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Catman · Feb 6, 2008

My google mojo has deserted me. Is it possible to do tours of some of
the disused stations on the underground? looking for stuff to do next
Friday.

TIA
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The Older Gentleman · Feb 6, 2008

Paul Corfield said:

I suspect they may even have stopped
doing them because of security issues.
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ISTR reading something about how the disused stations and tunnels were
being used to store black helicopters or something, so you're probably
right.

platypus · Feb 6, 2008

Paul said:

As I'm security cleared I'm not allowed to tell you one way or the
other ;-)
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TOG wants ISBN-13: 978-0140033816 [1] so he does. He can borrow my copy if
he likes.

[1]or Wikipedia
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_citadels_under_London

Catman · Feb 6, 2008

Paul said:

depends on what you mean by tour? if you mean find them at surface
level then that's not too hard. I could probably tell you where most of
them are. Drifting slightly from the subject I found a map on the
intranet at work that shows the coding we use for each track section and
station. Rather wonderfully it had codes for bits of certain lines that
were either planned but never built (Bakerloo and Victoria lines) or
bits that were built but never opened for LU service (parts of the
Northern Line). A rather different tube map!
jpeg?

If you actually want to see inside then that has to wait for a
specialist tour - probably organised by the Museum but it's been ages
and ages since one has been held. I suspect they may even have stopped
doing them because of security issues.
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I do. Arse, feck and buggery bollocks. Cheers anyway.

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Tosspot · Feb 6, 2008

If you actually want to see inside then that has to wait for a
specialist tour - probably organised by the Museum but it's been ages
and ages since one has been held. I suspect they may even have stopped
doing them because of security issues.
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What, like blowing up a disused underground station?

JB · Feb 6, 2008

Catman said:

My google mojo has deserted me. Is it possible to do tours of some of the
disused stations on the underground? looking for stuff to do next Friday.
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Have a look over on: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/
specifically:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/cgi-bin/search/search.pl?Realm=SUBBRIT&q=London & Middlesex
or ask on uk.rec.subterranea
Many trips have been organised by Sub-Brit down there over the years. Guy to
contact is nick Catford.

JB

Slower Than You · Feb 7, 2008

The said:

ISTR reading something about how the disused stations and tunnels were
being used to store black helicopters or something, so you're probably
right.
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At least one disused underground station is sometimes used for SO19
training excercises. I've played cannon fodder for them (they stop
short of making you wear a tea-towel on your head before you take part).

It wasn't disused enough that they couldn't run an LU train to it.

Maybe that is top-secret or something, although nobody made me sign
anything to that effect...

Catman · Feb 7, 2008

JB said:

Have a look over on: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/
specifically:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/cgi-bin/search/search.pl?Realm=SUBBRIT&q=London & Middlesex
or ask on uk.rec.subterranea
Many trips have been organised by Sub-Brit down there over the years. Guy to
contact is nick Catford.
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Interesting, ta

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Steve Fitzgerald · Feb 10, 2008

Paul Corfield said:

depends on what you mean by tour? if you mean find them at surface
level then that's not too hard. I could probably tell you where most of
them are. Drifting slightly from the subject I found a map on the
intranet at work that shows the coding we use for each track section and
station. Rather wonderfully it had codes for bits of certain lines that
were either planned but never built (Bakerloo and Victoria lines) or
bits that were built but never opened for LU service (parts of the
Northern Line). A rather different tube map!

If you actually want to see inside then that has to wait for a
specialist tour - probably organised by the Museum but it's been ages
and ages since one has been held. I suspect they may even have stopped
doing them because of security issues.
Click to expand...

Someone I know did Aldwych a few weeks ago. It was arranged through the
LT museum and Mike Ashworth from there did the tour.

I don't have any more details but I'll ask although contacting the LT
Museum might be a definite idea.

In answer to the OP, you would have to get on an organised tour and they
are few and far between (and hugely popular when they do happen) as far
as I can tell. Certain stations are out of bounds anyway (Down Street
comes to mind, although I don't know the specific reason) and I wouldn't
take anyone round York Road as I've walked round it (in a moment of
shut-down at work when I was held in the tunnel there) and it's like a
building site in there.

Catman · Feb 10, 2008

Steve said:

Someone I know did Aldwych a few weeks ago. It was arranged through the
LT museum and Mike Ashworth from there did the tour.

I don't have any more details but I'll ask although contacting the LT
Museum might be a definite idea.
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Cheers, I may well do that
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