New tiling at Green Park

They've been putting tiles on top of tiles since the mid-1980s and thus making corridors and platforms narrower and narrower

Who is hell bent on making every station white?

I understand for the Central line (because of CLR) but why on any other line?!?!

Gaaah, so bland! And I seem to have lost the photo I took of the leaves a few months ago. Drat.

There seems to be no consistency regarding the station refurbishment programme under Tube Lines/Metronet. Do they replicate the original (to a greater or lesser degree of authenticity) as at Tufnell Park, Highgate, Bethnal Green; do they replace a later scheme roughly like-for-like, as appeared to be happening at Mile End before it all ground to a halt, do they produce a pastiche of an original design as at Oxford Circus Central Line, or do they install a bland finish with no obvious connection with the line, station, or local area - as at Tower Hill (I mean, brown relief for god's sake!) and Shepherds Bush(C). What is going on? Is there any centralised control of policy? Hopefully the credit crunch will put a stop to any new acts of vandalism. I've always thought Blackfriars late-70s platform yellow/orange tiling is cheerful and typical of its time but no doubt this too will be replaced by more bathroom tiles in a few years' time.

No they have been doing it for longer than that, Embankment is a great example of an ever narrowing platform, the District platforms are much narrower in places now than they were in the 1970s and at that time there were narrower than built, the same is also true of the ticket hall there which once was at least double the floor space.

In the late 1970s I worked on the last months of the Jubilee line Stage 1 at Baker Street, there the tiles on platforms 7,8 and 9 sit on a plastered EML mesh set off the original tiles on a metalwork frame by some 9-12 inches. This has been done elsewhere on the system for many years. You may or may not recall the discovery of the old Ovaltine posters on the original wall behind the tiles at the top of the escaltors during the 1980s Waterloo station refurbishment. It could not have happened if they had been removed rather than covered up many years beforehand!

I went past these today after getting kicked off at Green Park. The tiling design is grim, it really does look like bathroom tiling!

As of Saturday the leaves are still there. The white tiles are slowly creeping towards them though.

Today some of the orange tiles in that last picture were replaced with something grey (I imagine they removed unsound tiles). I bet there will be no leaves left in a week...

And why were Tower Hill's proto-Victoria Line bland grey tiles replaced by acres of bland white 'bathroom' tiles relieved only by strips of brown? Brown? What has that to do with the District Line or the local area? (Maybe it signifies the state of TFL or Metronet's finances - in the sh**?) Seriously, the old wooden slatted seats have been kept, all scuffed and not even re-varnished, as well as the original staircase red plastic handrails on what now leads to the exit (former) ticket hall. The perfectly serviceable dot matrix TD on the EB has been replaced by a newer one (again, why?); only this one shows "Terminates Here" when a train is approaching to terminate in the bay road! (Eh?)