LURS meeting, 14th August 2001

1920s	Stingemore	Basic set of interchanges stations.
1933	Beck	Beck’s map covers a broader geographic area than Stingemore’s. Inside Stingemore’s area: Queens’ Park promoted to interchange. Outside Stingemore’s area: New Cross and New Cross Gate are interchanges.
1933/08	Beck	Watford Junction promoted to interchange
1938	Schleger	Hans Schleger demotes all thirteen stations that interchange only with BR Watford Junction Queens Park Marylebone South Acton Richmond Victoria Strand London Bridge Cannon Street Warren Street Kentish Town New Cross New Cross Gate (Willesden Junction not demoted because Schleger has drawn the BR line into the map!) Also demotes eleven Tube interchanges: Ealing Broadway Ealing Common, Northfields Acton Town Barons Court Gloucester Road Kennington Mark Lane Old Street Euston Euston Square,
1943	Beck	No change
1948	Beck	Rayners Lane and Gloucester Road promoted to interchanges
1949	Beck	Ealing Common promoted.
1954	Beck	Euston and Woodford promoted
1961	Hutchison	Harold Hutchison promotes twenty-two stations that interchange with BR only: Aylesbury Balham Barking Cannon Street Greenford Gunnersbury Kentish Town London Bridge Marylebone New Cross New Cross Gate Queens Park Richmond Strand South Ruislip Stratford Trafalgar Square Watford Junction West Ruslip Upminster Victoria Willesden Junction Wimbledon. Also promoted Aldgate East, North Acton. Introduced.open square for mainline interchanges.
1961	Hutchison	Aylesbury (BR interchange) dropped from map, but Amersham, Chalfont & Latimer, and Chorley wood promoted to BR interchanges.
1962	Hutchison	South Ruislip demoted from (BR) interchange.
1964	Garbutt	Paul Garbutt changes symbol for BR interchange from square to circle with a dot. South Ruislip promoted back to a (BR) interchange.
1965	Garbutt	Chorleywood demoted from (BR) interchange; Moor Park and Highbury & Islington promoted to BR interchange.
1969	Garbutt	Green Park promoted to interchange with new Victoria line.
1970	Garbutt	Symbol for interchange with BR changes to intercity symbol alongside Tube station. Stations that interchange only with BR cease to be circles and just have intercity symbol: Amersham Balham Blackfriars Cannon Street Chalfont & Latimer Gunnerbury Kentish Town Harrow-on-the-Hill Harrow & Wealdstone Marylebone Moor Park New Cross New Cross Gate Richmond Seven Sisters Strand Tottenham Hale Tower Hill Trafalgar Square Upminster Walthamstow Central Watford Junction West Ruislip Willesden Junction Wimbledon Also Shadwell was promoted to BR interchange. Tube interchanges unchanged. One anomaly: Barking retains its white circle although it is really only a BR interchange.

Examples of stations

Definition: ‘topological inconsistency’: two stations are topologically similar but one is an interchange and one isn’t.

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