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Abandoned Tube Stations (Pt.2)
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2016
- 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...
To download our map of all disused tube stations in London, click here: assets.londonis...
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.
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
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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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.
2:55 - Amazing looking triangled shape house across the road.
This sir, is grade A premium infrastructure history porn. Thank you!
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!”
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!
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
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!
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 UA-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.
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 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.
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.
Sensational Architecture. We have a 'few' abandoned Stations here in Australia.
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🤣)
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!
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.
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!
Love a Geoff Marshall video when I can't sleep. Geoff's the cure 👍
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
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 :)
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
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.
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.
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.
Rogue male by G Household (1930's) gives a great description on how Aldwych worked
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!!!
4:21 Some say those shoes are still hanging to this day
They probably still are.
I am so glad you educate, yet make us wonder and want to search these sites Kudos
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
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
If you're gonna mention old disused enterance, should have gone to have a quick peek to Highbury & Islington. Love that building.
One would half expect for there to be a Devil Station somewhere, as a counterpart to Angel Station.
As always, a marvellous but rather short video. We want more!
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....
Very interesting and watchable as ever, many thanks Geoff.
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/
Little unknown fact: Aldwych station was used in the video for Firestarter by The Prodigy
Wonderful, Geoff. Thanks for posting.
Insightful and quite amazing, very professionally produced, good work well done!
I've read a book about the tube called "One Stop Short of Barking" which says there used to be station called British Museum and when it closed in the 1930s The Times offered a reward to anyone who would spend a night in the station which was said to be haunted by the spectre of an Egyptian mummy.
Sounds like a cool movie plot
Really superb video. Enjoy watching these.
Ah, Wood Lane. I used to play in there as a child, late 50/ early 60s.
Great video and fantastic research Geoff.
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.
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.
One of the places i love to visit is the disused passage to the old lift shaft at Piccadilly Circus station.
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
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.
Absolutely fascinating.
The abandoned station between Aldgate east and Whitechapel was called St Mary's. The entrance was near the east London mosque.
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.
Nice to see mention of Fulham Broadway station. Here is a site on UA-cam where you can see what it was like before the destruction (type this into UA-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.
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.
Oh yeah, I want to go to London and discover old tube stations now!
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
Fun Fact: Go to Charing Cross and go to the entrance to the bakerloo line trains you see a blue door ask the workers to go in and they will give you a tour whats inside it!
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Geoff: Aldwych
looks like the former City Road station building has been completely demolished
As I had to go nearby for several years I used Aldwych station many many times before it closed
My mum used to Commute through Aldwych in The early 1980s!
Crazy that all those tube stations are not being used - just puts more pressure on the ones that are , same story to a lesser extent on the Uk motorway system , a lot of slip roads have been sealed off which makes for a longer car journey/ more congestion and more miles when you do get to the motorway. Imho they could make a lot more joiner roads on/ off which would make local congestion through towns a lot less - typical uk
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.
I had hoped to see the inside and platform levels of the stations. A future video? Thanks.
Some of the old abandoned stations I want to buy and renovate!
Fantastic work as always!
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.
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!
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!
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
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.
Very informative geoff
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)
Thank you Geoff!
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.
Keep them coming Geoff!
When I was changing all the locks at Kings College back in 2012 I found a secret entrance into Aldwych/Strand Station.. I opened a under stair cupboard door to discover a very tight space with a wrought iron spiral staircase that led down to the secret platform that was believed to be used to store treasures from The British Museum during WW2... on many occasions during the 3 months I worked there would just go and have a little stroll around the station just for the hell of it, however one day when I sneaked down I got caught because they were filming scenes for one of the Fast and Furious movies!!!
Look at Pedley St, Shoreditch now. Heartbreaking.
Thank you so much!
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?
Interesting. I would like to see what some of the other platforms look like,
I love these. Do more please.
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.
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!
Excellent quality as usual🤘
Amazing! I'm a BIG fan of your channel. Considering coming to Paris and doing a few shows here?
Great clips. Very informative
Don't forget Strand station on the Northern Line. Check it out on old tube maps.
The District Line to Southend? I live at the other end (Richmond), and Upminster seems a long way off - but Southend?!
The C2C, as you follow the line past Leigh on sea and Southend to Shoeburyness it starts to look very London underground like, just at ground level obviously
I believe they at one point used to put a Steam Locomotive on the front of the Tube Train and then hauled into Southend Central and on the return they did the opposite.
I believe it ran from early 1900s to 1939.
Aldwych was in a Tomb Raider game.
Don't forget that Aldwych was also a playable level in the game Tomb Raider 3, when Lara came to London to seek for one of the pieces of the artifact. This might also partly explain its popularity. I doubt if the level design was actually truthful to how the station looks in real life, though.
It really freaking wasn't, it was a f***ing underground Clapham junction (just kidding, it had 4 platforms, for some reason, at least two of them were in island configuration, and there was an escalator down to them, no lifts, so level was called that purely for sn atmosphere, since game was released just four years after real station closure)
Wow I didn’t realise London was so big... born & raised in Yorkshire Dales
Kenzie’s Toy Box! 20 to 30 miles across depending on how you measure it with 1 in 8 of the UK population
You missed the old Highbury and Islington station building!