Abandoned Tube Stations (Pt.2)
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- Geoff continues taking us on a street walking tour of some of London's abandoned tube stations in these two videos. Make sure you've watched Part 1 as well: • Abandoned Tube Station...
Go to the Hidden London section on the Transport Museum website to buy tickets for abandoned stations, now including Down Street, Euston, Hampstead, Charing Cross and Aldwych: www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/hi...
To download our map of all disused tube stations in London, click here: assets.londonist.com/uploads/2...
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I spent 6 months working at KIngs College changing all the locks to every door, I was given a master key and would often spend my break exploring all the little nooks and crannies and one night I opened a nondescript door underneath a set of stairs and found a wrought iron spiral staircase in a very tight shaft, I ventured down, walked thru a very dark area full of rubble and enventually ended up in a fully lit Strand/Aldwych station to discover they were currently down there filming for Fast And Furious 7 I believe... Was incredible because I was wearing a hi-vis no one stopped me or questioned me so I walked around the set!!!
That'd be F&F _6_, apparently. Awesome stuff, though!
When I was a Chorister in 1949/51 at the Kings Chapel of the Savoy - just off the Strand - living in Ealing I would travel by Central line, through White City (site of the 1948/9 (?) Olympics and just as the train is about to go underground on your Left is a spur and at the end of that spur (you could just make it out if you were quick enough) are the platforms of Wood Lane Station. One Sunday I took a photograph of that unused Station. But I digress. I would get off the train at Holborn and catch the Piccadilly line to Aldwych Station where I would get on one of the two lifts up to the Aldwych. Sometimes I would go on the District Line from Ealing Broadway, to Victoria Station (now named Embankment Station), There I would get on a Tram. The Tram went along the Embankment and I would get off just before in dived into the Kingsway Tunnel. I also went to the Festival of Britain - of course! Wonderful.
That seems so cool!
Wow so cool!
Wow, that's really cool!
I wonder how many times they've seen Geoff on CCTV and thought, "He's at it again!"?
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Be lucky your not filming Sydney Trains station. Even if you film a little bit of a security camera, bench, bin, or any infrastructure on Sydney Trains. You will get an angry staff member, marching up to you, to take away your phone and hit you. And then be kicked out by a screaming staff member because “Your helping terrorists”. If you don’t leave, the Police will assist you by dragging you to the police car in front of the whole community, and then be charged with trespassing and being an assistant to terrorist’s . Then not getting a job ever again as now you have a criminal record! And you get a fine, community service, and jail! What fun for filming a station bench!
Thanks for doing this - I once found an unused dead end platform (like Aldwych) at Kings Cross/St. Pancras when I used the tube around 1976/77 when working in London I snuck through a do not enter door which was not locked properly. Great days.
Hm. Aldwych. I went to King's College in the mid 1970s and used Aldwych to commute from my residence hall. Immediately above the Surrey Street exit was King's reprographic unit, a bunch of old, large Xerox machines. I looked out of those windows many a time.
The classics department was above the Strand entrance, as I recall.
Imagine getting the District Line to Southend, that would boost the airport figures a tad...
Jack Mison Used to be special excursions using LTSR lines.
@@entername_ it’s greater anglia their slow service probably cost people their holiday a few time 😂
All the way from Windsor to Southend and vice versa - nice.
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2:55 - Amazing looking triangled shape house across the road.
Love how easy you make it look getting trains into the background of virtually every shot, bet it wasn’t quite as straightforward as it appears.
Love it. Never even knew about 'City Road Station'. Really enjoying this series. Can't wait for part 3 (presuming there will be a part 3)!
Cheers,
Matt
There is no Part 3, as per the description.
Ah, just noticed. Such a shame.
Unfortunately, that's the end.
@@Londonistvids you should do abandoned stations on the National Rail network
Chanced upon this pair of videos, and although I'm from deepest Cornwall, I spent some time in London in my 20s. A fascinating insight into these stations, a couple of which I have spotted by accident myself. Snappy, informative and with some excellent camerawork. Well done!
It's been more than fifty years sinse I lived in London or have even visited and this has been really entertaining. A terrific series thanks for showing them.
i want to hug londonist channel. and staff. one day i'll be back in London and will remember all these facts and look for them. Thank you for your videos!
Fabulous stuff. I've been watching Secrets of quite a few Underground Lines and the Overground the DLR and part 1 and 2 of this video and thoroughly enjoyed every one.
Thanks for a very enjoyable afternoon.
These are great, thanks. As a Londoner I've been past many of these and not realised their history!
“Jerry the crazy train man is on the CCTV cameras again!”
Insightful and quite amazing, very professionally produced, good work well done!
I enjoyed the videos, i did my research on disused station during my teens and had the pleasure of visiting Aldwych on the last day of operation on 30th September 1994 and Shoreditch on 9 June 2006.
I am so glad you educate, yet make us wonder and want to search these sites Kudos
Everytime I go passed Marlborough Road on a train I try to imagine it in used because the staircase to the long gone platform is still there.
I'm thinking of doing a "Secrets of the (insert color) Line" kind of thing in Boston. 3 Heavy rail and 1 light right with 4 branches would give me many interesting facts to point out. Abandoned Stations would be hard though as there are none that survive as they were all steel elevated ones and there is only minor clues today that point them out. Abandoned and disused exits could work though...
If you do it please post a link here
These two videos are excellent .. I love anything to do with old London and used to live near the disused line in Hammersmith that would connect to the now demolished viaduct over Hammersmith Grove
As someone who commutes through London around once a month to visit friends in Essex, this is quite interesting to learn about and I have now started to look for all of these hidden gems on my journey.
This sir, is grade A premium infrastructure history porn. Thank you!
Wait... WHAT?
Sensational Architecture. We have a 'few' abandoned Stations here in Australia.
Wonderful, Geoff. Thanks for posting.
Was afraid for a second that this was going to be another rickroll, but my fears fortunately never subsided. Great video! Keep up the good work.
Geoff Marshall No I found the video through a TH-cam notification and thought that maybe Londonist had gone to quite a bit of effort to catch us all out by actually uploading a rickroll, thankfully not though.
Very interesting and watchable as ever, many thanks Geoff.
What a great video. (or pair)
Underground London fascinates me, and I bought a copy of the original LT map showing the disused stations.
A couple of noteworthy points, The Bull & Bush was the deepest station on the system, (and Hampstead Heath still is) due to having to go deep enough not to interfere with the tree roots on the heath. The Brompton road station still has a large white rectangle painted on the wall at the end of the platform. This was used as a projection screen for newsreel movies when the station was used as an air raid shelter during the blitz.
Hampstead Heath is indeed the deepest station on the system today (in distance below ground level) yet the very next station, Golders Green, is in the open!
As always, a marvellous but rather short video. We want more!
Great video, thank you. We went out searching west London a few years ago, looking for the old Brompton Road station, and the disused tracks between Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush, using a modern map and an old 1930s one, and it was really interesting to see the changes.
Geoff, all your videos are preconfigured.
This is requiringly good
Great video and fantastic research Geoff.
Rogue male by G Household (1930's) gives a great description on how Aldwych worked
i've been taking trains for years in london and cardiff, i haven't ever cared to be honest but it's quite interesting, thanks Geoff :)
Aldwych Station is mainly used for filming scenes on the tube, the 3 car train still moves up and down the track. V for Vendetta 2005 movie is one of the films shot at this location. Also the Tomb Raider with Lara Croft gained its graphics from Aldwych Station.
That level in TR3 was pain in the ass... Though next one, wss even more... (And I have to admit that ot was hilarious when Lara get hit by a tube train🤣)
Really superb video. Enjoy watching these.
00:58 I see the invaderwashere guy has left a David Bowie inspired Pacman Ghost on the wall above the street sign!
Disused station between Euston and Mornington Crecent. Eversholt street? Also, there is another station between Hampstead and Golders green. All on the Northern line
Love a Geoff Marshall video when I can't sleep. Geoff's the cure 👍
Come to think of it, in London, they already closed down the tube stations in the times when some capital cities hadn't yet had their own tube at all 😳
And they have more disused stations than some cities functioning.
That's so... Magnificent!
One of the places i love to visit is the disused passage to the old lift shaft at Piccadilly Circus station.
If you're gonna mention old disused enterance, should have gone to have a quick peek to Highbury & Islington. Love that building.
Fantastic work as always!
I don't know if this is still the case, but as of two years ago the old Shoreditch station was being used by Hot Tub Cinema for a number of their events. I was able to go to a couple of them and it was always fun to know that I was in an old tube station.
I had hoped to see the inside and platform levels of the stations. A future video? Thanks.
Amazing! I'm a BIG fan of your channel. Considering coming to Paris and doing a few shows here?
When the old Shoreditch Station was still in use you could through the buffers and see where the track could connect to the lines into Liverpool Street.
Not mentioned but should note that at King's College next to Strand station, if you're having a lecture on -3 in the strand building. You can hear trains when they terminate at Holborn and come into Aldwych
Great clips. Very informative
My mum used to Commute through Aldwych in The early 1980s!
South Ealing is one of those where they rebuilt the station building on the other side of the bridge and completely demolished the old, once it was done.
City Road has now been totally demolished and they're working on building a power station that uses heat from the tube tunnels in its place
I'm not sure if you know this, you probably do, but a segment in the Madness film "Take It Or Leave It" was filmed at Aldwych but it was disguised as Euston for the film.
Thank you Geoff!
Excellent quality as usual🤘
I remember the old Wood Lane station building very short walk down from the current station. Unfortunately they demolished it when they built Westfield 's.
As I had to go nearby for several years I used Aldwych station many many times before it closed
Oh yeah, I want to go to London and discover old tube stations now!
Was in Holborn last year and I have only just realized that those blocked steel doors in the corridor towards the central line platforms, lead to the old platform!!!
Remembering the old shuttle at Strand station, it was a handy service until it was closed from Holborn, I would go directly from Holloway Road, never took the tour, one day I might - who knows.
Love your vids Geoff, you really know your stuff !, Question, i used to live in London 1989-1990, i had a friend that i used to visit once in a blue moon at Highgate, when i looked it up on Google Earth, the street level tube station that i remember isn't even there !, i remember it looking like a Leslie Green style building, am i remembering it wrong ?, have you any info or pics of what it looked like 1989 ?, any chance of doing a vid on this station ?, again many thanks for you wonderful informative video's.
I love these. Do more please.
Top work as always!!
The abandoned station between Aldgate east and Whitechapel was called St Mary's. The entrance was near the east London mosque.
it's quite interesting that so many stations closed in the 1920's and 30's. Have any abandoned stations every been re-opened?
I guess the East London Line between New Cross / New Cross Gate and Whitechapel, which was converted to the London Overground. Also, many stations on the Overground, including Dalston Junction, used to be on British Rail.
@Fola A The old Shoreditch tube station closed in 2006, but the other part of the ELL was still open. The rest of the ELL closed in 2007, and then re-opened as part of the London Overground's East London Line, in 2010. Note, however, that the old Shoreditch station was not re-opened, and instead a new station called Shoreditch High Street opened near the sight of the old Shoreditch station.
Yes Wood Lane station by Shepherd Bush tube station was close for many many many years then re-opened 7 or so years ago when they built the WESTFIELD shopping centre.
@@nicodo123 Yes, Dalston Junction was on the North London Railway with its splendidly dilapidated Terminus of Broad Street. I used to spend a lot of time at Broad Street just before it closed - just for kicks. I also bought a book at Her Majesty's Stationery Office aptly titled NORTH LONDON RAILWAY ISBN0 11 290273 1 it cost me £3.50p !! Ha-ha!
Mill Hill East wasn't exactly abandoned, but did close temporarily to facilitate work on the aborted Northern Heights project. It reopened in 1941 to improve transport access to a nearby military barracks. The rest of the line beyond it carried the occasional goods train for over twenty years but passenger services were never reinstated, and that portion of the line was closed altogether and dismantled in the sixties.
Keep them coming Geoff!
Look at Pedley St, Shoreditch now. Heartbreaking.
Ah, Wood Lane. I used to play in there as a child, late 50/ early 60s.
One would half expect for there to be a Devil Station somewhere, as a counterpart to Angel Station.
Is there a list anywhere of stations that may have reopening potential? Some are clearly gone for good but some Id suspect may have a case to reopen at some stage in the future.
Great work BTW!
4:21 Some say those shoes are still hanging to this day
They probably still are.
There's other stations like Loughton - the current building is the third station serving the town but the other two are long gone.
Very Interesting, Good Coverage!
I went to Aldwych station yesterday. I had been to the rather dissapointing Transport Museum and I knew it was nearby so I went and took some pictures of it.
Fascinating.
Marlborough Rd Station was for many years a Chinese Restaurant called Lords Rendezvous.
Massive great big building is still there but empty.
What a waste
Ah...but where is Marlborough Road?
Absolutely fascinating.
Nice to see mention of Fulham Broadway station. Here is a site on TH-cam where you can see what it was like before the destruction (type this into TH-cam):
Significant Contrasts At Fulham Broadway Station
Put up by citytransportinfo
Very nostalgic for me as I had just moved to London and used to commute from there to Blackfriars in 1962, as I had digs across the street in Cedarne Road - also since demolished.
I visited London in 1993 and went to Aldwych. I can't really remember why, but probably because who can resist a weird one-station branch line? IIRC the list was ancient and crowded.
Very informative geoff
Little unknown fact: Aldwych station was used in the video for Firestarter by The Prodigy
Don't forget Strand station on the Northern Line. Check it out on old tube maps.
Interesting. I would like to see what some of the other platforms look like,
In Helsinki, we really don’t have abandoned stations, but we do have lots of abandoned platforms. On the City Rail line between Pasila and Tikkurila, almost every station has some. The most obvious ones are Oulunkylä, with it’s huge platform 1 sign, and Malmi, where they sometimes announce ”Varokaa ohittavaa junaa raiteella 2” but there is no platform 2, as both stations only have 3 and 4.
Some stations were dug but have never been in use: In Kamppi and Hakaniemi under the existing line and in Munkkivuori (also said to be the oldest metro station in Finland) and the newly dug station in Pasila. Also the Kaisaniemi station was dug in 1981 but only opened in 1995.
Some pictures of the disused platforms (Finnish text) juhanan.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Ei+käytössä/
Another way to see Aldwych Station is to watch Patriot Games or V for Vendetta. The station is a favorite for filmmakers because it is isolated from the Underground network, so they can get an authentic London feel in a movie without disrupting the network for the filming schedule.
Film makers also really like Jubilee's Charing Cross, it's half abandoned, trains still terminate there at times, but without passengers (they throw everyone's arses out of the train at Green Park, so JL's CX is basically a siding)
As an avid Mornington Crescent player, the annotated Rules & Decisions of 1927 by Col. P. W. Ffidlington and Rev. A. O . Springboek, thank you very much, I would humble inquire about the possibility of making a video including two of my favorite London tube stations? Dollis Hill and Mornington Crescent..
A reader of Private Eye as well.
I have seen people mentioning that ex-Jubilee tracks and tunnels ended up very close to Aluwyn. I wonder how feasible is it to finish the tunnels and run a short shuttle service there?
When Angel Station was refurbished they replaced the lifts with what are the longest escalators in Western Europe at 197 feet long with a vertical rise of 90 degrees it takes around 1 minute 20 seconds to traverse from top to bottom.Also at around 5.15 with Moorgate's former Great Northern and City Branch where the Moorgate Disaster happened on the 28th of February 1975 where a six-car Northern line train of 1938 stock smashed into the end wall of the tunnel 42 passengers died along with the driver the one person who could have solved the mystery as to why the train failed to stop but instead continued under full power
Maybe you could make a video about the metropolitan and district line country stations? info can be found on the met but very little about the district
Some of the old abandoned stations I want to buy and renovate!
Wonderful videos. Cheers buddy.
Aldwych was called The Strand as it was built next to the old royal Strand theater
R32 R33 R36 R42 R46 R44 R62 R68 R40 R40M INFO More probably because the road there is "the Strand"; so called because it used to be a strand next to the Thames before the river was embanked.
i wonder, if Aldwych Station ever would have seen proper service from Cockfosters, or at least from Finsbury Park instead of the shuttle from Holborn, if it would still be open today....
You should be on the telly, great video.
The one that I ill forever be curious about is at Camden. At the northerly end of the northbound station there is an electric schematic on the wall which shows a branch off to the right with an eventual termination. I have never otherwise found any information on his
Interesting about Angel - I guess the original building had access to the platforms by lift, and the new building being some distance away allows for that lovely long escalator (is it still the longest in Europe? )
There is a programme around called Heart of the Angel, BBC 1989, about 50 mins long. They were there filming a day in the life of the staff that worked there, and you get to see the whole station as it was before they redeveloped it. Very interesting. It might be on youtube
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Geoff: Aldwych
No mention of the British Museum station? I see it on the map at 5:48, but you never talked about it.
I've wanted to have a look at that ever since I read Neverwhere.
You can visit aldwych underground station and gym inside
You can get tours of Down Street and Euston now, not just Aldwych
£100 though... :-o
not of euston any more
@@cindyhastings2434 I'm going next weekend, Euston tunnels are definitely accessible through a tour, and the tickets were not that bad price-wise!
3:19. I used to use the old Fulham Broadway station building.
Me too.. so you'd also remember when hammersmith broadway had the same architecture as the old fulham broadway
Wayne Williams long forgotten, will have to Google it to jog the memory. I used to use the Angel tube with its island platform, remember it all in detail, rebuilt in 1992.
geoff ought to do a video on the history of the old necropolis railway
So what's the building on the corner of Kingsland road and Shoreditch hi st called "the old Shoreditch station? Overground?