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List of closed London Underground stations
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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.
- Aldwych tube station (a branch of the Piccadilly Line from Holborn)
- Blake Hall tube station (Central Line beyond Epping )
- British Museum tube station (Central Line, between Tottenham Court Road and Holborn
- Brompton Road tube station (Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington)
- City Road tube station (Northern Line (Bank Branch) between Angel and Old St)
- Down Street tube station (Piccadilly Line, between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner)
- Hounslow Town tube station (a now-closed branch of the District Railway, from what is now the Piccadilly Line near Hounslow Central)
- King William Street tube station (the original terminus of the City & South London Railway, a predecessor of the Northern Line)
- Lord's tube station (Metropolitan Line north of Baker Street)
- Mark Lane tube station (District and Circle Lines near Tower Hill)
- Marlborough Road tube station (Metropolitan Line between Lord's and Swiss Cottage)
- North Weald tube station (Central Line beyond Epping )
- Ongar tube station (Central Line beyond Epping)
- St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) tube station (District Line between Aldgate East and Whitechapel)
- South Acton tube station (on a short branch of the District Line)
- South Kentish Town tube station (Northern Line between Camden Town and Kentish Town)
- Swiss Cottage (Metropolitan Line) tube station (south of Finchley Road)
- Tower of London tube station (on the site of the present Tower Hill station)
- Wood Lane (Central Line) tube station (between Shepherds Bush and White City, which replaced it)
- Wood Lane (Metropolitan Line) tube station (aka White City; on what is now the Hammersmith & City Line between Latimer Road and Shepherd's Bush)
- Uxbridge Road tube station (on a closed branch linking the Metropolitan Line to Olympia)
- York Road tube station (Piccadilly Line north of King's Cross)
Closed non-tube stations
As are these stations, all of which were at the far end of the Metropolitan Line:
- Waddesdon Manor railway station
- Quainton railway station
- Granborough Road railway station
- Winslow Road railway station
- Verney Junction railway station
- Wescott railway station
- Wotton railway station
- Church Siding railway station
- Wood Siding railway station
- Brill railway station
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:
- Charing Cross tube station (for the Jubilee Line)
- Holborn tube station (for the Aldwych branch of the Piccadilly Line)
Stations transfered to mainline railways
These stations once served by the Metropolitan Line beyond Amersham station remain open as mainline stations:
- Great Missenden railway station
- Wendover railway station
- Stoke Mandeville railway station
- Aylesbury railway station
As do these on the former District Line beyond Ealing Broadway station:
- West Ealing railway station
- Hanwell station
- Southall station
- Hayes & Harlington station
- West Drayton station
- Langley station
- Slough station
- Windsor & Eton Central station
And also some stations beyond Upminster station when the District Line had a through service to Southend.
And these on the Northern City Line (Great Northern & City Railway), which now is completely absorbed into the mainline railway system:
And finally these stations once served by the Bakerloo Line beyond Harrow & Wealdstone remain open as mainline stations, served by Silverlink services:
- Headstone Lane station
- Hatch End station
- Carpenders Park station
- Bushey and Oxhey station
- Watford High Street station
- Watford Junction station
Some tube stations were only partially constructed, and never opened:
- Bull & Bush tube station works (also known as "North End"; on the Northern Line between Golders Green and Hampstead)
Fictitious closed 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 Quatermass and the Pit features a fictitious tube station called Hobbs End. The station is located at the end of the fictional Hobbs Lane. Hobb or Hob is an old name for the Devil.
BBC soap opera EastEnders created Walford East tube station to allow the locals to escape "up West" for a night out. Neither Walford nor the tube station exist.
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/