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Ruislip
UNDERGROUND STATION London Transport
Amazing
"Underground" Web Site
Preface:- Ruislip Station was 100 years old on 4th July 2004. To celebrate
this fact Ruislip Online would like to share with you all a picture of the most
stunning piece of ephemera that probably exists about this celebration. Below
are scans front and reverse of what is reputed to be the first EVER ticket
issued on this section of the then Metropolitan Railway. Click on image to enlarge It goes without saying that Ruislip Online would wish to
express thanks to David Ive for kindly letting me have copies of this ticket. Ruislip - Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines
Ruislip Online would wish to point out that all the text
above is copyright to London's Transport
Museum and would wish to express unreserved thanks for their help in
compiling this page. Why don't you visit
their excellent web site?
Ruislip Station
Station Approach
RUISLIP
HA4 8LD
from the link above
Ruislip Online would wish to point out that all the text below is copyright
to London's Transport Museum and would
wish to express unreserved thanks for their help in compiling this page. Why
don't you visit their excellent web site?
The station was opened on 4 July 1904 by the Metropolitan Railway on its
branch to Uxbridge. It was also served by the District between March 1910 and
October 1933, when services were transferred to the Piccadilly Line. The
station remains substantially as built.
Wooden wonder
Features an Edwardian all-timber signal cabin, one of only four remaining on
the Underground (the others are to be found at Woodside Park, Chorleywood and
Chesham stations).
1904 - 1910
The station was opened by the Metropolitan Railway on 4 July 1904, and was the
only intermediate station on the line from Harrow-on-the-Hill to Uxbridge.
The station building was very similar in design to the original station at
Uxbridge, and remains substantially unaltered today. The architect is believed
to have been Matthew Garbutt. There were two platforms, 325 ft long, connected
by an iron lattice footbridge.
A small goods yard was provided to the east of the station on the London-bound
side, with facilities for coal and cattle and a dock from which road vehicles
could be put on and off trains. There was no goods shed. A signal box was
provided with 24 levers plus 3 spare.
The station was situated about half a mile below what was then the remote
village of Ruislip.
Passenger traffic was light in the early years, the station seeing most
activity in late spring, summer and early autumn, when daytrippers from London
came to enjoy the countryside.
The station was served by trains of the District as well as the Metropolitan
from 1 March 1910, although the District had run some special services the
previous summer.
Architect
1904 Matthew Garbutt
Believed to be the original architect
Engineer
1904 E P Seaton
Consulting Engineer
1904 A W Pearson
Resident Engineer
1904 Walter Atkinson
1904 R Wells
Assistant Engineer
Contractor
1904 Bott & Stennett
Main contractor
1904 Abbott and Son
Sub-contractor - carpentry and joinery
1904 C & R Hill
Sub-contractor - plumbing, painting and glazing
The station building is a large, single-storey red brick structure, and is the
only one of the original stations on the Uxbridge line to survive virtually
intact. It is superficially similar to such stations as Amersham and Chalfont
& Latimer, but has a more advanced design and greater visual impact,
although one source describes it as 'staid'.
There is a large porch in front of the entrance, with corbelled cast-iron
brackets supporting a modern corrugated metal canopy. The entrance doors are
original. The high semi-circular door openings and windows feature segmental
brick arches with stone details. The roof has been retiled, whilst the once
prominent chimneys have been reduced in height, with one having been removed
altogether.
The booking hall has a very high exposed timber-lined roof and truss. The
green-painted timber panelling on the walls to dado height is original, but
has been damaged in places.
The eastbound platform has changed little since the station opened, and
retains its original valanced canopies supported by fluted cast-iron columns
and hooped design brackets. The westbound platform has a modern steel-framed
waiting area with utilitarian brickwork, although the platform canopy has a
timber valance to match that on the eastbound platform.
The lattice-framed footbridge which connects the platforms dates from the
opening of the station, although the pitched corrugated-iron roof and lower
level timber panel infills date from the resiting of 1928-1929.
Original 1930s platform roundels survive, as does the disused signal box at
the east end of the westbound platform, complete with its levers.
