There's growing public interest in opening up previously hidden parts of subterranean London - from… Several tunnels are over a century old: the original Thames Tunnel was the world's first underwater tunnel. The existence of a secret network of Cold War-era tunnels beneath central London can be confirmed by recently-released Land Registry data, Who Owns England can reveal.
It closed 80 years ago and fell into the hands of the Ministry of Defence. The tunnels of Down Street. Updated 16th Dec 2017 with post-script on Birmingham's secret tunnels.
Geoff takes us on a street walking tour of some of London's abandoned tube stations, in this two-part series.
Find out more about London's disused Underground stations. Abandoned London Underground Stations can be found across the English capital. Photo: vinnievaz Explore the abandoned tube tunnels that lie beneath the city.
London has many ‘ghost stations’, tube stops that once welcomed passengers but are now out of use. Lord's was a London Underground station located in St John's Wood, north-west London..
The London Underground tube network has 270 stations, but even before the coronavirus crisis drastically reduced the number of passengers and trains, another 50 … London is home to countless disused tube stations, steeped in history. The table below lists many of the tunnels under the River Thames in and near London, which, thanks largely to its underlying bed of clay, is one of the most tunnelled cities in the world.The tunnels are used for road vehicles, pedestrians, Tube and railway lines and utilities. This post is by Guy Shrubsole.
Only bits of others remain, buried deep below the ground, or barely visible out of the windows of trains passing by.
Some of them are visible in plain sight, dejectedly propped up on busy street corners. There are 270 functioning stations across our network, but at least 40 Overground and Underground stations still in existence are no longer used for travel.
DAVID SAUNDERSON highlights some of the most interesting. They have many tales of ghost sightings and eerie occurrences in the miles of abandoned underground tunnels.
Haunting photographs have revealed the long-forgotten abandoned London Underground stations that lie deep below the city. Mercifully, I’m not talking about actual dead people (because, eww), but abandoned tube stations. Perhaps the most interesting is Brompton Road near the V&A, formerly on the Piccadilly Line. London is a city littered with corpses.
Subscribe to the channel to be first to see Part 2 next week. The number of places available for tours of disused Tube stations, including Churchill’s “secret station”, has been trebled after soaring public demand.