 Like many other central London Underground stations , Holborn was modernised in the early 1930s to replace the lifts with escalators . The station frontages on Kingsway and High Holborn were partially reconstructed to modernist designs by Charles Holden with the granite elements replaced with plain Portland stone façades perforated with glazed screens . The lifts were removed and a spacious new ticket hall was provided giving access to a bank of four escalators down to an intermediate concourse for the Central line platforms . A second bank of three escalators continues down to the Piccadilly line platforms . 
