Closed London Underground stations

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Image:Closed tube station.jpg 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 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 is now used for filming and exhibition purposes.

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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:

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Permanently closed non-tube stations

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

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Open stations with closed sections

  • Highgate is an active underground station, but has a closed overground line.

The following tube stations have closed platforms:

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Mainline stations formerly served by Underground trains

  • Some stations beyond Upminster, formerly served by the District Line when it had a through service to Southend, now served by c2c.
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Stations that never opened

Some tube stations were only partially constructed, and never opened:

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Stations to be closed in the future

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Stations that were planned to become part of the Underground

The above Northern Line extension to Bushey was part of the Northern Heights plan 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:

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Fictitious stations

The following stations are fictitious:

  • The James Bond movie Die Another Day featured a disused tube station called Vauxhall Cross. This 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 closest that it comes is Hyde Park Corner tube station, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) to the north-west. However, Vauxhall tube station on the Victoria Line is within about 100 metres.
  • The film and BBC TV serial Quatermass and the Pit featured a tube station called Hobbs End. The station is located at the end of the non-existent '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; Hob is an old name for the Devil.
  • BBC soap opera EastEnders created Walford East tube station [1], which replaces Bromley-by-Bow on the EastEnders tube map, to allow the locals to escape "up West" for a night out. Neither Walford nor the tube station exists - except on the EastEnders' set.
  • The second episode of the 1979 LWT comedy series End of Part One includes the main characters watching a film called "The Life of Christopher Columbus". In the film, Columbus goes to a tube station and asks for a train to America, but is told he can only go as far as Catford. Part of a modified tube map is shown which shows the fictitious tube stations Lewisham, Ladywell, Edge of the World and Catford on the East London Section of the Metropolitan Line south from New Cross tube station. There is an actual part of the mainline Mid-Kent Railway that interchanges with New Cross tube station, and the stations are, southwards in order: St. John's, Lewisham, Ladywell and Catford Bridge (Catford on a different line interchanges with the latter).
  • 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. A special 'Crouch End' tube station sign was made for this scene and, according to Pegg's DVD commentary, is now mounted in his bedroom. In reality, the nearest stations for Crouch End are Highgate and Finsbury Park. Crouch End is a district well known for the number of actors living there.

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Other underground non-tube stations

The following tramway stations were not part of the tube network but were underground:

both stations were part of the Kingsway tramway subway

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See also

Renamed London Underground stations

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References

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

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External links

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