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There are several dozen permanently closed London Underground stations across the London Underground ("tube") network. Some were simply built too near to other stations to be useful; others experienced too little use to make their retention worthwhile, or became redundant after lines were rerouted. Some of the closed stations retain their original station façades, while others have been demolished to make way for shops. At least one ( Aldwych ) is now used for filming and exhibition purposes. A number of other stations, Charing Cross for example, while still open, have closed platforms or sections.


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:

The following stations were all located at the far end of the Metropolitan Line :

It is possible however that some of these stations may reopen eventually with the rebuilding of the Varsity Line on the National Rail network.


OPEN STATIONS WITH CLOSED SECTIONS



STATIONS FORMERLY SERVED BY LONDON UNDERGROUND


Stations beyond Amersham , formerly served by the Metropolitan Line now served by Chiltern Railways

Stations beyond Ealing Broadway , formerly served by the District Line between 1883 and 1885 , now served by First Great Western :

Some stations beyond Upminster , formerly served by the District Line when it had a through service to Southend , now served by C2c .



Stations beyond Harrow & Wealdstone , formerly served by the Bakerloo Line , now served by Silverlink . It is expected that these stations will transfer back to the Bakerloo line when management of the North London Railways franchise is transferred from the Department For Transport to Transport For London .


STATIONS PART-BUILT BUT NEVER OPENED

Some tube stations were only partially constructed and never opened:


STATIONS PLANNED TO BECOME PART OF THE UNDERGROUND


Northern Line developments

The above-Northern Line extension to Bushey was part of the of the 1930s . Part of this plan was for the Northern Line to take over existing LNER Lines in north London. This was completed from East Finchley to High Barnet and Mill Hill East but the project was halted by the outbreak of the Second World War and financial cutbacks after the war meant that the project was not restarted and a number of stations were never incorporated:



Central Line developments

Denham station was to have been the original terminus of the western extension of the Central Line but the introduction of Green Belt legislation caused the extension to be cut back to West Ruislip . The intermediate stop, Harefield Road was similarly planned but not built.


FICTITIOUS STATIONS

See Also: List of London Underground-related fiction


See Also: Fictional underground stations



The following closed stations are fictitious:



  • A deleted scene from the film Shaun Of The Dead , included on its DVD release, sees the title character (played by Simon Pegg ) attempting to catch a tube to work from the fictitious Crouch End tube station, only to find it closed. While in reality, the nearest operational Underground stations are Highgate and Finsbury Park , there had been plans before World War II to amalgamate the former LNER surface line between the two into the Underground system under the Northern Heights Plan , with one of the two intermediate stations being 'Crouch End'. A special 'Crouch End' tube station sign was made for the film scene and, according to Pegg's DVD commentary, is now mounted in his own bedroom. Crouch End is a district well known for the number of actors living there.


  • An episode of the BBC series '' Spooks '' (broadcast 23 October 2006 ) featured a fictional disused Underground station called ''Wells Lane''.


  • BBC1 Eastenders features a fictional station called Walford.



SEE ALSO



EXTERNAL LINKS



FURTHER READING

  • J. E. Connor, ''London's Disused Underground Stations'', Capital Transport, 2001 (2nd edition)

  • J. E. Connor, ''Abandoned Stations on London's Underground (A photographic record)'', Colchester, Connor and Butler Ltd., 2000. ISBN 0-947699-30-9

  • Douglas Rose, ''The London Underground: A Diagrammatic History'' (Capital Transport, 2005): ISBN 1-85414-219-4