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Ghost Stations of the London Underground
PinchDuck writes "Check out this site to get a tour of London Underground stations that have been abandoned during the century+ history of the commuter system. You can apparently still get to some of them! (though not by taking the Tube, obviously). I wish I had found this site 2 weeks ago, when I went to London, but now my geeky explorations must wait until my next visit (having just flown back in to Detroit today)."
I win!
Urban decay just fascinates me.
One step closer to the vision of NYC in AI (the movie by Spielberg)....
Where else could Bond meet Judy Dench?
I think my principles are reachin' an all time low
The Tube has nearly 256 miles of track and, per the following link, nearly 40 old ghost stations that are no longer in service.
/. article was just posted.
I found this old article on The Tube's Web site that really gives a nice overview of things. I actually read that a few weeks ago, so it's kind of ironic that this
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Apparently, the TTC has more than one phantom station too. I think the Tea Party filmed a video on a closed off Bay statioon level (?). There's at least one more, but I can't think of it/them offhand.
There are a lot of sites out there with some info on the tunnels:
http://www.thetube.com/content/metro/01/0110/31/
http://www.londonrailways.net/ghost.htm
The BBC has a great article here.
Most older cities have a lot of steam tunnels and abandoned stations like these. Does anyone out there have some interesting exploration stories to share?
> Ghost Stations of the London Underground
Yes, but be careful if you do try to visit them. Q and Bond might accidentally shoot you during one of those VR simulations.*
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind finding the simulator unattended and programming it to have a little tryst with Seven of Nine and Xev while Natalie Portman pours hot grits down my pants...
*: [Die Another Day reference, for those who haven't seen it.]
Chasing Amy
(We all chase Amy...)
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws"-Tacitus
Now, wouldn't some of those old tunnels and depots make for an interesting setting for a little party? No 2 hour long drives to get out to the boonies, just a nice underground party. [Cheap pun, I know.]
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Make sure to call me when you meet Richard, Door, and the Marquis. I always wanted to meet them.
ProjectZ have undertaken some "unofficial" visits to some of these stations. Specifically Wood Lane underground station, and the abandoned part of Holborn Station and the adjoining world war two bunker. There are also some other interesting urban explorations on this site.
Abandoned London Underground stations play a somewhat major part in several scenes in the new James Bond movie, including being the intro location for the new Bond car (a little disappointing this time around). You also get to find out what happens to old equipment, in one particular abandoned station.
Another site that has similar information about places you're not supposed to go is www.infiltration.org. Ah, running around steam tunnels back when I was an undergrad....
http://triggur.org/silo/site.html
World's weirdest site--exploring an abandoned missile silo.
Making trouble today for a better tomorrow...
Someone should tell him that disabling right click does not hide your code.
i propose we grabe one of these stations and turn it into the /. Underground Lounge. Door and Richard are always welcome, of course.
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You need not feel bad that you're going back to Detroit. It has no lack of abandoned structures. Check this out for a start: http://www.forgottendetroit.com/. Also try the Urban Exploration Ring for the website about your area!
It's off topic, but since you mentioned it, Detroit is also full of abandoned places to explore.
Check it out.
Car disapinting? Bond back in a decent car, none of this BMW crap. Of course we didnt see it much ;) - but hey, all the features got used
I would have posted something funny here, but chrisd beat me to it without even a chance. :-)
Neverwhere was good... I just finished it for the second time a couple of weeks ago.
... The Government has put a D-notice on the publishers of London Underground maps. There are stations the public aren't supposed to know about out east; they built the Dome to discourage prospective explorers. The Forbidden Line starts near the Thames Barrier then goes 'London Below - Rl'yeh - Pandaemonium'. Another station serves the workers on the underground dragon-breeding project.
They claimed that those raiders who attacked the Dome with a JCB were aiming to steal diamonds. We know the truth now! They were aiming to break into the main shaft and expose the horrors below... Don't let them lie to you!
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
For more of the same, here's a great web site about abandoned stations in the New York City subway system, including a just gorgeous station directly underneath City Hall that sadly cannot be returned to service due to some minor technical issues (in addition to it being considered a security risk in this day and age).
If abandoned subway stations are your thing, you can find plenty of them right here in New York City.
One of them is even a national historic monument.
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Oh that's just great. Now where are we going to hide out when the machines take over the planet?? The get-out has always been that mankind would take refuge in the abandoned tunnels and sewers. Now that Google has the archive of all the locations, that plan isn't going to work too well.
Please, be more responsible in the stories that you post on here. Thank You, STF
I hate when people use those right-click "protections", like that's gonna stop anything. Well maybe a few IE users. duh.
Twenty years from know, slashdot.org website
will be abandoened, with no links leaving to it
and we are going to rediscover it.
Why are you complaining about missing a few abandoned subway stations? You live in an abandoned city!
because Michael Sims didn't like it.
try looking for the few Rabbit mobile phone access points that are still visible in some of the tube stations. The few remaining relics of a once great mobile comms network (heh), slowly being obscured by grime.
Some of these London stations are used to great effect in Neil Gaiman's book "Neverwhere".
Very cool book, IMHO
Doesn't work on the Mac.
tee hee
The mods are sorry, but they hadn't a clue.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
If london can find lost stations, why can't we find jimmy hoffa or the spammer who keeps sending me herbal viagra ads?
While working my way through Tomb Raider III :-)
Here I was looking at the front page, and I see the word 'ghost'. I expected to see 50 trolls referencing 'Ghostses of Mississippi,' but, alas, I am mistaken.
One of my friends was a tunnel engineer on the Underground for a number of years. He was once visiting some abandoned stations with a view to using them as storage space, when they found a walled up spiral escalator. Apparently it was a Victorian invention, intended to work in narrow circular shafts. Not too reliable though, which is why nothing came of it.
I would go check some of these out, but I hear they're really dark, and I don't want a grue to eat me. :( There's no place grues like better than dark abandoned underground transit stations.
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Due to the fact that the first metro (aka subway) company used to be divided and to have build separates lines, the paris underground train is quite interresting because it has many strange story ...
:
Near the place i leave is the Haxo Station
Other one other forgotten station : Molitor
And the fabulous lost railway with great spots "la petite ceinture" (the small belt)
The timeline of the paris metro station, feel free to crawl thru time!
He mentioned that the Bull and Bush station was rumoured to be a control center incase the thames flooded the underground tunnels.. thanks now i have to live with that thought. If you think about it it makes sense.. all the lines are connected at one point or another so everywhere would flood. Can anyone explain what would actually happen, and how it could be stopped?
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I didn't think so.
Use a better fucking browser you shit-faced, cock-smoking prick.
I abandoned those places for a reason, thank you very much. Get your tube out of there.
INFILTRATION is a website that specializes in clandestine exploration of subway tunnels, amongst other things.
If you use windows, press the "menu" button, or Shift-F10. Same as right clicking. IF you are in linux, I dont think it works (cant remember offhand)
Ok, I like Aston-Martins. I also like BMWs. However, the company has nothing to do with this--the concept of an invisible car is just stupid.
Nice site here with lots of detail. I've actually seen the old city hall station (although briefly, from a passing train)
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I take it you all know BBC already produced a (pretty damn good) version of Neverwhere filmed in the disused London Underground stations, right?
:)
No links to support this, but go search
Sounds a bit like the Seattle Underground Tour (Link) (Link) (Link) which I took this summer out there. No, they won't tell you any dirty secrets about Microsoft. But for 7.00 it was worth it, and the tour guides were knowledgeable and funny. Apparently the original city planners for the city of Seattle were not all that smart... (if your interested about this part of Seattle there is a book called Sons of the Profits about it)
Anybody know if there is anything like this in some other big cities?
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I visited it in 2000 when I was in Berlin. I took the "guided tour" of the area.
Ostbahnhof was a station on a line that started in West Berlin, ducked into East Berlin for a little bit, through one station and then went back into West Berlin. The U-Bahn did not stop at Ostbahnhof while the city was divided. However, that did not stop some East Berliners from trying to use that train to escape East Berlin - which resulted in some fatalities until the East German government wised up.
Later, West Berliners taking the train would be able to see a "ghost" station as the train sped by Ostbahnhof with armed guards patrolling the station to prevent East Berliners from trying to escape.
Mmmm.. Donuts
I think we should really give the US audience a chance to get the hang, and use the simplified version for now...
I live on Watling Street, so that amendment stands too. Or indeed the playstation 2 version, considering the media of this discussion...
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Ironic != coincidental.
Please for the love of God learn the difference.
It wasnt that it was invisible that got me, it was the freaking self repair mechanism! What next? Warp engines!
I know of one abandoned station on the "T" -- the old Harvard stop -- and think there may be another. It's an odd thing to glimpse in the tunnels. I can only imagine how much dirt, dust, and grime collects over the years. The bus-like Green line, which is a bit like an amusement park ride as it winds it's way under the city, has some very interesting views when, as often happens, the driver has to jump out the door to kick some ancient signal over that's preventing passage.
:) (A couple of those bridges, for example.)
Speaking of relics, the big dig (multibillion $ replacement of the main artery with tunnels) brought up all sort of oddities, such as hollowed-out tree trunks used as sewers in the 18th century. The mysteries that stir beneath.
Surely the Chicago L, Paris Metro, and so on share these features. And, given the nature of the web where one person's trivia is another's lifelong obsession, I'm sure the info is out there, somewhere.
Thanks for the NYC cite. NYC has all sorts of interesting things buried there.... And I can't help but say there are a lot of public works in the city that are not abandoned -- and should be.
Anyway, you can mostly successfully futz with your settings such that you never have to see them.
-B
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Only the english could come up with something like this.
A few years ago, I went on a tour of some of the ghost stations in the Boston Subway. It was a great experience and a litle spooky too. Many of these stations are excatly like they were when they were open...they just locked the doors and turned out the lights. I believe that you can take a tour of the Ghost Stations of the New York subway too. Of course, with all the paranoia of: 'Homeland Insecurity', maybe not.... Here are a couple of links: Boston: Http://members.aol.com/eddanamta/abandoned/abansta s.html
New York: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/
Repository of all kinds of interesting stuff like this: http://www.deathrock.net/ariadne/ruins.html
I'm amazed that no one has mentioned the link between this article and a book by popular-with-geeks author Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (information on Everything).
If you've never read it, I recommend it, very reality bending and a good read besides.
"He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil."
No sooner do I write what I wrote, so I notice that of course there is a page dedicated to Boston, cited from the very helpful NYC reference. Should've figured! Other pages for othe cities abound. I only thought this was an obscure interest. :)
Isn't the net cool? For bringing us information like this that we really, really need? Well, beats watching sitcoms.
In 1983 I was in Berlin and a reponsible adult (?) took us out on the S-Bahn and for whatever reason on that night the train took a spin through (under) East Berlin and through 3 stations that had been closed for 40 years.
It was wierd as hell, the stations looked... well... bombed out and there was debris everywhere. At each station there was a lone bare bulb and a lone polizei with an AK-47. The air was extremly stale too. The train wasn't allowed to stop, it just slowed.
Like a litle tram trip through the Twilight Zone.
I can only assume that all that is a memory and those stations have been re-built now and are operational, no? Any Berliners care to comment?
Which one of the abandoned tubes has a river of mood slime flowing through it?
Too bad i dont have a single subwaystation in a 500 mile radius.
A well, cant win them all.
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I'm sure this one was discussed on the UK transport newsgroup a few years ago.. A related discussion (but not the actual one) is linked to here.
The Victoria line has a stretch between Victoria and Green Park. The most direct route would go under Buckingham Palace, the Queen's primary residence. However, if you look at 'real' maps of the Underground, a kink is in the line which causes it to skirt the Queen's property.
Supposedly this is related to security, but also to an atomic shelter located under the Palace.
If, however, you keep your eyes peeled while looking out of the train between these two stations, you can actually see a very small platform and some dim lights. I've only seen it once, and I -think- it's out of the left hand side of the train when going northbound, but I'm not 100% sure.
The newsgroup speculation at the time was that this was a way for the Royals to access the Underground in certain 'situations'. Next time you're on that stretch of line, check it out.
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On the page about Down Street, the station used as a shelter by Churchill, he says this:
On the splash-guard above the sink I was very surprised to read written recently in the dust "Hywel 2000" - so another person bearing my name has recently visited this complex!
His name is Hywel. If I had such an uncommon name, and such an uncommon hobby, I would've been scared half to death by this.
Even the interpretation that he has been there before, but can't remember it, is quite scary.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Of all the deepcut lines, the Picadilly Line is probably the most fascinating for abandoned stations.
There are three notable abandonments; Aldwych, Down Street, and Brompton Road. There are also abandoned sections at Hyde Park Corner (which no longer uses it's original surface building, which is now a Pizza Restaurant), Green Park, South Ken (the lift shafts are empty), Caledonian Road, and no doubt several other stations.
Aldwych is probably the best known of the abandoned stations. It was closed in 1994 as the replacement cost for the lifts was deemed uneconomical, given the usage the station got. Aldwych runs on a branch down from Oldborn, and some tunnel extends further. This is because the Picadilly line was originally two seperate lines, the western section running to Covent Garden, the northern section running to Aldwych. The northern section was intended to run south of the river, hence the extra tunnel. This was never completed though, and the two sections wer joined at Holborn very early on.
Aldwych also has other random tunnel going to it, as the Jubilee line was built all the way to Aldwych, but never used that far. Now the Charring Cross section of the Jubilee line is completely abandoned as the Jubilee extension takes the line through Westminster instead.
Down Street was closed in the 1930s along with Brompton Road to thin down the number of Central London stations on the Picadilly line when the line was extended further east and west. Down Street, due to it's proximity to Green Park, was never a particularly busy station, and hence was an easy target. During the war it was converted into a transport command HQ and government bunker.
Brompton Road was likely chosen for closure due its very high proximity to South Ken - much of the surface building still stands next to the Kensington Oratory, just a few minutes walk away. Brompton Road was also used during the war, although it's uses were entirely military, and somewhat murky. The military still own the shafts, making access from the ground impossible. Several years ago a man died after breaking in and falling down one of the shafts. His remains were not discovered for quite some time!
Both Brompton Road and Down Street can be spotted from passing tube trains - the platforms were bricked up during their war usage, so you can see where the platforms would be by looking where the tube wall turns into a brick wall. Brompton Road is between South Ken and Knightsbridge, Down Street is between Hyde Park Corner and Green Park. Also look out for the cross-over / passing tunnels between Hyde Park Corner and Down Street :-)
cx site...Wood Lane...Holborn..."unofficial visits"...urban explorations...
No clicky for me!
Didn't Dr. Quatermass have an exciting dig in one of those places in "Five Million Years to Earth"?
rj
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...this kinda reminds me of an article in 2600, Fall 1999 that was essentially a hacker's travel guide for the backstage tunnels at the Magic Kingdom.
Wow, it's been a while since I've been to a site where the author was so paranoid about his pictures being copied. Right-click blockers, and multiple paragraphs telling you his stuff is copyrighted (even to the point of him suggesting he's got more copyright than he does!). I guess it's just a sign of what's to come. :-(
Otherwise, a good site.
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This is a fascinating subject. Some of my favorites...
c om
http://www.nelsap.org
http://www.forgotten-ny.
And exactly on the subject of abandoned subway tunnels, here's an index for New York...
http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
In melbourne australia we have an abandoned underground system from ww2 that was apparently used by the american military as the secret operating base in the event of australia being invaded by japan. Apparently there is a whole city underneath melbourne that has been "forgotten" and closed shut. There are discrete entrances everywhere around melbourne but unfortunately they are all barricated up or very hard to pick out!
We played dungeons and dragons for 3 hours.....then i was slain by an elf
Disinformation has a decent article, but it's the links at the bottom that rock.
:P
Infiltration has some good 'case studies' -- with pictures. Nice.
Also, jinx isn't as cool.
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
"In order to better understand the location of these stations on today's network, you may wish to download a copy of the world famous underground map (well, technically it's a diagram not a map)"
Um. Take a trained geographer's word, that's a map. I guess Polynesian wave and star charts are not maps because they don't show geomorphological features in an easily discernible way to Westerners... We are part of the landscape. Get over it.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
There goes
Man this place is going to the dogs..
Trolling is a art,
After seeing Die Another Day, I decided to do some research on the abandoned tube station that Bond went to. The name of the station was "Vauxhall Cross". It turns out, that a Vauxhall Cross station never existed, but it is the offical name of the building better known as MI6 headquarters. Also here are some more pictures of Vauxhall Cross. I'll give them credit for throwing in a little easter egg like that.
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If you find that fascinating, and you just flew into DTW (the new northwest terminal is pretty fly), then you'll find these sites really interesting:
a tion.org/ (the commercial face for U.E.)
http://detroityes.com/
The ruins of detroit - a lot of old car plants, the cadillac train depot & hotel - we live in the top "urban exploration" city, ya know.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/
the subways and abandoned buildings of new york.
http://www.darkpassage.com/
http://www.infiltr
http://www.urbanexplorers.net/
This is kind of a morbid thought, but aren't these underground tunnels pretty convenient for terrorists?
...
1) Good (secret) meeting places, not patrolled by police
2) Good places to put large bombs or biological weapons undetected (and they might be under or near fairly important buildings or public areas)
Seems to me that some of the more critically-located tunnels should be sealed.
Don't count on it. After it created that much noise in media. It'll be closed and welded really good. As well as it was done to many other good places in NY, Chicago, Berlin, Paris, Moscow and Toronto. City will be afraid that soone will kill himself there. So I say buy yourself nice portable plasma cutter.:) But anyways I'm kinda amaized that so many slashdoters are interested in urban exploration. I was thinking there are only few idiots like me.:)
http://brainstorminterlude.2y.net:8409/~uec/expedi tions.html
I have gone down many old gold mines and caves in Colorado. Just wish we had taken a camera, not that they had digital ones back in the day.
/.ing on a adsl! and great story and pictures. Its just more fun actually doing the exploration with a friend. So now when we are doing a trip, I guess we will do a little net exploration first, to narrow down the candiates.
But while the sites are impressive. (taking a good
It's also the location of the notorious Ministry of Serendipity, immortalised by Robert Rankin in Apocalypso.
The Sproutlore event held at the venue is given credence by the official Tube site. The site exclaims: Mornington Crescent reveals secret ministry!
I'd rather be rich than stupid.
Who needs London when you have a ton of history within miles of you. This http://detroityes.com/home.htm is a great website that I'm sure has been featured before. Its easy to spend a couple hours looking at the pictures and reading about them.
incredible how a bond movie can open the eyes of people! in "die another day" they actually go to one of them and get u intreaged
who wants to rule the world?
I recall a friend telling me, when we passed thru it, that there used to be a fairly huge industrial area nearby, until the 80's. Once the Soviet Union fell and the factories closed, they boarded up the place with aluminium siding and demolished the building at the entrance in 1989. The station itself was built on a bridge running over one of Moscow's rivers (I forgot which one). At one point, someone decided to call the long demolished site "cleared for future reconstruction work" and reopening was targetted for 2002. Perhaps someone in Moscow can update us?
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Do you think we can find one of those camouflaging Austens in one of those ghost stations too?
....we have an entire abandoned subway LINE!!! It's called the Sheppard line....
-psy
sit back and enjoy the slashdotting
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i'll never feel the same way about tunneling...
This is just the kind of thing we Don't need sitting around unguarded, just Begging to be used as secret bases for invading Daleks and Cybermen!
>However, the company has nothing to do with this--the concept of an invisible car is just stupid.
David Coperfield.
(See also 52 Stations)
Trams of Old London
Taking my baby into the past
Trams of Old London
Blow my mind
Ludgate, Fenchurch, Highgate Hill
Rolling slowly up there still
Waterloo and Clerkenwell
Up to Aldgate East as well
On a clear night you can see
Where the rails used to be
Oh, it seems like ancient myth
They once ran to Hammersmith
Through Electric Avenue
Brixton Down and South West 2
Teddington and Kennington
Twickenham and Paddington
In the Blitz they never closed
Though they blew up half the roads
Oh, it hurts me just to see 'em
Going dead in a museum
Trams of Old London
Taking my baby into the past
Trams of Old London
Blow my mind
I went to London couple years back and it amazed me how huge this this whole metro net is. I've seen some pretty interesting places and this site showed me stuff i want to check out on my next visit.
Check my site: http://pixel.pagina.nl
If you like the LU see this film! It's about the descendants of some people who get stuck in the underground in the 19th century and turn to cannibalising unsuspecting passengers that they can catch... something like that anyhoo! Christopher Lee makes a cameo appearance. The last things the victims hear before death is "Mind the doors"... very silly!
I think it was filmed at the "British Museum" tube station which was closed even in those days.
Railway archeology is suprisingly popular in the UK. It was my Dads 60th this year so we went up to the North Norfolk railway (a "preserved" line) and drive steam engines up and down for the day. Marvellous stuff! (www.nnrail.co.uk I fink).
We (my family) even own a small piece of railway embankment. It is part of the old Stour Valley Railway line (Marks Tey to Cmabridge via Sudbury and Haverhill). Of course the line was dug up in the 60's so we keep (kept) our pony there. I've always wanted to get 30meters of track, an old carriage and a brake van. I reckon it would make a nice house! Probably cheaper than buying somewhere in the UK these days.... Hmmm...
Matthew.
"None of this shit works" -W.Shatner
Basically it's an unofficial guide to the tube, there's funny drivers quotes, pigeons travelling on the tube, celebs spotted on the tube, the tube in films, history of the tube map and alternative maps, stuff about buskers and music on the tube and lot more.
OK shameless plug over and I'm going back to looking at the rest of this thread.
"ghosts & ghouls on the tube"
There's sposed to be some sort of underground troglodytes down there which sounds like BS to me, although I've seen a fair few people who look like troglodytes using the tube ;-)
It stars Donald Pleasance as a police inspector trying to find out why people are mysteriously disappearing from the Underground late at night. Turns out a bunch of cannibals (descended from Victorian railway workers who got trapped during the building of the line) are living in the disused Museum station and nipping out for a "takeaway" late at night. It's gruesome in places but rather funny.
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Mods: Take a look at the I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" site, and the mysteries of Mornington Crescent, not having a clue, one tune to the sound of another and all manner of oddities will be revealed.
Great for boredom on the tube - you must remember "magic eye" from the mid 1990's (I think) where you stare at those images of dots and squares and stuff and come up with a real picture - well it's been suggested that it works with staring at tube seats too.
I'm invoking the 1822 revision of the slave release rule and starting with "Embankment"
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cLive ;-)
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
These places has been explored in some pop-cultural works.
Why don't you check out Down Street Station (slightly redecorated) in NeverWhere
or Die Another Day?
GOOD GOD DAMNIT YOU ASSMUNCH!!!
You deserve to be bitchslapped for your gross violation of the policies here. Even when you submitted your story the fucking subtitle said "Grousing about rejected stories is offtopic and usually moderated as such"
Read the fucking policies and get a life. Phoenix. Ugh.
So here goes, I'll counter your move with the John Prescott article 2.92.11.iii section of the 1991 London Transport Act and boldly go with
"Barons Court"
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
This is great news to all those tramps with net connections... now they can select their accomidation before moving in :-)
All I can say is that if I had points I'd be redressing the balance right now.
Clever post indeed.
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www.caveclan.org/sydney
We (the cave clan) exlplore tunnels, drains, abandoned building etc around Australia.
I'd love to get my torch into the tube
Ok go ahead, and hide in these rat holes.
Here is a page about the Paris subway ghost stations (only eleven, much less than London).
What is the most amazing to me is that these stations seem to have escaped time: you can see ads from the 50s on the wall. When there was some works done at the Roosevelt station, they removed a part of the wall coverings, revealing the original wall, covered with ads, and a map of the subway as it was in the mid 60s.
Proposition sounds as ridiculous as Death Line really, for more check out tube celebs it's towards the end of this film section.
The way the invisibility function worked was briefly explained in the film.
It was somewhat similar to this.
The technology depicted in Bond films is usually "potentially" possible even if not currently viable. I see the cloaking function of the car as being no different.
I had a good look but I couldn't find Hobbs End anywhere
Down Street station was where Churchill slept and planned during WWII. You can go on special visits to see the station and the rooms inside.
I havent been but seen some clips of it. The rooms are tiny (about double cube size). To get to Down Street you have to stop a tube halfway between two regular stations and get off / on.
to Google for "Urban Exploration", "Urbex" or "Buildering" - you should discover links to pictures & stories of unauthori - sorry, 'informal' visits to the same & similar places in the UK. If you pick the right site then you'll discover the explanation for the "unexplained woman's laughter" mentioned in the Down St section of the Slashdot featured site.
It wasnt the invisibility that did it for me, it was the fact that after the light emitters were shot up, they fixed themselves on their own. Obviously some borg engineering, perhaps Sevon of Nine will be in Bond XXI?
I've seen a few folks from the US also providing links to dead underground stations in various american cities, so I thought I'd throw this in (despite the fact I can't find any links to anything more concrete).
As far as I know, there is a half-built extension to Glasgow's underground system (it's in Scotland, UK, if your not sure), with platforms actually built at some proposed stations, but the whole project was abandoned before the new circuit could be opened.
For those that don't know, Glasgow's underground is far from the sprawling network that London's is. Glasgow's is merely a circle system, with around 15 stations in all, and it's always confused me as to where the new circle, had it ever been opened, would have connected to the existing network.
On a Sunday? A brave choice. I'll assume the Old Kentish option is in force, then:
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I just thought it was really weird that my story was rejected, knowing that the exact same story would be posted some hours later, which it just was. So let's see, the story was rejected because it wasn't old news yet?
I think your right about getting a life. Absolutely. This page has been sucking my time away ever since I found it.
I was walking by the Aldwych station friday night around 2:30am coming back from a club. The station is abandoned, and you barely even notice it exists, but that night you could hear some heavy house music blasting out. Someone was holding a rave in there, but there was no way in unfortunately. There was a gate in the front that they had locked, but the door behind that was open. I was quite pissed off. At least the old stations are going to some good use though...
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There are also tunnels under Georgetown University which I explored this summer while working for their housing department. Some of them are mostly maintenance tunnels, steamy hot, dark and filled with pipes running to big underground boiler rooms that supply dorms with hot water and hot air and the like.
Exploring them around 2am one night, we found a tunnel that eventually led into the Ryan Administration building, and not knowing any better, my friends and I set off a silent alarm. As we were about to go upstairs, two gaurds arrived and told us we had to leave. Fortunately most of us were wearing housing shirts so the gaurds didn't harass us.
Other tunnels, like the one under Reiss building, were really nice poured concrete, but they lead to a locked door eventually. Another tunnel led into the Dahlgren Crypt where five of the Dalhgrens are buried. I'm not really sure who they are, but it's not easy to get into the crypt through normal means, and it was creepy to find our way there through dark and nasty tunnels in the middle of the night.
There are rumors that a tunnel exists that goes between Georgetown and the White House, although no one will ever confirm that. There is a train that goes underground between the White House and Congress, and I know that they emergency meeting place for Congress is in Gaston Hall, which is in the main building on campus (Healy). Also, it's said that if a nuclear attack were to hit the center of washington, Healy building would be the only major building left standing because of its thick stone walls. I'm not sure if that's true, but there's definitely urban legend support for the white house/georgetown tunnels existence.
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It didn't say they were being repaired, just that it was resetting the system. Maybe it was figuring out a way of using the remaining emitters to compensate for the rest. Or maybe a fuse was blown inside, and it had to figure a way round it, like an immobot. But since it gave an exact time to when it could restart, I'm guessing it was Windows based and just crashed :)
Come to think of it, Windows does have a spookily accurate way of crashing in the most inopportune of moments. So it would kind of make sense for the invisibility to fault in the heat of battle. Perhaps Bill Gates is actually a member of SPECTRE?
Toronto has a couple of closed subway stations and partial lines under the Queen and Bay stations that were never put into service. They are now used exclusively for training TTC subway employees and filming movies.
The subway scenes for the Mira Sorvino film Mimic (1997) were shot there, as were scenes from Johnny Mnemonic and Darkman, among others.
The article is slightly inaccuarte. The idea was that the Northern line would terminate at Highgate and the service from Finsbury Park would run on to High Barnet. When I did this walk the first time (about 20 years ago) one could walk through the southern tunnels and right on the Highgate upper level station. The Northern tunnels were closed because they lead straight on to the electrified sidings about 500 metres south of East Finchley station - that spur (from East Finchley to the sidings) is all that remains of the original plan.
There are still rows round here about rebuilding the line - which would relieve a lot of bus congestion but at the price of the loss of a local amenity (the Parkland Walk nb: not the Woodland walk as stated in the article).
Of course the Tories (boo hiss) wanted to turn the Parkland Walk into a motorway and only abandoned the plan when they realised they were about to get slaughtered in the 1990 local elections...
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I think that you are confusing the Glasgow Subway (small trains running in a circle) with the underground bits of the rail network. There is several unused bits of the latter, such as the extra tunnel under Glasgow Central & the tunnel going up to the Botanic Gardens (these might be connected somewhere). About 8 years ago the river Kelvin broke into this tunnel and flooded all the way down to Argyle Street, closing the line for most of a year.
Everybody knows that the "dead planet" was severely bombarded by the borg with melting meteorites during the astro date 201939102.123 because its citizens refused to comply with the Borg plan for terrorism, after inspectors found "mustard gas" in the craters of the planet. The beautiful craters and valleys of the "dead planet" which were its major tourist attraction, were badly damaged with the bombing then.
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This site has a fine collection of abandoned stations on Boston's MBTA system.
Didn't that use to be the terminus point for the Jubilee line? Either that or Charing Cross was, which may have been what you saw.
I've been visiting this website for a couple of years now. If I had thought that this would have been a relevant topic, I would have submitted these:
http://www.cygnals.com/zine/complete/subway.htm
http://www.cygnals.com/zine/queen/home.html
The abandoned Lower Bay subway station in Toronto, as well as it's sister, the abandoned Lower Queen station...
Then there's the obvious American version to the abandoned Underground, that being NYC...
http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/
Well, considering I use both the low level trains and the underground every day, I know which is which :)
Perhaps the unused tunnels are actually extensions to the low-level train system, I don't know. What I've heard is mostly word of mouth.
There are some pictures of the Botanic gardens station at http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/botanics.
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Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using
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