Leslie Green tiling exposed at Waterloo

When would it have been covered up?

That is a very nice shade of green - I assume that was the color it was originally picked out in - and I agree, it should be restored if possible. Did they have the station name inscribed on the platform side wall as well (like many of the other Leslie Green stations have)?

They've attempted to re-tile the Northern line platforms in faux original tiles; the pale yellow colour used on the Cockfosters extension of the Piccadilly line. The only problem is that (AFAIK) the Northern line extension to Kennington and thence to Morden would have had the same scheme as the rest of the extension... Green, white and black.

tubelines are doing the northern and always replacing things that are fine
lul wern't that bad, they did a good job on mornington crescent

I mean the plain featureless cream tiles now going on Waterloo Northern, and Warren Street Victoria, are just so out-of-place at these locations, and as for BROWN at Tower Hill? Eh?

And a lot of the finishes are appalling, see Wanstead where the green horizontal upper relief strip on the platform wall side snakes all over the place.

Plus I'd rather have new signalling and track instead of new tiles!

At Bethnal Green the tiles are all unevenly laid, it looks absolutely dire.



They really didn't. The original design had patterned tiles like at Chalk Farm or Belsize Park, LU ripped them out and put in a design with no pattern...

Believe me when I say LUL were bad, I spent almost three decades working on the system and many of those years were spent recabling modernised stations while they were being knocked about. Baker Street in 1977 was a prime example of the character of the station being ripped apart when all the original yellow tiles were removed from the Bakerloo concourse and passageways though those on the platforms are for the most part extant behind the existing finishes which are supported on expanded metal lathe and steel framing.
Embankment is another example which has been modernised several times to such an extent that the District line platforms are much less wide than they once were although the yellow tiles remain behind the current finish as do quite a few rooms. At one time the ticket hall was much larger, i.e. long before several generations of ticket office were installed.
At quite a few sites AFAIK the original finishes remain part extant in now disused areas such as at White City and Moorgate and at other sites such as Down Street, Liverpool Street, Piccadilly Circus, Euston and Tottenham Court Road but no doubt they will disappear over time as new ways are found to reuse the disused areas. A favourite use was pump rooms, sumps, ventilation etc and more modern uses include comms equipment rooms, switchrooms and later UPS switchrooms as well as staff accommodation etc.

Under LUL places like Gloucester Road had the architects touch, it looked nice but the phones didn't fit the provided cubby holes in the platform finishes, this was a constant problem with other departments having to fit their kit into unsuitable spaces. The 'grandfather' units seen at many tube platform headwalls are an example of this where installing and maintaining the clocks, cameras, phones, signals and switches was made far more difficult than it needed to be but it looked good on the architect drawings.

Much of what is seen at Baker Street these days is much later than 1970s and similarly the last update at Embankment was in the early 1990s so you are right about perception.

Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder and to some degree one has to be into art to see what the architect was aiming at. I am not such a person and was always more taken with the functionality than the artistic flourishes which quickly fade as the dust and the elements reclaim the spaces.

The station name was inscribed on the wall, but it was most unlike others; it was in green, and smaller, only 4 tiles high, and the lettering was thinner.

The tiling was progressively replaced from 1987.

Just went past the southbound platform when it was closed and the train was not stopping.

They're putting the same *incorrect* tiles that they put on the Northern line platforms.