Talk:List of former and unopened London Underground stations

message: Have they announced it will never open? Because, if not, I don't understand what it's doing here. The Tube site gives no such impression. Help! Nevilley 07:56, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a mistake, I'm sure. -- ChrisO 08:15, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is Heathrow T5 on this list? 

message: I'm very sorry about the short (~no) notice. I only just saw this myself. 
At 1300 GMT tomorrow (Monday 8th March) Gresham College is doing a talk on this very subject. 
If you are in central London and can make it I suggest you consider it. I have only been to one GC talk before and it was excellent. Free, by the way. 
If you are NOT in central London then please note that there is a live webcast and then it gets archived on their site: I don't know what the delay is for this but there is an archive with plenty of old stuff in. Oh and using AOL Instant Messenger you can send in questions apparently. 
All details are at:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/
I do hope that someone else might find this interesting/helpful. If you are going to be there and want to say hello feel free to mail me from my user page - I might see it in time. Nevilley 22:23, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing this out. I am in the City today... unfortunately can not be in Holborn at 1pm. :(. Hope it is/was interesting. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 09:44, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: It was fine. The bloke (London Transport Museum boss) is a good presenter. There wasn't much in his material that you could not get from a dedicatedly nerdy reading of lots of books and web sites like what I have done BUT he presented it in an interesting manner and it would be great for the slightly less specialized audience. When they put up the webcast in their archive we should probably link it from the article. The College is great btw and has at least one more lecture on a subterranean London topic coming up. Or going down rather. It was PACKED btw. Nevilley 20:19, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  London talk tomorrow - also webcast 

message: Can somebody explain what this section is all about?. As I learnt to my cost, the Wikipedia convention is that 'tube' == 'london underground'. Now I don't particularly agree with that convention, but if we have it we must stick to it. And if we stick to it, then anything listed in this section either doesn't belong in the section (because it is a tube/lu station) or doesn't belong in the article (because it isn't a tube/lu station). -- Chris j wood 22:21, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closed non-tube stations! 

message: I don't see the point of listing temporarily closed stations - it's hardly encyclopedic, and this is neither Wikitravel nor the TfL website. -- ChrisO 22:12, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. --Frankie Roberto 15:16, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Should we list temporarily closed stations?

message: Someone added the following to the list of "Stations that never opened", but I can't find any substantiation of it:
:*Muswell Hill station, to be somewhere to the north of the lines, perhaps on the Piccadilly Line. The superstitious diggers came across a deep pit filled with the remains of plague victims; they would not continue digging the station out.
What's the source for this claim? -- ChrisO 20:21, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never heard of it. They never build stations without lines there first.. Secretlondon 13:19, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Acording to this blog post this claim is made in a recent book, Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith ( (hbk) and  (pbk)). It still seems unlikely, given that there's no actual line there, but maybe there's some more actual information in the book. --rbrwr± 14:00, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

text: Right, and that Muswell Hill was a surface station, was open for over eighty years, and was abandoned for economic and public policy reasons. The question is, was there an underground station in that area which was abandoned during construction, and never opened, because of the presence of a plague pit? I remain unconvinced. I wouldn't suggest that Lady BlahDeBlah's source invented it outright, but in a section about ghosts you've got to expect a certain amount of rumour, urban legend, chinese whispers and the like… --rbrwr± 10:42, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You have a point there. Lady BlahDeBlah 14:11, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dubious Muswell Hill claim

message: Under "Open stations with closed sections" we have:
:The following tube stations have closed platforms:
:...
:Euston (both branches of the old Northern Line tunnels, before both were realigned for the construction of the Victoria Line)
...which I find a bit misleading. As far as I can tell, the Charing Cross branch platforms are exactly where they always were, as is the southbound Bank branch. The old northbound Bank branch track was taken up and covered over in the platform tunnel, and the northbound running tunnel was closed for a short distance to the west of the station (the part to the east remains in use as the "Euston Loop"). No significant part of the station closed, though one edge of the old island platform ceased to be an edge. Am I wrong? --rbrwr± 21:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Euston Northern Line 

message: It would be nice to add to the list (and perhaps turn it into a table) the fates of the buildings, platforms and track, i.e. what has been demolished/removed and what still remains. Nicholas 19:20, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fates 

message: Should this be listed under permenantly closed railway stations? It does actually receive a service albeit a few times a year. 
Also with the (although quite a way off) Varsity Line proposal, it may be reopened. 
Simply south 23:16, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quainton\Quainton Road 

message: I was very surprised to see the dates of the comments in Walford? above.  Still not resolved?
Anyway, since that discussion started (and stopped!), a page called Fictional underground stations has been created.  I have just moved across the details of the fictional stations that are not closed, but it would seem rather more appropriate for the whole lot to go there, as the situation is a bit messy at present.
Is there really a need for a detailed description of the stations here?  Would it be better to move the detail to Fictional underground stations, and just have a name-only list here, with a cross-ref to the main article?
EdJogg 21:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional Stations (revisited) 

message: Does anyone know what happens to all the space down there? I know the entrances get blocked up but what happens to all the space. Is it left as it was before it was closed? The underground space isnt put to any use then? Thanks for answering! --81.179.72.241 18:52, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think most of it is left as open space and periodically inspected for safety. There would be no reason to fill it in as the tunnels are built to last and are not going to collapse any more than at an active station. If you check out the individual articles for the stations you will see that some of them are used for various purposes. --DanielRigal (talk) 13:45, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

text: List of closed London Underground stations redirects to Closed London Underground stations and hence the content is the same whichever link you use. If you are seeing any differences in content then I guess this must be a caching issue with your web browser.Please check it again and if you still think there is a problem please post some more details so it can be looked into. --DanielRigal (talk) 13:41, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: Having read the excellent book by Antony Badsey-Ellis about Londons Lost Tube Schemes, there are a few tube schemes that over the years have been approved for construction, but due to lack of finance never got off the ground.  Noteable examples include the North West London Railway (Victoria-Cricklewood), The North East Suburban Railway (Monument-Waltham Abbey), and the City and Brixton Railway (Monument-Brixton).
I have produced line diagrams for each of these.  Would it be worth starting articals on them, and even uploading the diagram?  If so let me know so I can create an account.  Also, where would such a topic go, since its not quite 'closed underground stations', yet I can't see a topic which covers it.
Thanks!
albanianposse at hotmail dot co dot uk
Ben 91.106.13.79 (talk) 05:26, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Badsley-Ellis's book is indeed an excellent read giving a detailed historical, political and business background to the planning of the numerous tube schemes that were proposed during the 1890s-1900s and also contains much useful information on those lines that were built. The "Morgan tubes" deserve an article and a consolidated article as suggested could be a good starting point for others. The City & Brixton Railway was one I also have on my to do list as it is closely related to the City & South London Railway article I rewrote last year. In the absence of articles you could create templates for the route diagrams in the same way that has been done for the Piccadilly Line or the Central Line for instance. DavidCane (talk) 18:18, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lines and stations that received royal assent but were never constructed. 

message: This article is a List and not a a Start Class as it lists all the different stations. Remember that not all lists have "List of..." in their name. Although it gives extra information, most is provided in tables. Simply south (talk) 11:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: List vs Start

message: Seen on our news here in Oz (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/18/2394715.htm) a story about part of the UndergrounD used during the war and latterly by BT but never used by trains - anybody know where it is? My guesses - the unused tunnel between Holborn and Aldwych, or part of the proposed express tube under the District between South Kensington and the City. Thanks Shrdlu junction (talk) 05:05, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is quite clear where it is - under Chancery Lane tube station, which is on the Central line. See London deep-level shelters and Kingsway telephone exchange for more information. --DavidCane (talk) 22:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tunnels for sale 

message: In the "current condition" column, many stations are listed as "demolished".  That is fine for surface stations, where it unambiguously means that neither
the station building nor the platforms survive.  But an underground station involves an underground space where the platforms were, and the word "demolished"
does not make sense.  All stations below ground where the word "demolished" is used (about six of them, I think) need their descriptions reviewed.  
Also in this column, many other stations are listed as "operated by National Rail".  This is nonsense; National Rail is not a train or station operator.
These descriptions should either say something like "part of National Rail network", or (perhaps better) name the applicable operating company, or both.
--50.100.189.198 (talk) 05:47, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "current condition" column 

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