For one reason or another, many London Underground ("tube") stations have ended up permanently closed. Some were simply built too near to other stations to be useful, others just weren't used enough, or sat on lines which ended up moving. Some of the closed stations retain their original station facades, others have been demolished to make way for shops. One is now used for filming purposes.
Permanently closed stations
These stations of the London Underground and its predecessor companies (such as the Metropolitan Railway, the City and South London Railway and Underground Electric Railways of London) are now closed and, for the most part, abandoned:-
Temporarily closed stations
Closed non-tube stations
The following stations were all located at the far end of the Metropolitan Line:
Open stations with closed sections
- Highgate is an active underground station, but has a closed overground line.
The following tube stations have closed platforms:
Mainline stations formerly served by Underground trains
- Some stations beyond Upminster, formerly served by the District Line when it had a through service to Southend, now served by c2c.
Stations that never opened
Some tube stations were only partially constructed, and never opened:
Fictitious stations
The following stations are fictitious:-
- The James Bond movie Die Another Day featured a disused tube station called Vauxhall Cross; the station is supposed to be on a disused branch of the Piccadilly Line (similar to Aldwych) that runs south of the river to Vauxhall Cross, in the vicinity of the MI6 building. In fact, the Piccadilly Line does not cross the river at all.
- The film and BBC TV serial Quatermass and the Pit featured a tube station called Hobbs End. The station is located at the end of the non-existent 'Hobbs Lane'. A shot in the TV serial showed a new street nameplate reading "Hobbs End", with next to it a much older nameplate reading "Hob's End". Hobbs is the name of a well-known English cricketer; Hobb or Hob is an old name for the Devil.
- BBC soap opera EastEnders created Walford East tube station [1], which replaces Bromley-by-Bow tube station on the EastEnders tube map, to allow the locals to escape "up West" for a night out. Neither Walford nor the tube station exists.
- See also: List of London Underground-related fiction
Other underground stations
The following tramway stations are not part of the tube network but are underground:-
both stations are part of the Kingsway tramway subway
References
J. E. Connor, London's Disused Underground Stations, Capital Transport, 2001 (2nd edition)
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