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Post by diffusion on Sept 14, 2022 10:43:00 GMT
Are there any interesting things to find on the network.
Things such as disused stations, platforms, disused tunnels and the like which you many be able to get a glimpse of when actually on the tube. One in particular is the disused jubilee tunnel to Charing Cross.
Although I appreciate in the dark might be a little tricky!
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Post by AndrewPSSP on Sept 14, 2022 12:46:53 GMT
When I was travelling from Liverpool Street mainline I managed to catch a very brief glimpse of Shoreditch station
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Post by DWS on Sept 14, 2022 12:51:23 GMT
The Jubilee Line tunnel to Charing Cross is not disused, trains travel empty from Green Park if it is needed to short trip a train .
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Post by trt on Sept 14, 2022 13:53:15 GMT
I've always quite liked the carriage crane point behind Waterloo station, where you can look down into the depot.
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Post by spsmiler on Sept 14, 2022 14:08:31 GMT
I've always quite liked the carriage crane point behind Waterloo station, where you can look down into the depot. I think there is now a barrier to prevent people from getting too close. This applies to both the tube and subsurface networks Barons Court station building Piccadilly line non-stop trains passing District line 'all stations' trains between Hammersmith & Acton Town Bow Road station being partly in tunnel and partly in open air The Jubilee line part of Westminster station has metal chequer plate style flooring that creates the ambience of being on a ships' cargo deck Things like disused platforms are usually sealed off and inaccessible (eg: Aldwych branch platform at Holborn) but unless things have changed very recently the disused platform 5 for the former South Acton branch is still visible from the eastbound District line platform at Acton Town. But note, platform 5 was very short as the branch usually only had a single car train. If you are interested in notable architecture there is far more of note than I mentioned above. Simon |
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Post by diffusion on Sept 14, 2022 14:33:30 GMT
The Jubilee Line tunnel to Charing Cross is not disused, trains travel empty from Green Park if it is needed to short trip a train . Ah yes sorry I meant disused as in not in passenger service use. |
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Post by selbiehouse on Sept 14, 2022 16:46:34 GMT
I recently travelled on the Northern Line southbound from High Barnet. After Kentish Town it is possible to determine when passing through the site of South Kentish Town station.
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Post by towerman on Sept 14, 2022 17:12:09 GMT
There’s quite a few disused stations:York Rd,DownSt & West Brompton on Picc.Bull & Bush,South Kentish Town &City Rd on Northern.Mark Lane(Tower HIll),Aldgate East on District.Lords,Marlborough Rd & Swiss Cottage on Met.Probably more that others may mention.
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Post by DWS on Sept 14, 2022 20:08:03 GMT
I've always quite liked the carriage crane point behind Waterloo station, where you can look down into the depot. The crane is not able to lift the Waterloo & City line cars, when cars need to be removed large road cranes have been used. |
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Post by trt on Sept 14, 2022 20:54:43 GMT
Indeed. Same hole in'th ground though!
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Post by cudsn15 on Sept 15, 2022 8:42:33 GMT
There are quite a few youtube video's done by various amateur historians/sleuths/presenters etc which cover these and many more interesting or obscure or just plain trivial nuggets of historical and often idiosyncratic information. You can quite happily wile away a few hours falling down various "Rabbit Holes" as the term is called when you chain watch videos related to the subject you have just been viewing.
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Post by elsombernie on Sept 15, 2022 11:04:40 GMT
I believe that the old water tower in still in place between the District and C2C tracks just west of East Ham.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Sept 15, 2022 11:21:56 GMT
I believe that the old water tower in still in place between the District and C2C tracks just west of East Ham. only the stem, the tank was removed in 2019 |
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Post by rapidtransitman on Sept 15, 2022 14:04:26 GMT
There are quite a few youtube video's done by various amateur historians/sleuths/presenters etc which cover these and many more interesting or obscure or just plain trivial nuggets of historical and often idiosyncratic information. You can quite happily wile away a few hours falling down various "Rabbit Holes" as the term is called when you chain watch videos related to the subject you have just been viewing. Jago Hazzard has informative & entertaining such videos. Also searching for 'ghost underground station London' will provide a number of possibilities. There are even maps of ghost stations around the Underground network on the internet. |
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Post by miff on Sept 15, 2022 14:17:16 GMT
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Post by spsmiler on Sept 15, 2022 17:37:13 GMT
The disused platforms from the former British Museum Central line station can be seen near to Holborn station (on the western side towards Tottenenham Court Road station)
For a different type of 'disused' there are the signs on the westbound platform at East Ham advertising a tea room where a cuppa will cost 2d. Also at this station there is a stairway to a disused passageway over the tracks - you can climb the stairs but at the top are closed doors. Several disused platforms can be seen on the LT&SR side (London Tilbury and Southend Railway) of the station. One of these adjoins the platform used by westbound District line and Hammersmith & City SubSurface trains (which strictly speaking are not tube trains). Also there is a filled-in trackbed for the former island platform used by eastbound trains. This was used by trains to St Pancras via what nowadays is known as the London Overground Gospel Oak - Barking Riverside 'Goblin' service. East Ham is one of the stations where the Southend Corridor Express trains (Ealing Broadway - Southend-On-Sea) used to switch between electric and steam locomotives.
Many stations on the route to Upminster have disused sections of platform. There are two reasons for this:
1) For many years most stations had platforms for both District trains and those of what for simplicity I shall call the 'mainline' railway company that built and owned the route but when British Railways electrified its trains (in 1962) they also stopped serving all stations except Upminster and Barking. Admittedly even before this they very rarely served these platforms. btw, West Ham's platforms used by C2C are 'new build' - the platforms here were destroyed during WW2 and reinstated a few decades ago
2) London Transport trains have almost always been much shorter than mainline trains so portions of the platforms that are no longer served have been sealed off to passengers. Plaistow eastbound is an exception - because of the bay platform.
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Post by stapler on Sept 17, 2022 15:23:28 GMT
The very first part of the present Underground network to be commissioned as a railway line was Leyton to Loughton. This stretch contains a lot of antiquities, including in-use 1856 buildings at Snaresbrook and Woodford, and the remarkable station house at Buckhurst Hill, taken out of use as long ago as 1892, and the bay platform at Snaresbrook, not used since WW2.
There's also the trackbed walk from the disused but mothballed Loughton Junction power box 600 yds up to the site of the original Loughton terminus, abandoned 1865.
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Post by stuartroy on Sept 21, 2022 15:50:24 GMT
Check out the Hidden London Hangouts series on youtube, put out by the LT museum. Lots of titbits to whet the appetite there.
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Post by zbang on Sept 21, 2022 17:43:57 GMT
Geoff Marshall has a book of "Tube Station Trivia"; picked up a copy at the LT museum in Covent Garden.
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Post by orienteer on Sept 30, 2022 15:07:20 GMT
There are conducted tours of disused stations, run by the London Transport Museum; see their website for details.
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