List of former and unopened London Underground stations

The London Underground is a public rapid transit system in the United Kingdom that serves a large part of Greater London and adjacent parts of the home counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. It has many closed stations, while other stations were planned but never opened for public use. Some stations were closed down because a scarcity of passengers made them uneconomic; some became redundant after lines were re-routed or replacements were built; and others are no longer served by the Underground but remain open to National Rail main line 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.^[1]

London Transport Museum runs guided tours of several disused stations including Aldwych and Down Street through its "Hidden London" programme. The tours look at the history of the network and feature historical details drawn from the museum's own archives and collections.^[2]

Closed and Former stations

The following stations were once served by a London Underground line or by one of the organisation's predecessor companies,^[a] but are no longer served. Many are permanently closed, but some continue to be served by National Rail main line train operators.

Unopened stations

The following stations were once planned by the London Underground or one of the early independent underground railway companies and were granted parliamentary approval. Subsequent changes of plans or shortages of funds led to these stations being cancelled before they opened, and, in most cases, before any construction work was carried out.^[b]

See also

• List of London Underground stations – includes previous names for stations
• List of closed railway stations in London
• List of closed railway stations in Britain
• List of fictional rapid transit stations
• List of London Underground-related fiction
• Ghost stations of other cities:
  • Ghost stations of the Paris Métro
  • Ghost stations of Berlin
  • Disused Barcelona Metro stations
  • List of closed New York City Subway stations

Notes and references

Notes

1. Today's London Underground is an amalgamation of a number of separate railway companies that were brought together under the common ownership of the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) in 1933. The current operator, Transport for London, is the latest successor of the LPTB.
2. In addition to the stations listed, which received parliamentary approval, there have been many unapproved proposals for new underground railways and unapproved alternative plans for underground railways already opened. The unapproved stations included in such proposals are too numerous to list.

References

1. "London Underground Film Office". Transport for London. Archived from the original on 3 August 2010. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
2. "New Tickets Released for Hidden London tours". London Transport Museum. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
3. Rose 2005.
4. Connor 2001, pp. 104–05.
5. Connor 2001, pp. 100–101.
6. Day & Reed 2008, p. 161.
7. Bruce & Croome 2006, p. 72.
8. Day & Reed 2008, p. 120.
9. Connor 2001, p. 42.
10. Connor 2001, p. 49.
11. Horne 2001, pp. 72–73.
12. Horne 2006, p. 23.
13. Connor 2001, p. 103.
14. Connor 2001, pp. 20–21.
15. Connor 2001, pp. 31–32.
16. Day & Reed 2008, p. 177.
17. Connor 2001, p. 108.
18. "Hammersmith (Grove Road) railway station". Disused Stations. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
19. Connor 2001, p. 109.
20. Connor 2001, p. 19.
21. Connor 2001, p. 112.
22. Connor 2001, pp. 9–10.
23. Day & Reed 2008, p. 135.
24. Connor 2001, p. 69.
25. Connor 2001, p. 121.
26. Connor 2001, p. 71.
27. Connor 2001, p. 115.
28. Day & Reed 2008, p. 202.
29. Connor 2001, p. 53.
30. Connor 2001, p. 26.
31. Connor 2001, p. 117.
32. Connor 2001, p. 58.
33. "East London line facts". Transport for London. Archived from the original on 6 February 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
34. "Shoreditch". Abandoned tube stations. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
35. Connor 2001, p. 91.
36. Connor 2001, p. 22.
37. Connor 2001, p. 77.
38. Connor 2001, p. 119.
39. Connor 2001, p. 61.
40. "Uxbridge Road". Disused Stations. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
41. Connor 2001, p. 93.
42. Connor 2001, p. 86.
43. Connor 2001, p. 36.
44. Horne 2000, p. 36.
45. Horne 2000, p. 56.
46. Day & Reed 2008, p. 118.
47. "Alexandra Palace". Disused Stations. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
48. Horne 2000, p. 52.
49. Badsey-Ellis 2005, pp. 74–76.
50. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 213.
51. Beard 2002, p. 31.
52. Beard 2002, p. 127.
53. Badsey-Ellis 2005, pp. 79–80.
54. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 266.
55. Beard 2002, p. 124.
56. Horne 2001, p. 40.
57. Horne 2001, p. 57.
58. Wilson 2008, p. 10.
59. Jackson 1966, pp. 676–677.
60. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 11.
61. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 13.
62. Badsey-Ellis 2005, pp. 70–71.
63. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 220.
64. Jackson 1986, p. 130.
65. Bruce & Croome 2006, p. 38.
66. Bruce & Croome 2006, pp. 59–60.
67. Badsey-Ellis 2005, pp. 273–274.
68. Jackson 1986, p. 41.
69. Jackson 1986, p. 374.
70. Bruce & Croome 2006, p. 30.
71. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 77.
72. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 138.
73. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 264.
74. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 139.
75. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 279.
76. Connor 2001, p. 14.
77. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 17.
78. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 18.
79. Horne 2005, pp. 22 & 26.
80. Horne 2005, p. 26.
81. Connor 2001, p. 99.
82. Goudie & Stuckey 1990.

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External links

• London's Abandoned Tube Stations
• Underground-history.co.uk
• Clive's Underground Line Guides