British Museum
Location
Place	Holborn
Local authority	Camden
History
Opened by	Central London Railway
Platforms	2
Key dates	Opened 1900 Closed 1933
Replaced by	Holborn tube station
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It was opened on 30 July 1900 by the Central London Railway with its entrance located near the junction of High Holborn and New Oxford Street. In December 1906, Holborn station was opened by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway — now the Piccadilly Line — less than a hundred yards away. The lack of a direct interchange was due to intense competition between the two companies, but with the amalgamation of the lines under a single management in 1933 it was decided that it would make more sense to combine the stations. is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... For the medical meaning of central line, see central line. ... Holborn Bars, built as the headquarters of the Prudential Assurance Company, is one of the most striking buildings on High Holborn. ... New Oxford Street is a shopping street in Londons West End, an eastward continuation of Oxford Street proper from St Giles Circus to Holborn. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Holborn tube station Decorated metal panels on Central Line platforms at Holborn, near the British Museum. ... The Piccadilly Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

How British Museum tube station might have appeared on the London Underground Map if it were still open to passengers today

The possibility of an underground passageway was initially mooted, but the idea suffered from the complexity of tunnelling between the stations, and the long walking distance it would involve (no-one considered moving walkways at the time). Holborn station was, in any case, better situated than British Museum, as it had better tram connections. It was decided to add Central Line platforms to Holborn and close British Museum. The station was duly closed on 24 September 1933, with the new platforms at Holborn opening the following day. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Original Tube Map by Beck The Tube map is the commonly-used name for the schematic diagram used to represent the lines and stations of the London Underground. ... A moving walkway, moving sidewalk (in the US), moving pavement (elsewhere), walkalator, travelator (colloquial name, not to be confused with Trav-O-Lator®, a registered trademark of United Technologies), or moveator is a slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally or on an incline in a similar manner to an... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

British Museum station was subsequently re-used up to the 1960s as a military administrative office and emergency command post, but it is now wholly disused. It can no longer be accessed from the surface and the surface building was demolished in 1989. The platforms have now been removed, thus lowering the entire tunnel floor to track level. This portion of the eastbound tunnel is now used by engineers to store sleepers and other parts of track, which can be seen from passing trains. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Ferroconcrete sleepers A variant fastening of rails to wooden sleepers A railroad tie, cross tie, or sleeper is a rectangular object used as a base for railroad tracks. ...

The station in popular culture

British Museum Tube Station in 2004

• The station was mentioned in the 1972 horror film Death Line, but contrary to popular belief, it is not the station portrayed in the film as being the home of a community of cannibals descended from Victorian railway workers. The cannibals venture out at night to snatch travellers from the platforms of operating stations and take them back to their gruesome 'pantry' at an incomplete station. Donald Pleasence stars as the investigating police inspector, and when finally cornered, one of the cannibals screams a corrupted form of "Mind the doors!", obviously having picked it up parrot-fashion from the guards on the Underground trains. The station in question is named simply 'Museum' and is clearly stated as being 'between' Holborn and British Museum stations in a conversation between Pleasance's character and a colleague (played by Clive Swift), and is supposedly part of a completely separate line that was not completed due to the company building it going bankrupt. Signs in the abandoned station also only state 'Museum' as the name.

Nationwide Building Society at the location of the former British Museum tube station

• The station did feature in the Bulldog Drummond spin-off film Bulldog Jack (not a Sherlock Holmes film, as some sources claim), as the location reached by a secret tunnel leading from the inside of a sarcophagus in the British Museum. The villain (Ralph Richardson) was finally cornered and forced into a sword duel on the disused platforms, which were a studio set. The station was renamed 'Bloomsbury' in the film.

• In Neil Gaiman's novel Neverwhere, the British Museum tube station features briefly.

• The station briefly featured in the computer game Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror, in which Nico Collard escapes from the British Museum and finds the station. She then manages to stop the passing trains.

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External links

• Underground History: Deep Level Lines
• Abandoned Stations - British Museum
• London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Station platform in 1900
  • British Museum station, 1930
  • Disused eastbound platform being bricked-up for use as air-raid shelter, 1941

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