Peter Frimberley wrote:

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The most interesting part of Aldwych station was not the bit you get
if you hire it for filming (since to be honest it just looks like any
other but maybe slightly dated tube platform, which is what filmmakers
want!). No, the other platform that was closed for decades, and the
tunnels to/from it, behind the lift shaft, were much more interesting,
as they were much more "frozen in time" than the more recently closed
parts. There's a few pictures on the sites you linked, showing some of
the areas where they tried out different station finishes, but they
don't really show the whole place. There are some tunnels at Aldwych
which never opened to the public because they just ran out of money,
so they were never fitted out; I think I remember they were had the
lining rings fitted but that was about it. No nice paint, or tiles, or
even lights, and just a barely level floor!

The sites make very little mention of the passageway to Temple, which
I know is there because we walked through it on the tour I did (LT
Museum, years ago), again it was in quite a state of disrepair.


OK - it's the last sentence I'm interested in - the Aldwych to Temple
passageway you talk of.

I ask as your post was the first I'd ever heard of it. I can find no
references to it's existence on the web, and searching usenet has thus
far only led to various threads where contributors talk of past plans
for foot tunnel that never came to fruition.

Such talk does however focus on the possibility of a proper interchange
tunnel for passenger use - whilst the passageway you speak of isn't
public.

If anyone has further information on this please get involved!