Ghost Stations in London - Unopened Underground Stations

Kaushik Biswas 2016-03-31

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1. Alexandra Palace railway station (Muswell Hill branch)
2. City and Brixton Railway
3. Brockley Hill tube station
4. Brondesbury
5. Bushey Heath tube station
6. Camberwell
7. Charing Cross
8. Cranley Gardens railway station
9. Crouch End railway station
10. Denham railway station
11. Elstree South tube station
12. Emlyn Road tube station
13. Fenchurch Street railway station
14. Hammersmith Grove
15. Harefield Road tube station
16. Harringay railway station
17. Highgate tube station
18. Hornsey railway station
19. Hyde Park Corner (NWLR) tube station
20. Kilburn (NWLR) tube station
21. Lothbury tube station
22. Ludgate Circus tube station
23. Maida Vale (NWLR) tube station
24. Mansion House tube station
25. Mill Hill (The Hale) railway station
26. Muswell Hill railway station
27. North End tube station
28. Stroud Green railway station
29. Turnham Green tube station
30. Watford Central tube station
31. Wood Green

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_and_unopened_London_Underground_stations

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The London Underground is a public rapid transit system in the United Kingdom that serves a large part of Greater London and the home counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. It has many former stations, while others were planned but not opened. Some stations were closed because of low passenger usage rendering them uneconomical; some became redundant after lines were re-routed or replacements were constructed; and others are no longer served by the Underground but remain open to National Rail mainline services. Many stations were planned as parts of new lines or extensions to existing ones but were later abandoned.

Some closed station buildings are still standing, converted for other uses or abandoned, while others have been demolished and their sites redeveloped. A number of stations, while still open, have closed platforms or sections, such as the Jubilee line platforms at Charing Cross. The interiors and platforms of a few closed stations are among parts of the London Underground available for filming purposes, such as those at Aldwych.


Ghost stations is the usual English translation for the German word Geisterbahnhöfe. This term was used to describe certain stations on Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin's division during the Cold War. Since then, the term has come to be used to describe any disused station on an underground railway line, especially those actively passed through by passenger trains.

Closed when the current station was opened a short distance to the east to enable the Aldgate junction to be rebuilt. Terminus of Piccadilly line branch line from Holborn; closed due to low passenger numbers and cost of replacing lifts. The service was cut back to Amersham when electric locomotive-hauled trains were replaced with A60 Stock trains. Two platforms are still functional but were removed from public use when the Jubilee line extension to Stratford was opened in 1999. Closed due to low passenger numbers when entrances to Green Park and Hyde Park Corner were moved closer to its location Former Northern line Highbury Branch between Moorgate and Finsbury Park converted to main line operation[16] On a now-closed branch of the District Railway, from what is now the Piccadilly line near Hounslow East, it was closed when Hounslow East station was opened. The original platforms were to the east of the current ones; the station was moved to make interchange with main line station easier. The original terminus of the City & South London Railway, which was closed when the line was extended on a new alignment to Bank; converted for use as an air-raid shelter during the war. The Windsor service was cut back to Ealing Broadway due to low passenger numbers.

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