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 facades, others have been demolished to make way for shops. One is now used for filming purposes.

Permanently closed 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)

Temporarily closed stations

• Heathrow Terminal 4 (Piccadilly Line, between Hatton Cross and Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3, closed until September 2006)

Closed non-tube stations

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

• Waddesdon Manor
• Quainton
• Granborough Road
• Winslow Road
• Verney Junction
• Wescott
• Wotton
• Church Siding
• Wood Siding
• Brill

Open stations with closed sections

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

The following tube stations have closed platforms:

• Charing Cross (Jubilee Line)
• Holborn (Aldwych branch of the Piccadilly Line)
• Euston (both branches of the old Northern Line tunnels, before both were realigned for the construction of the Victoria Line)

Mainline stations formerly served by Underground trains

• Stations beyond Amersham, formerly served by the Metropolitan Line now served by Chiltern Railways:
  • Great Missenden
  • Wendover
  • Stoke Mandeville
  • Aylesbury

• Stations beyond Ealing Broadway, formerly served by the District Line, now served by First Great Western Link:
  • West Ealing
  • Hanwell
  • Southall
  • Hayes & Harlington
  • West Drayton
  • Langley
  • Slough
  • Windsor & Eton Central

• Some stations beyond Upminster, formerly served by the District Line when it had a through service to Southend, now served by c2c.

• The Northern City Line (Great Northern & City Railway), formerly part of the Northern Line, now served by WAGN:
  • Essex Road
  • Drayton Park

• Stations beyond Harrow & Wealdstone, formerly served by the Bakerloo Line, now served by Silverlink:
  • Headstone Lane
  • Hatch End
  • Carpenders Park
  • Bushey and Oxhey
  • Watford High Street
  • Watford Junction

Stations that never opened

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

• Bull and Bush (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 following stations are fictitious:-

• The James Bond movie Die Another Day featured a disused tube station called Vauxhall Cross; 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 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; Hobb or Hob is an old name for the Devil.
• BBC soap opera EastEnders created Walford East tube station [1], 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 exists.

See also: List of London Underground-related fiction

Other underground stations

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

• Aldwych
• Holborn

both stations are 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/