Summary : The original station at South Harrow opened to the south of the present station in 1903. In response to the rapid boom in new house building resulting in increased passanger numbers, work began, in 1934, on a new South Harrow station, at Northholt Road/South Hill Avenue. A reinforced concrete bridge (south of the Northolt Road bridge) was rolled into position on the night of 15th/16th September 1934, and formed the roof of a new ticket hall beneath the tracks. The ticket hall within the bridge was accessed from three points: a double entrance direct from the street on either side of the railway and one from the bus waiting room to the north. Lower walls were faced in 'No.3 dark purple' Welsh pressed bricks and the upper walls in Essex handmade red bricks laid in Sussex bond. Many of the header bricks were burnt to a dark blue-grey colour. Biscuit-cream faience slabs with ultramarine blue banding lined the ticket hall, and fluted biscuit-cream tiles edged in blue were set into the ring beam. Clerestory windows lit the ends of the ticket hall. From each end of the booking hall stairs led up to the platforms. South Harrow market occupied eight arches of the railway viaduct west of the station. |