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This interests me “ Pimlico station was built due to Sir Alan's perseverance”.

Is there any more information about this and rationale for the station. It must be one of the lesser used zone 1 tube stations so I’d imagine London Underground werent keen on it. Was it delayed in opening as there was a late decision to build it or was it technically difficult too?

dg writes: Wikipedia.

David | 14.09.22 - 8:16 a.m. | #

That cat put in a lot of effort to get down into a tube tunnel.

Still Anon | 14.09.22 - 8:29 a.m. | #

I remember Pimlico opening, so I still think of it as a “new” station. Pimlico - such an exotic name, compared to, say, Green Park.
I suppose there were chaps writing in mimeographed newsletters in 1972 about the opening of Stanley Heaps stations after WW1. Feeling older by the day.

Philip Downer | 14.09.22 - 8:49 a.m. | #

50 years is long enough for someone to have spent their entire working life working at Pimlico station. I wonder if anyone has. I would expect a few have racked up a good few years and maybe even retired from the station but not the entire 50 years.

MilesT | 14.09.22 - 9:04 a.m. | #

I doubt they'll be allowed to mark the anniversary of the opening because of mawkfest. So inconsiderate of them to open almost exactly 50 years before the death of a monarch.

Ian | 14.09.22 - 9:09 a.m. | #

Pimlico is efficient and calming. It does what it needs to. I love it.

Scott | Homepage | 14.09.22 - 9:39 a.m. | #

Pimlico does its job. It's the sort of station that by Zone 1 standards feels quiet, but in reality still has a decent number of passengers and is a useful asset for the area.

Mikey C | 14.09.22 - 10:51 a.m. | #

I believe Pimlico is unique on the Underground in that the station isn't owned by London Underground or Network Rail. I am told it is actually owned by the Crown Estates.

If so, then maybe it is more like Canary Wharf, which I assume isn't owned by TfL, than Bond Street.

Also, it has the same name of a former London Rail Terminus (not on or near the same site).

Pedantic of Purley | 14.09.22 - 11:08 a.m. | #

I wonder if it is more used now than pre-Covid. Pre-Covid it would have been almost impossible to get on a northbound train in the morning peak and, presumably, on a southbound train in the evening peak.

Pedantic of Purley | 14.09.22 - 11:10 a.m. | #

Also the last Victoria Line station to have the original white-on-blue platform name friezes. Needlessly replaced in 2015.

Kim | 14.09.22 - 11:11 a.m. | #

Hatton Cross also has illuminated roundels, though I'm not sure if the design is identical to those at Pimlico.

Paul Burkitt-Gray | Homepage | 14.09.22 - 11:15 a.m. | #

Sam Cullen's INNside Track blog (2013-16) covered all tube stations and a nearby hostelry for each. He intended next to cover all National Rail stations in London, but gave up after visiting West Croydon. The blog still resides at innsidetrack.wordpress.com

Ian Paton | 14.09.22 - 11:16 a.m. | #

I ought to mention a Passport.

Noel | 14.09.22 - 12:21 p.m. | #

Pimlico is also the most convenient station if you're going to the Department for Transport offices on Horseferry Road. It's not the nearest in distance but it's a nicer (and probably quicker) walk as it saves battling the crowds outside Westminster, Victoria or St James's Park.

Anders | 14.09.22 - 1:26 p.m. | #

Don’t forget it is the only underground station name not containing any letters from the word badger.

Kev | 14.09.22 - 3:01 p.m. | #

It was wonderful in 1968 when the Victoria Line opened at Walthamstow Central. It made it so much easier than the Overground to Liverpool Street, then Central Line. And it was so fast.

I later had a parking place at The Standard pub in Blackhorse Road. I used to get the train back up to Walthamstow Central, and sprint across to the southbound platform, so that I could get a seat.

I can't get over the massive new buildings all around both stations since then, seem to be endless.
Thank you for providing a wallow in nostalgia with the photos.

g.chingford | 14.09.22 - 3:04 p.m. | #

I hope the cat was ok!

Cornish Cockney | 14.09.22 - 7:07 p.m. | #

Wait behind the yellow line.

Man of Kent | 14.09.22 - 8:23 p.m. | #

Several months later here's a BBC news video about Pimlico's tunnel-cat, how he was rescued and why Mr Jingles is now living in Suffolk.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.02.23 - 8:20 a.m. | #











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