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Ghost Stations of the London Underground

Posted by chrisd on from the they're-just-waiting-for-gaiman dept.

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)."

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  1. Mornington Crescent! by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 4, Funny


    I win!

    1. Re:Mornington Crescent! by meringuoid · · Score: 2, Funny
      Heh! I guess the moderators haven't heard of Mornington Crescent. This comment couldn't be more on-topic if it tried.

      Well, they probably haven't heard of it because there was a major contractual wrangle between the the IAMCP (Imperial Association of Mornington Crescent Players) and the AUMCO (American United Mornington Crescent Organisation) over who had rights to radio broadcasts, in the early thirties. The IAMCP won and sold the rights to the BBC for a comparatively small sum, while the AUMCO broke away and renamed the game after the stations of New York. Bit like the way Monopoly was rewritten with London streets for the UK edition. Sadly, since then, what with one ruling and another over the years, the American and British versions have become quite mutually unintelligible.

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    2. Re:Mornington Crescent! by Big+Sean+O · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sorry, that abandoned station is above the diagonal. According to the Hamwich Convention of 1954, moves from abandoned stations to Mornington Crescent have to transit the Central line.

      so there...

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    3. Re:Mornington Crescent! by cscx · · Score: 4, Funny

      Jasmina: Anyway, John, you can catch the 11.30 from Hornchurch and be in Basingstoke by one o'clock, oh, and there's a buffet car and... (sees corpse) oh! Daddy!
      John: My hat! Sir Horace!
      Jasmina: (not daring to look) Has he been...
      John: Yes - after breakfast. But that doesn't matter now... he's dead.
      Jasmina: Oh! Poor daddy...
      John: Looks like I shan't be catching the 11.30 now.
      Jasmina: Oh no, John, you mustn't miss your train.
      John: How could I think of catching a train when I should be here helping you?
      Jasmina: Oh, John, thank you... anyway you could always catch the 9.30 tomorrow - it goes via Caterham and Chipstead.
      John: Or the 9.45's even better.
      Jasmina: Oh, but you'd have to change at Lambs Green.
      John: Yes, but there's only a seven-minute wait now.
      Jasmina: Oh, yes, of course, I'd forgotten it was Friday. Oh, who could have done this.
      (Enter Lady Partridge.)
      Lady Partridge: Oh, do hurry Sir Horace, your train leaves in twenty-eight minutes, and if you miss the 10.15 you won't catch the 3.45 which means ... oh!
      John: I'm afraid Sir Horace won't be catching the 10.15, Lady Partridge.
      Lady Partridge: Has he been... ?
      Jasmina: Yes - after breakfast.
      John: Lady Partridge, I'm afraid you can cancel his seat reservation.
      Lady Partridge: Oh, and it was back to the engine - fourth coach along so that he could see the gradient signs outside Swanborough.
      John: Not any more Lady Partridge... the line's been closed.
      Lady Partridge: Closed! Not Swanborough!
      John: I'm afraid so.
      (Enter Inspector Davis.)
      Inspector: All fight, nobody move. I'm Inspector Davis of Scotland Yard.
      John: My word, you were here quickly, inspector.
      Inspector: Yeah, I got the 8.55 Pullman Express from King's Cross and missed that bit around Hornchurch.
      Lady Partridge: It's a very good train.
      All: Excellent, very good, delightful.
      (Tony runs in through the french windows. He wears white flannels and boater and is jolly upper-class.)
      Tony: Hello everyone.
      All: Tony!
      Tony: Where's daddy? (seeing him) Oh golly! Has he been... ?
      John and Jasmina: Yes, after breakfast.
      Tony: Then ... he won't be needing his reservation on the 10.15.
      John: Exactly.
      Tony: And I suppose as his eldest son it must go to me.
      Inspector: Just a minute, Tony There's a small matter of... murder.
      Tony: Oh, but surely he simply shot himself and then hid the gun.
      Lady Partridge: How could anyone shoot himself and then hide the gun without first cancelling his reservation.
      Tony: Ha, ha! Well, I must dash or I'll be late for the 10.15.
      Inspector: I suggest yOu murdered your father for his seat reservation.
      Tony: I may have had the motive, inspector, but I could not have done it, for I have only just arrived from Gillingham on the 8.13 and here's my restaurant car ticket to prove it.
      Jasmina: The 8. 13 from Gillingham doesn't have a restaurant car.
      John: It's a standing buffet only.
      Tony: Oh, er... did I say the 8.13, I meant the 7.58 stopping train.
      Lady Partridge: But the 7.58 stopping train arrived at Swindon at 8.19 owing to annual point maintenance at Wisborough Junction.
      John: So how did you make the connection with the 8. I3 which left six minutes earlier?
      Tony: Oh, er, simple! I caught the 7.16 Football Special arriving at Swindon at 8.09.
      Jasmina: But the 7.16 Football Special only stops at Swindon on alternate Saturdays.
      Lady Partridge: Yes, surely you mean the Holidaymaker Special.
      Tony: Oh, yes! How daft of me. Of course I.came on the Holidaymaker Spedal calling at Bedford, Colmworth, Fen Dinon, Sutton, Wallington and Gillingham.
      Inspector:' That's Sundays only!
      Tony: Damn. All fight, I confess I did it. I killed him for his reservation, but you won't take me alive! I'm going to throw myself under the 10.12 from Reading.
      John: Don't be a fool, Tony, don't do it, the 10.12 has the new narrow traction bogies, you wouldn't stand a chance.
      Tony: Exactly.

  2. There are dark and strange things down there... by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... 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!

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  3. The Secret Is Out by drmofe · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  4. abandoned web site by krokodil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Twenty years from know, slashdot.org website
    will be abandoened, with no links leaving to it
    and we are going to rediscover it.

  5. Re:Place for a rave. by Pastor+Fluff · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, but the problem is giving out directions to these parties.

    "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."

    Now just try to get to the drinks without running into a grue.

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  6. I would by JanusFury · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. psychoreactive slime? by capnjack41 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Well do they have rivers of pink psychoreactive slime running through them like we have here in New York?

    I didn't think so.

  8. Re:Very interesting by Maxwell'sSilverLART · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...imagine what New York City would look like after no human inhabitants had been there for five hundred years or more...

    So, in about 480 years, then?

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  9. Re:Very interesting by beebware · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's already happened, why do you think it's called 'New' York? Ever gone in to the sewers and find 'Old York'? Those two cyclops mutants scare even me!

  10. Re:Very interesting by Tumbleweed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cool - then the mutants can battle it out with the CHUDs. I smell a reality tv show here...

  11. Abandoned subways? by grub · · Score: 4, Funny


    There goes /. again. Lots of fluffy pictures but no hard theory as to how to build a beowulf cluster of abandoned subways.

    Man this place is going to the dogs..

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  12. I can't believe noone has started a game of "morni by cliveholloway · · Score: 4, Funny
    My move...

    I'm invoking the 1822 revision of the slave release rule and starting with "Embankment"

    .02

    cLive ;-)

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  13. Re:I can't believe noone has started a game of "mo by The+Mole+2002 · · Score: 2, Funny
    I think there's was a thread but one of the moderators thought it was off topic but they've been advised as to how on topic it was.

    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"

  14. Re:I can't believe noone has started a game of "mo by nagora · · Score: 3, Funny
    In the spirit of the article, I'll start with "British Museum".

    TWW

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