The Anonymous Widower

Changing Trains At Brixton

These pictures are a record of changing from Brixton tube station on the Victoria Line to Brixton station for a train to Herne Hill.

Note the following.

• The Underground station is step-free, but the rail station definitely isn’t!
• Platform 1 at Brixton station for Victoria is only accessible with difficulty.
• Platform 2 is by internal staircase with artwork.
• The platforms have two bronze figures on the platforms. I’d like to see more of the bronzes in store in our galleries exhibitied on stations. You certainly couldn’t nick them from Brixton station.

The Underground station is one of the best, but the rail station is best described as unusual.

This Google Map shows the two stations.

Brixton Station

Simple it isn’t!

How complicated and expensive a new station would be depends on how many connections, you want passengers to have.

Building an Overground station in the sky would be expensive, as height always costs money.

But putting decent stairs and lifts into the existing Brixton station would be routine compared to linking to the Overground.

The only way to connect all three lines would be to rebuild the Argos building as a triple dcker station with lifts and escalators.

But it would be horrendously expensive, even if there were some shops and a lot of flats on the top of everything.

But the bulding would be well connected!

I think that the best that can be hoped for is lifts and decent stairs in the main line station.

November 23, 2015 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Brixton Station, London Underground, Trains