About 25 years ago, Barons Court tube station in west London was painted the wrong colour, and approval has been granted to repaint it the correct colour — green.
Station entrance (c) ianVisits
The station opened in 1905 for the District line, and a year later the Piccadilly line started calling there as well. Inside the ticket hall, it’s very green, and the platforms should also be painted in District line colours, but in 1996-97, the station was repainted in a terracotta and maroon paint scheme.
Transport for London (TfL) wants to repair damaged and worn parts of the station platforms and, at the same time, correct the paint colour mistake from the 1990s.
Peeling paint on the platform shows the original green under the brown (c) ianVisits
Amusingly, as that required a planning application to permit changes to a railway station, TfL had to be consulted to check if TfL objected to TfL making changes to a TfL property.
TfL expressed no objection to the plans.
The officer’s report said that the proposed refurbishments of the staircases and platform areas, comprising like-for-like replacement of the timber elements in the canopy, associated works to strengthen the columns, replacement of cracked glazing and polycarbonate sheeting with new glass in the staircase, and general repair and refurbishment, would not result in any significant alterations to any heritage assets.
Following a planning meeting last week, Hammersmith and Fulham Council has approved plans so work can go ahead, and are likely to take place next year.
Stairs between platform and ticket hall (c) ianVisits
There’s also an unrelated but likely to be carried out a the same time application to add cameras in the canopy above the platforms — as part of the Piccadilly line upgrade programme.
Would be better for the CURRENT District Line green to be used..
District line
PMS 356
C96 M27 Y100 K15
R0 G121 B52
NCS S 3065-G10Y
TfL had to be consulted to check if TfL objected to TfL making changes to a TfL property
Gotta love some pointless red tape.
Maybe some green tape could be even more pointless
To be fair, every council in the country has to from time to time apply to itself to build stuff.
“Amusingly, as that required a planning application to permit changes to a railway station, TfL had to be consulted to check if TfL objected to TfL making changes to a TfL property. TfL expressed no objection to the plans.”
Less amusingly, TfL works for step free access are exempt from the need to publically consult so you won’t (necessarily – I asked to see mine) get to examine plans for your local station.
I can’t think of a single step-free access upgrade that hasn’t gone through the planning process — even if only as a courtesy where the railway bill didn’t rquire it.