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Brixton Tube station is a station on the London Underground . Located at the southern end of the Victoria Line , was opened on July 23 , 1971 . It is located on Brixton High Street , and is about a three minute walk from Brixton Railway Station (on the London Victoria to Orpington line, operated by South Eastern). From the ticket hall, three escalators take passengers to and from the platforms. There are also passenger lifts between street level, the ticket hall and the platforms, but at the time of writing these were out of service. The station was briefly closed for Asbestos removal in 2006. Brixton is the southern terminus of the Victoria Line . The station is laid out as a two-track terminus with a scissors crossover north of the station, and the line continues for a short distance south of the station platforms to form a pair of sidings. These are used for the overnight stabling of a pair of trains which then form the morning's first two northbound services. There have been rumours of plans to extend the Victoria Line past Brixton and put in a loop which trains would run around with a single-platform station under Herne Hill mainline station, speeding up operations on the line by reducing the number of conflicting train movements at the scissors crossover. A poor replica of Brixton tube station was featured briefly in the TV show Lost in the episode "Fire & Water", which aired in 2006 . The token placement of a red telephone box, black taxi cab and a London Underground sign indicates the scene was most likely shot on a Hollywood studio backlot. |
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