Abandoned Tube Stations (Pt.1)
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Published 2016-12-23
This video was originally available on the 'Secrets of the Underground' DVD two years ago, but that's no longer for sale, so we thought it was time to upload it to Youtube.
If you want to see inside some abandoned stations, goto the the Hidden London section on the Transport Museum website to buy tickets for abandoned stations tours, including Down Street, Euston, Hampstead, Charing Cross and Aldwych: www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/hidden-london
The Yoga studio at South Kentish town has since gone, and has now turned into an 'Escape Room' game - so if you want to go inside South Kentish Town tube, click here! www.missionbreakout.london/
To see a map of all disused and abanonded tube stations in London, it's here: assets.londonist.com/uploads/2014/01/abandonedstat…
All Comments (20)
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Signs: "Risk of death." "All staff and contractors are to avoid making unnecessary noise." Meaning: "If you must die, please do so quietly."
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This makes me very homesick... I love the Tube. When you live elsewhere in the world you soon realise just how fortunate we are to have such an expansive and accessible transit system, in order to get around the city of London.
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Those 1930s esque tube trains are still used on the Isle of Wight, because there's a 395 yard tunnel, which is too small to handle modern trains, if we raised it it would cause the homes above to collapse -_-
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A long time ago I worked at the Holborn underground station for students summer job. It was fun. I used to shout mind the gap, clean the station, and sometime man the checkout booth. Often used to wonder how they built this place! Amazing engineering that we take for granted. I still visit the Holborn station when I get a chance to visit UK. Thank you for putting London Underground on you tube. It is like the artery of London.
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Had a holiday in London many years ago and remember the surprise I felt the first time I went through an abandoned station on the tube. Fascinating and creepy in equal measure.
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Ongar Station was always a place I wanted to go as a wee-lad looking at the Underground map. It seemed at the end of the world!
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Why do I even watch this? I have never even been to London. Probably because it is entertaining
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Love those red station buildings. I can see something like York road reopening if that area gets a mega development. Down street needs to be a museum based on the history
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5:20 you brought memories when I had to use this toilet in emergency
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You'd think some enterprise chap would convert the old stations into coffee shops or restaurants. The architecture is fab and sooooo London
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London holds so many secrets underground. Its amazing!
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I have never ridden on the Tube as I am not from London, but I know more about it than a lot of people thanks to these videos
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Does anyone else feel like a game of Mornington Crescent? Lol!
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A subject that has fascinated me for many, many years. Nice one.
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Ongar was the favoured starting point of tours of the entire system, hopefully to set a new time record. It was customary to stay in a hotel or B&B in Ongar and get the first morning train. John Betjeman is said to have done the tour and he probably still holds the record for the longest time (whatever it was), as he is said to have got out to look around every station.
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Ahh my favorite tube series are back!!! This is the best christmas ever!!!
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Do a congar line on the ongar line
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Wow!! That was really interesting. Such beautiful architecture. Thanks for posting.
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Looking forward to Part 2 of this series. Superb video as always.
