Arnos Grove tube station is a tube station on the Piccadilly line, in Travelcard Zone 4. It is located near Arnos Park on Bowes Road, London N11 1AN. Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and outdoor signs. ... The Piccadilly Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map. ... Travelcard Zone 4 is the fourth outward zone of Transport for Londons zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London. ... St Stevens Tower - The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben London (see also different names) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

The station is one of the Charles Holden-designed stations on the Cockfosters extension of the line, making a unified architectural set with similar stations like Wood Green and Bounds Green. It was opened in 1932. The name was chosen after public deliberation: alternatives were 'Arnos Park', 'Bowes Road', and 'Southgate'. Charles Henry Holden (12 May 1875 - 1 May 1960) was an English architect known for his designs of stations on the London Underground railway system. ... Categories: Piccadilly Line stations | London Underground stubs ... Bounds Green tube station Bounds Green tube station is a tube station on the Piccadilly line. ...

The ticket hall is cylindrical, and contains a now disused ticket office in the centre. This now houses an exhibition about the station and line.

Three parallel train tracks pass through the station, with two double-sided platforms positioned between the central track and the outer tracks. The edges of the platforms are labelled platform 1 and 2, and platform 3 and 4, respectively, in such a way that the two outer tracks are accessible by platforms 1 and 4, and the central track, usually used by trains that turn round at Arnos Grove station, is accessible via platforms 2 and 3. Platforms 1 and 2 are designated for trains to Cockfosters, platforms 3 and 4 to Central London.

Other interesting things about the station include:

• The current (2005) Piccadilly Line train announcements were recorded by an Arnos Grove driver.
• Arnos Grove had a station cat (which was apparently called Spooky).
• Some signs are in a 'petit-serif' adaptation of the London Underground typeface Johnston Sans. This type-face was designed by Charles Holden and Percy Delf Smith.

Nearby places: 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and some outdoor signs. ... In typography, a typeface is a co-ordinated set of character designs, which usually comprises an alphabet of letters, a set of numerals and a set of punctuation marks. ... Johnston printing blocks Johnston (or Johnston Sans) is the sans-serif typeface used throughout the 20th century for lettering on London Transport: London Underground and London Buses. ...

• Southgate
• Muswell Hill
• Bounds Green

Southgate is a place in London, split between the London Borough of Enfield and the London Borough of Barnet west of Chase Side. ... Muswell Hill is a place in the London Borough of Haringey. ...

External links

• Charales Holden memorial website
• A picture of Arnos Grove tube station

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