The new Underground station at Piccadilly Circus was opened on
Monday. Only a small red and white awning on the pavement marked the entrance to one of the Most remarkable feats of engineering of the century. Through this _station 50,000,000 people will pass every year, as 4gainst onbr a mere 25,000,000 in the old Piccadilly station. A few steps lead down to a low, circular arcade. of pale brown marble with a dull white floor, in. the centre of rhich is a supporting pillar. Round it are tall bronze lamps and. bronze framed windows in which are displayed such articles of clothing as attract open-mouthed crowds • 9,10-..hejoncinn pavements. Entering from _the Hay- market end one sees on the opposite side two large tunnels, one having three and the other two flights of moving stairs with more bronze lamps down the centre—and only in an empty hall can one appreciate the weird effect of a flight of stairs coiling and uncoiling itself from inside a tunnel.
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