Ghost Stations (Underground in general)

Member Name: andycharger

Product:	Underground in general
Date:	14/03/01 (212 review reads)
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Advantages: Shame to lose stations

Disadvantages: obviously ran out of use

Are you aware that on the London Underground network there are discontiued stations littering the line?
Some of you may think you are seeing things as you pass between stations, glancing at dark dingy platforms in the distance.
Well let me tell you, you are not imagining it.
Im going to describe where they are to you so you can keep a look out.

Lets start on the Central line

Central Line
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Name: British Museum.
Location: Between Holborn and Tottenham Court Road
Closed: 1933
Reason: Too close to the competing station of Holborn. Closed but used for special ops during World War 2.
The access tunnels have been filled with Concrete to provide foundations for a new building. Closed to the world.

Name
Name: Wood Street.
Location: Between Shepherds bush and White City
Closed: 1947
Reason: Lack of use after the opening of White City. Only intended to be an interim measure during the London Exhibition of 1908. Was the terminus of Central Line West for many years.

Name: Ongar/North Weald.
Location: branch Line after the new terminus at Epping.
Closed: 1994
Reason: Lack of use after modernisation of BR trains in the area. It's operated by enthusiasts of railways now. It once ran steam trains before the underground electrified the line.


Picadilly Line
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Name: Aldwych
Location: Branch Line from Holborn
Closed: 1994
Reason. The station was used as an Air Raid Shelter during WW2. opened in 1907, Aldwych formed a part of a different railway line which was alagimated in the 30's. Kept on as a peak hours service, it was shut in 1994 after the lifts needed replacing. £3 million was too much for such a low user station.

Name: Down Street
Location: between Hyde Park Corner and Green Park
Closed: 1932
Reason. Lack of use because of bigger stations nearby. It was used as a shelter for the Gover
nment during WW2. It was reinforced to take bomb blasts as well as refitted with secret war room equipment.
It was abandoned after the war.

Name: Brompton Road
Location: Between Knightsbridge and South Kensington
Closed: 1932
Reason. See above except this time it was Knightsbridge on a separate line that caused the loss in trade. Again used in the War as a Cabinet room.
Abandoned after the War.

Name: York Road
Location: Between Caledonian Road and Kings Cross
Closed: 1932
Reason. Lack of usage. It was never a busy stationand closed during the reshuffle of 1932.

Northern Line.
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Name: King William Street
Location: End of the original Stockwell line.
Closed:1900
Reason:One of the first stations on the line, it existed for a short period of time but was superceded by the Monument station.
The tunnel for the Northern line was switched to a more "Northerly" course and missed out the Station completely.
Has also been used for air raids.


Name: South Kentish Town
Location: between Northern line split after Camden Town and before Kentish Town.
Closed: 1924
Reason. Lack of use due to its proximity to Kentish town and Camden town on the same line. Like most disused stations, it was reopened as an air raid shelter in WW2.

Name: City Road
Location: Between Angel and Old Street.
Closed: 1922
Reason: Again, Lack of used due to location, it only operated for 21 years.


District Line
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Name: St Mary's
Location: Between Whitechapel and Aldgate East
Closed: 1938
Reason: The station was closed after planners decided to move the Aldgate East Station nearer towards St Marys.
It was destroyed 2 years later by a bomb dropped by the Germans.

Name: Tower of London
Location: Between Mark Lane and Tower Hill
Closed: 1884
Reason: A very short life time of op
eration. 2 years.It was built as a temporary station while Mark Lane was being built.

Name: Mark Lane
Location: between Tower Hill and Monument
Closed: 1967
Reason: It was renamed to Tower Hill in 1946 and needed replacing due to expansion. A new Tower Hill opened in 1967 and the old station was closed.

Name: South Acton
Location: Branch from Acton Town
Closed:1959
Reason. It operated mainly as a freight line until its closure. Closure came from Lack of usage.

Metropolitan Line
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Name:Lords/Marlborough Road/ Swiss Cottage
Location: between Baker Street and Finchley Road.
Closed: 1939
Reason. these stations existed as part of the Metropolitan line between 1925 and 1939.
In 1939 the nearby station of St Johns wood on the Jubilee line opened and caused the stations to close from lack of use.

Name: Uxbridge Rd
Location: Branch Line from Latimer Road.
Closed: 1940
Reason. Lack of use.

Hammersmith and City Line
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Name: Wood Lane
Location: Between Shepherds Bush and White City.
Closed:1910
Reason. This was in direct competition with the other Wood Lane station on the Central line. It was soon realised that only one was needed and it closed 2 years after it opened.

I hope you have found that interesting.
I will add more stations as I think of them or find out about them.

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