St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) tube station shortly after its closure in 1938 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 facade, others have been demolished to make way for shops. One is now used for filming purposes.
Permanently closed tube 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 tube stations - Heathrow Terminal 4 tube station (Piccadilly Line, between Hatton Cross and Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3, closed until September 2006)
Closed non-tube stations These stations were all at the far end of the Metropolitan Line:
Open stations but with closed sections - Highgate tube station is an active underground station, but has a closed overground line.
These deep-level stations have closed platforms:
Stations transferred to mainline railways - Former Bakerloo Line stations beyond Harrow & Wealdstone, now served by Silverlink services:
- Headstone Lane station
- Hatch End station
- Carpenders Park station
- Bushey and Oxhey station
- Watford High Street station
- Watford Junction station
Tube stations that never opened Some tube stations were only partially constructed, and never opened: - Bull and Bush tube station works (also known as "North End"); on the Northern Line between Golders Green and Hampstead)
- Harefield Road and Denham; on the abandoned extension to Denham of the West Ruislip branch of the Central Line
- Brockley Hill, Elstree and Bushey Heath; on the abandoned extension to Bushey of the Edgware branch of the Northern Line
- Mill Hill (The Hale); on the extension to Edgware from Finchley Central (formerly Finchley North End) on the extension of the Northern Line from Highgate to High Barnet
- Stroud Green, Crouch End, Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill and Alexandra Palace; on the abandoned branch to Alexandra Palace
Fictitious stations - The James Bond movie Die Another Day features a disused tube station called Vauxhall Cross; however, this is a fictitious station. 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 feature a fictitious tube station called Hobbs End. The station is located at the end of the fictional 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] (http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/backstage/albert_sq/map_locations/albert_sq_walfordstation.shtml), 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 exist.
- See also: List of London Underground-related fiction
Other underground stations Not part of the tube network but still stations which were underground were both part of the Kingsway tramway subway
References J. E. Connor, London's Disused Underground Stations, Capital Transport, 2001 (2nd edition)
External Links - http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/
- http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/
- http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/
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