAL LINEâ��S RUISLIP GARDENS PLATFORMS WERE BUILT ADJACENT TO THE GWR ONES AND A COMBINED STATION BUILDING PROVIDED. IT OPENED IN NOVEMBER 1948 BUT ONLY THE CONCRETE PLATFORM â�ˌBUTTERFLYâ�� CANOPY DESIGNED BY THE BR(WR) CHIEF ENGINEER A S QUATERMAINE HAD BEEN BUILT (THIS HAS UNFORTUNATELY BEEN REPLACED BY A MORE MODERN - AND UNINSPIRING - STEEL CANOPY). TEMPORARY FACILITIES FOR THE TICKET OFFICE WERE PROVIDED. THE ORIGINAL DESIGN OF THE STATION WAS BY DR. FREDERICK CURTISS CHIEF ARCHITECT OF THE GWR AND BR(WR) 1947-49 BRâ��S CHIEF ARCHITECT 1949-68. CURTISS WAS ASSISTED IN THE DESIGN BY HOWARD CAVANAGH â�� GWR &BR(WR) ASSISTANT ARCHITECT 1946-49 AND BR(WR) CHIEF ARCHITECT 1949-60. HOWEVER BECAUSE OF THE POOR ECONOMIC SITUATION CONSTRUCTION WAS EXTREMELY SLOW AND BY THE TIME THE STATION BUILDINGS WERE TO BE CONSTRUCTED CURTISâ��S DESIGN WAS BECOMING UNAFFORDABLE. THE PLANS HAD TO BE REVISED AND SIMPLIFIED BY ARCHITECTS JOHN KENNET AND ROY TURNER WHO DRASTICALLY REDUCED CURTISâ��S DESIGN BY CUTTING OUT THE LARGE HOLDENESQUE BLOCK PLANNED BY HIM. IT WAS NOT FINALLY COMPLETED UNTIL 1961. PICTURED IS THE STATION BUILDING - A PALE SHADOW OF THE HOLDENESQUE STATION ORIGINALLY DESIGNED. COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) H LLEWELYNPHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS
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