Newbury Park tube station

The second in the exciting new (occasional) series 'my favourite underground stations' is Newbury Park which is situated at the eastern end of the Central Line. To be entirely accurate it's not the underground station which is the interesting part of Newbury Park station, it's the adjacent bus station. It was designed by Oliver Hill, and opened on 6 July 1949. Distinguished by the copper covered barrel-vaulted roof, the structure, now 'listed' as being of architectural merit, also won a Festival of Britain architectural award in 1951.  The rest of the station's proposed reconstruction was not completed due to lack of money - plus ca change!