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Post by harlesden on Aug 11, 2010 1:22:02 GMT
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Post by abe on Aug 11, 2010 7:55:29 GMT
It was opened as South Kentish Town (although Castle Road was the name fired into the platform tiling, rather like Heath Street at Hampstead). It's passenger numbers were always low, and when there was a strike at Lots Road power station on 5 June 1924 a number of Underground stations were closed temporarily. The exception was South Kentish Town, which never reopened its doors. It is unusual in that it closed in the middle of the day, rather than at the end.
The building is clad in the ox-blood terracotta typical of stations designed by Leslie Green for the UERL, and remains in position today. It is now used as a branch of Cash Converters. The platforms were demolished c.1935.
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