Probably the Finest "Tube"
St in the World Lordon, Dee.
The new underground station at! Piccadilly Circus will be formally opened to-morrow. It is probably the finest and Lest equipped "tube" station in the world. The spacious booking-hall, brilliantly Iyghted and enlivened with bright kiosks and show-eases, is enclosed by an amhulatory subway, access to the: station being by means of sev entrances from different points round the Circus, Eleven escalators serve the station and th: whole' installation is planned to cope with 50,000,000 passengers a year and a service of 1.587 tiams a day or the "rush" periods. has taken four! years to construct and has cost 50,009.
Dee. 10, the Mayor of Westminister to-day with due ceremony opened the new iceadilly Drews Underground Station, which largest of its It has taken neatly four years to construct, the cost being £500,000, and is capable of handling $0. mi Passengers a year, The Mayor of Westminster, mani-plating a small switch, lighted a lamp on a pedestal and simultaneously started eleven huge escalators,
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