Last year we wrote a piece on London’s lost underground stations, but now we’re following this up with a site that gives pictures inside many of them.
There are masses of forgotten London underground stations which for various reasons have been abandoned, mostly related simply to lack of people using them. You might think this is a recent problem, but in reality stations have been closing it seems since the 1930s often due to budget cuts – sound familiar?
The site is called Abandoned Stations and quite a lot of the photos were taken by the site owner between 1977 and 1981.
This source is invaluable as due to various security worries, it is virtually unheard of for Transport for London to allow anyone to go down into these underground stations any longer except engineering staff. Many of the entrances have now also been re-built over, so access would be even harder, unless you could walk the tracks overnight.
Quite a number of the stations were also shut around the time of WWII so in the pictures you get a glimpse back to a time when they were being used as air-raid shelters.
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