On 29/06/2012 22:17, Peter Masson wrote:


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I can do you one better; They decided to shutter South Kentish Town on
what is now the London Underground's Northern Line in one afternoon in
in June of 1924, and promptly acted on that decision. The station was
temporarily closed that afternoon because of industrial action at a
local power supplier, and they simply never re-opened it.

Nearby Kentish Town West closed suddenly in April 1971 (because it burnt
down), and in 1976 the closure was announced as permanent (though I
don't think closure formalities were ever completed). However, it
reopened in 1981.

Peter
Those were extraordinary circumstances, and the same could be said for
Intervale Avenue, on the New York City Subway's White Plains Road Line,
when it was burned down in 1989. Indeed, the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority had even considered not rebuilding the station, according to
Wikipedia, though public outcry prevented that from happening.

There was nothing wrong with South Kentish Town as a station when they
decided to shutter it.