Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

London Underground's David Leboff offers a guided tour round St Mary's
in East London, which closed in 1938, and is one of the tube network's
least well-known or visited disused stations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10612599

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On Jul 15, 11:34*am, CJB wrote:
London Underground's David Leboff offers a guided tour round St Mary's
in East London

Thanks. Never seen it before.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On Jul 15, 5:25*am, Michael Bell wrote:
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* * * * * CJB wrote:

London Underground's David Leboff offers a guided tour round St Mary's
in East London, which closed in 1938, and is one of the tube network's
least well-known or visited disused stations.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10612599

OO-er. Is that the one that featured in the Quatermass film?

No, that was Hobbs End.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

I see they make reference to this "unknown" station, or something like that.

Seems the taggers know all about it though and can find their way inside.


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Roger Traviss

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Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

"Roger Traviss" wrote in message
news:wtSdnWo827P9yKLRnZ2dnUVZ_oidnZ2d@islandhostin g.com...
I see they make reference to this "unknown" station, or something like
that.

Seems the taggers know all about it though and can find their way inside.

Well it wasn't one of the ones that I was aware of, such as Aldwych, Down
Street or Marlborough Road. But sure enough it's listed in Abandoned
Stations on London's Underground, J E Connor, 0-947-69930-9 and some of the
photos for its entry in there were used in the BBC news report.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

"Roger Traviss" wrote in message
news:wtSdnWo827P9yKLRnZ2dnUVZ_oidnZ2d@islandhostin g.com...
I see they make reference to this "unknown" station, or something like
that.

Seems the taggers know all about it though and can find their way inside.

You may have missed it at the time, but a few years ago graffiti 'artists'
wrecked a central area deep tube station during Christmas Day, apparently
despite all the supposed continuous CCTV surveillance they'd just walked the
few miles down the tracks from one of the portals.

Paul

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On Jul 15, 7:50*pm, "Mortimer" wrote:
"Roger Traviss" wrote in message

news:wtSdnWo827P9yKLRnZ2dnUVZ_oidnZ2d@islandhostin g.com...

I see they make reference to this "unknown" station, or something like
that.

Seems the taggers know all about it though and can find their way inside.

Well it wasn't one of the ones that I was aware of, such as Aldwych, Down
Street or Marlborough Road. But sure enough it's listed in Abandoned
Stations on London's Underground, J E Connor, 0-947-69930-9 and some of the
photos for its entry in there were used in the BBC news report.

Aldwych was interesting too, for the exhibition of the future (or
whatever). The two lifts were fixed at the entrance level, and I'd
forgoten that they were not exactly square but somewhat trapezoidal in
floor area. Seemed like the entrance was clean and looked after. It
was even possible to visit and use the 1930s style public loos. CJB.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On Jul 15, 6:01*pm, doctor teeth wrote:
On Jul 15, 11:34*am, CJB wrote:

London Underground's David Leboff offers a guided tour round St Mary's
in East London

Thanks. Never seen it before.

Also see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary's_tube_station

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On Jul 15, 7:51*pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

"Roger Traviss" wrote:

I see they make reference to this "unknown" station, or something like
that.

Seems the taggers know all about it though and can find their way inside.

You may have missed it at the time, but a few years ago graffiti 'artists'
wrecked a central area deep tube station during Christmas Day, *apparently
despite all the supposed continuous CCTV surveillance they'd just walked the
few miles down the tracks from one of the portals.

Camden Town was a notable one, and others have been 'done' as well.
CCTV surveillance ain't going to help much if someone isn't watching
it! (Of course it might be useful to rewind the tape, but one rather
suspects the sprayers were savvy to the watching eyes.) There was
stuff said at Christmas just gone about how better security measures
were to be in place on the 25th, and as I recall there wasn't a
recurrence.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On 15 July, 23:07, CJB wrote:


they were not exactly square but somewhat trapezoidal in
floor area.

Wasn't that to fit a pair of lift cars into a circular shaft?