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Wood Green tube station is a station on the Piccadilly Line , at the juction of Wood Green High Road and Lordship Lane between Turnpike Lane and Bounds Green stations, in Travelcard Zone 3 . Like all stations on the Cockfosters extension, Wood Green station which opened on September 19 1932 , set new aesthetic standards, not seen before on London´s Underground. During the planning period of the extension to Cockfosters, alternate names for this station, (Lordship Lane) and (Wood Green Central), were considered but rejected. Architecturally, this tube station, designed by the architect Charles Holden , is a well-preserved example of the modernist house style of London Transport in the 1930s . The Frontage is semi-circular and is flanked by two ventilation towers. The sub-surface areas of the station are tiled in biscuit coloured tiles lined with ? The station tunnels have, in common with those of Manor House and Turnpike Lane , a diameter of 23 feet and were designed for the greater volume of traffic expected. In contrast, Bounds Green and Southgate have only 21 feet diameter platform tunnels. The construction of "suicide pits" between the rails was also innovative. These were built in connection with a system of passageways under the platforms to give access to the track. To the north of the station is a reversing siding. This was to be used for reversing trains from the centre of London so they could proceed back towards Hounslow or Uxbridge , and until the 1990s trains were regularly turned back here. However, this was abandoned after Health & Safety laws were introduced which would have meant each train being checked before reversing via the siding - this was deemed to take too long to carry out and would delay the service. Trains now only reverse at Wood Green in times of service disruption, or to regain time after late running. In 1984 it was the site of a Provisional IRA bombing, when a device exploded on an empty train in the station which was due to pick up football supporters at Arsenal . The National Rail station now called Alexandra Palace was formerly called Wood Green; it was renamed in 1984. |
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