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How Many Abandoned Tube Stations Are There?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ธ.ค. 2017
- There are many disused and abandoned London Underground stations on the tube network ... but how many exactly? Well, it all depends on how you define them, so here's my attempt at working it all out.
The Disused Tube Map can be downloaded (free) here: geofftech.co.u...
If you like this, then yes - there is a whole App (iOS only!) called 'Disused Tube' which has a lot more info. That's here: itunes.apple.c...
Thanks to Tom Kell for additional filming!
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These videos are fascinating. I've been to London several times over the years and I really wish I had done more exploring outside of the touristy bits.
I was terribly concerned that you didn't list the famous "Mornington Crescent" station but delighted to find with a little more research that it had been reopened. I spent many a happy hour listening to "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" and this thrills me. I shall certainly look forward to visiting it if ever I am able to visit London. Thank you for your delightful videos.
Another category to add would be repurposed stations, considering Epping Ongar heritage railway, utilises all of the old central line stations including Ongar, Blake Hall and North Weald.
I should have drunk something stronger than tea for this episode’s math. ;-)
If you ever get time; I would love to hear your views and some more detail on the surviving abandoned stations.
I quite like the way the lines are arranged on that map. They're laid out more closely to how they are in real life while still being reasonably clear. For instance, the two branches of the Northern Line run more or less parallel to each other, whereas on the normal Tube map the one to High Barnet runs North-South, which means that it initially doesn't appear to make sense that the two stations either side of Finchley Central are called East and West! Similarly, the Metropolitan branches to Amersham and Uxbridge run parallel to each other on the normal map, but this one has them pointing in directions that are much further apart like they are in real life
Abandoned things always interested me. It's probably the vastness of its emptiness next to the "creepy" vibe it gives.
It's all about Verney Junction 'tube' station! You should sometime do a tour of the Met's old stations up there, Verney Junction and Brill. Definitely try Verney Junction soon, for later this year work'll start to return the track to use- it won't be abandoned anymore and the platforms may end up being demolished!
Amazing videos all from your chanels
Isn't Charing Cross Jubilee Line more of an abandoned platform than a full station?
Oh. I was looking for it among the disused platforms. I didn't realise it was listed with the disused stations.
Maybe because the tracks were abandoned too? And possibly a concourse? Maybe Geoff sees it like Aldwych rather than like Holborn.
Thanks for giving us food for thought Geoff... I never considered how complicated that question was!
well, everyone knows tardis on earls court!(caught on the video)
It's very interesting watching this video of the Abandoned or Disused Tube Stations on the London Underground Map as I think 'Geoff Marshall' is very knowledgeable about these Ex Stations or Replacement Ones.
My favorite abandoned station is Wood Lane on the Central line and looks good (for a re-open at Wood Lane on the Central line)
For me, I would count those that have only been in use as tube stations. So the line from Amersham to Aylesbury or Upminster to Shoeburyness wouldn't count as they are still used by National Rail today. Something like Aylesbury to Verney Junction would count though. I don't know what that would come to. I can't be bothered to do the maths.
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aylesbury to verney juction is a rail line but that wasnt the original track route to verney junction though
There's also an unused platform at Barbican, it is turned into a garden.
Two disused platforms at both Barbican and Moorgate, but those were national rail platforms until they closed. Don't know if they were ever used by the tube though?
@@MKTTransportVideos They were used by the Metropolitan Railway but when they were nationalised they passed to British Rail and became the City Widened Lines service between Kentish Town and Moorgate.
Geoff, Sorry to complicate things even more, but what about a category of stations that never were stations e.g. the 2nd northern line and stations like the classic Eisenhower centre?
What about South Ealing station? When I lived in Ealing in 1984/85, the entrance or the station building was to the south of the bridge crossing the tube tracks, now it is to the north.
aylesbury the met is abandoned “in tfl’s eyes”, verney junction line of the met is demolished. brill line is demolished apparently*. quainton road and aylesbury section of the met is classified as disused due to the fact that NR operates the services that way
*westcott is disused with the station building being up and not demolished (apparently)
For Abandoned Stations, what about "Osterley Park & Spring Grove" on the Heathrow Branch of the Piccadilly Line? The platforms are still there and the station building is now a bookshop.
Didn't the District line trains also go all the way to Southend (now the c2c line)?
I do not believe this was a regular service? More of an excursion over the LTSR lines?
yes it did but it only stoppped at
leigh on sea
southend central
and shoeburyness
Line from Amersham to Aylesbury was transferred from London Transport to British Rail in 1961. Now used by Chiltern line to
Marylebone station
The East London Line was closed in 2007 and Shoreditch Station closed in 2006.
Doesnt ealing broadway have a disused station building.
Well "disused" its now a corner shop
The District Railway station building is disused but the platforms are still in use as Nos 7, 8 and 9. Access is through the 1960s monstrosity.
Wow I only just realised that Hounslow Bus Station used to be a train station. We learn something new everyday. :)
Come in a bit late on this but I used to work on LT as a driver on the Northern when Angel was an island platform and the exit was in a side street on the surface. The station has now, I believe, been altered and the island platform is gone, the station entrance and exit have been relocated around the corner into Upper Street/Islington High street, (Where a cinema used to be and now has a shopping mall taking the space). Just saying. This just demonstrates the never ending change in the London landscape above and below street level.
The stations past Epping on the Central Line! That goes into the end category along with the former Northern City/East London lines.
For the Abandoned Platforms section, there is also Charing Cross for the Jubilee line.
What about the old Ealing Broadway station building?
What about Ongar, North Weald and Blake Hall Underground stations, I know there is a heritage railway but they used to be underground stations
I think that Edgware was demolished to make way for a shopping centre
What about Strand and Trafalgar Square. Are they just part of Charing Cross?
Do stations that were proposed but never opened, such as those on the Bushey Heath extension of the Northern line count (such as Brockley Hill, on which work was begun but never completed)? To add to the complications, there were also stations such as Mill Hill (The Hale), Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Alexandra Palace, Cranley Gardens and Stroud Green, which were intended to be connected to the Northern line and made into tube stations (albeit on the surface) but never saw this service and are now disused as well. As if that wasn't complicated enough, there's also half of Highgate station (AKA Highgate High Level station) that served this route, that's now also abandoned, while Highgate remains open as a tube station.... Yeah, I apologise for complicating things further
City Road's surface building has now been demolished and is being replaced currently with a power station
I am 68 and to my knowledge City Road has never had a station on the surface. I come from just along City road and all it ever had was the top of a lift shaft machine room, with a tiny sub-station next door.
Just to add to the confusion, there's then vague definitions of what counts as what kind of station. For example under Abandoned Stations, there's North Weald, Blake Hall and Ongar - all of which are still technically active as part of the Epping Ongar Railway, but of course it being a preserved/heritage line now it isn't used by the LU network anymore. Feels weird calling them 'abandoned' stations though as North Weald and Ongar are still very much active on running days!
Of course Blake Hall on the EOR is quite disused, unless the guy who lives in it counts! You can briefly see it in my video here at 5:00 th-cam.com/video/RxrVVBfFEyA/w-d-xo.html
So would they kind of fall into the same category as those stations on the Overground that used to be part of the Tube?
Central line, epping to ongar branch aswell!
There's no Platform 5 at Watford Junction as that used to be where the Bakerloo Line used to stop so there's an abandoned platform at Watford Junction
I think it would be a good idea to rename Tower Hill to Tower of London, or just Tower, I'd guess the current site is at least as close to the Tower as the original station was. Maybe when they move the Tower Gateway DLR terminus to join as I understand is planned
Never heard anything about moving Tower Gateway - they only rebuilt it a short while ago. Where did you hear that?
Current Tower Hill station, at platform level, is the same place as “Tower of London” station
There was a station on a different site 1884-1967 called “Mark lane” then “Tower Hill” was just north of All Hallows’ by the tower
Aldwych might be the most famous abandoned tube station, but I only heard about it when I studied at King's. 24 years after I first moved to London. Guess I didn't get about much. 😅
Geoff have you heard thatt they may get the bakerloo line back up to watford junction
Sadly, the remains of City Road have now been knocked down.
So here's a philosophical question: Should Gloucester Road be counted in the "Disused Building" category? The original Metropolitan Railway building is still in use but the Leslie Green building that was added later isn't (there's a flower shop and a cafe in it now).
Hornchurch is my local tube station and it has a fence where c2c trains go and has a platform
Likewise the District used to run to Windsor and Southend.
Loved disused platforms & "ghost stations" surprisingly it was Sherlock (BBC) peaked my interest in this topic
Ealing Broadway has a disused station building next to the one that is still in use
Now this is what I wanted to know
Was there not also Post Office station between Bank and Chancery Lane on the Central line? I have an image of the 1931 map, and it’s clearly shown on that. I have no idea which of your five categories it would fall into, but I’m guessing that the platforms are still there…
Post Office got renamed and is now called St Paul's. It is still in use.
Wood Lane is now on the circle H&C line
Would South Ealing station fit into any of these categories? The station building on South Ealing Road used to be on the left hand side of the bridge over the line, however, it was rebuilt on the right hand side sometime in the 1980s? There are images on google of the original building.
So that's why Preston Road looks so weird from street/bridge level.
British Museum on the Central Line still had its platforms to be seen if the tube goes slowly enough
I have fallen in love with our Tube Network from following you on youtube, I think you should write a book, a mammoth task I know, but one that I am sure would be well received. And even though this video came out Pre Covid, and assuming you see this during Covid, well.....you may have the time?
thanks Michael, very kind! i DO already have a tube book out, it's here! : www.bookdepository.com/London-Underground-50-Things-See-Do-Geoff-Marshall/9781912836253
@@geofftech2 Thank you Geoff, book on the way.
Well that was extremely interesting
Gosh this is great; I wish someone did this for New York
Ask and yeh shall receive;
Abandoned completely
City Hall Loop
Worth Street
18th street
91st street
Myrtle Avenue
Special case
Sedgwick Ave
Jerome Ave
Replaced
South Ferry
Special case
Court Street (home of the Transit Museum)
When you get to closed platforms is where the list gets long.
42nd- Port Authority
Chambers street (JZ)
City Hall (BMT Broadway Line)
Brooklyn Bridge
Canal
Bowery
Bowling Green
Union square
96th street
Myrtle Ave-Broadway (JMZ)
Columbus Circle
Atlantic Avenue
9th Avenue
and when you consider demolition of the old El lines, I’d be here all day typing.
what about wilsden green and neasden for the met?
What about Mornington crescent?
Wow 50 was a good guess
I liked the video it's amzing
Northfields and Little Ealing? I had no idea little Ealing was a thing
More info about Park Royal and Twyford Abbey
HI Geoff. I really enjoy all your films about London underground. I was just wondering if you could answer me for one of my question please. There are some strange lights between Kings Cross St. and Caledonian Rd station on a Piccadilly Line. Every time when i take this train i can see some lights (like on some tunel or something) and it looks like a lights for 2-3 tunnels to somewhere. Have you noticed it as well? Any ideas what could it be? Hope you'll help me somehow.
Ohh... and these 3 tunnels(?) are closer to Kings Cross (and to KC direction).
Thank you so much :)
that's York Road abandoned station en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Road_tube_station
shown here! th-cam.com/video/zOLQ3GqfNrQ/w-d-xo.html
What about the stations that were built or partly built but for one reason or another were never open to the public, kept for private use, or not connected to a rail system. There are a whole slew of these on the now Northern line & at least a couple that are covered under the UK war powers act
Then you have Willesden Green and Neasden with disused Metropolitan Line platforms
My question is if the district Line trains went to Windsor where is the station
the entire line to windsr still exisrs roday
How many abandoned tram stops are there in London?
None. Trams have only been operational since 2000
You completely forgot the disused Jubilee Line platforms at Charing cross.
Quite a few of those stations still exist so they aren't abandoned. You need a broader term such as "abandoned facilities".
What about the Jubilee platforms at Charing Cross?
would you count the unfinished northen line extention that didnt complete because of the war
Blake Hall on the Ongar line is another interesting example, as a disused station on a section of line that's now in preservation. You can briefly see it filmed from a passing train in my video of the Epping Ongar line here (go to 5.00) - th-cam.com/video/RxrVVBfFEyA/w-d-xo.html
Geoff i can't download the map
One million unused, disused tube stations in London. I counting them.
You forgot to say neasden and willesden green have old metropolitan line platforms
I missed aldwych it was one of my favourite least used station evan brill
Wood Lane was in demolished section and even it should be on replaced station section
Now is a Circle H&C line
Confused as to why Swiss cottage counts as an abandoned platform when the station's very much in use...
there was an original metropolitan line Swiss Cottage station, that is now abandoned. the jubilee line one came later...
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Do they sell them? Seems like a great building for a hotel.
The sites might well be good for something. The buildings wouldn't be. (Certainly not for hotels I'm sure. It can be very difficult to get everything you need for a modern hotel into old buildings. And many old hotels are abandoned because of the difficulty to retrofitting them with modern plumbing, better accessibility, large-enough rooms, etc.)
If the buildings are heritage-listed it may be almost impossible to find a new use that is economical and acceptable.
Comment on a video that's now a year old, oops... but one of my favourite websites is this one, which has photos of many of the old stations (and the locations of the vanished ones) with their histories. www.abandonedstations.org.uk/
What about Strand?
Wasnt there Addison Road opposite Olympia?
Renamed to kensington(Olympia)
Could be a Monty Python sketch ?
What about shoreditch geoff
theres a diffrent platform at holborn to go to aldwych
If anyone is interested in have a 1948 tube map sorry underground map showing planned extentions that never happened
the link is giving a 404 error :(
I never knew that my local station was a dissued station.
The tube map looks weird when it is drawn like a normal map.
Any chance of an Android app?
Wood Lane is dirty like New South a ferry in 2014
I feel like reused stations dont count as abandoned because they’re still being used.
Won’t bank be one in a couple of years ?
They aren't closing anything, are they? Just creating a new concourse with entrance and passageways. (The platform that will be closed will be subsumed by expansion of the other one I think.)
British Museum anyone? Surely that must count too? Nice vid though.
Dave Bateman British Museum is mentioned at 1:28 as a demolished station.
Hand up, I missed that. Dunno why. Though it was odd. New glasses needed...
Why did they close the Jubilee line platforms @ Charing Cross during the extension of the JLE to Stratford???
They were no longer needed.
The trains take a different route now - including Charing Cross as a station between Green Park and Westminster would (I presume) not have been feasible due to geographical restrictions. Instead the trains now branch off in a different direction after leaving Green Park to get to Westminster (although the branch to Charing Cross and platforms are still in existence but not used for regular services).
I really don't get why everyone forgets about the Brill and Verney Junction branches of the Met
most of those stations woulf fall into the demolished catagory
the line between amersham to aylesbury would go into the replaced catagorie
quainton road waddesdon would go into abandoned platforms
8=22, who else gets the reference?
“Disused building”
DID THEY GO TO EALING BROADWAY BACK THEN YOU CHEEKY ONE!
You forgot king William Street
My interpretation would be reused stations dont count only abandoned hence the name ABANDONED just my 2cents
Why, London? Why?
Alice Caroline Why not?