Park Royal Station Illustrated Card

This card features Park Royal Station created exclusively by Charlotte Berridge.

All my cards are printed on 250gsm FSC approved card, supplied with a recycled envelope. They are carefully hand packaged in a biodegradable cellophane bag. Each folded card measures approx 105mm wide x 148mm tall.

All cards are blank inside for your own message.

A little history about this station…
Designed by Herbert Welch & Felix Lander, the Art Deco style of this majestic station was certainly influenced by the Underground’s principal architect Charles Holden. The most prominent feature of the station building is the tall square tower featuring the underground roundel on each side. The tower sits adjacent to the circular ticket hall. The station buildings are formed from a series of simple interconnecting geometric shapes.

Attached to the station building and across the small open space of Hanger Green are two curved three-storey retail and office buildings built in the same style as the station. The station opened on opened on March 1st 1936. 

The original station, slightly to the north or the current station, was called Park Royal & Twyford Abbey, serving the District Railway. It was built to serve the Royal Agricultural Showgrounds site which opened the same year, and from which the area derives its “Park Royal” name.  As with a number of new tube stations from the 1930s, the name of the stop changed in the years after it opened, beginning as Park Royal (Hanger Hill) before dropping the name in brackets in 1947. 

The station was awarded Grade II listed status in 1987