| Summary : The site of the second, present Hillingdon station. The original Hillingdon station (see TQ 08 NE 55) opened to serve the Metropolitan line on 10th December 1923. The realignment of the A40 Great Western Avenue required that the wooden halt at Hillingdon - some of it comprising the original Metropolitan structure - be demolished and a completely new facility provided to the south. A limited competion was held after LUL Architectural Services Group had submitted a proposal, and in 1987 Cassidy Taggart Partnership were commissioned to build their design as part of a sizeable civil engineering programme. The steel framed station, completed in 1994, has walkways and stairs which connect with a central ticket hall containing free standing cabins for staff and equipment beneath a low pitched roof with fritted glass varied in a pattern corresponding to sun diagrams, providing equipment with maximum protection from the sun whilst still flooding the station with light. The roof is stepped down to a lower level over the platforms - reminiscent of the Victorian trainsheds - and there are waiting shelters with glass block walls. |