"juvenal" wrote in message ...
If you restored the disused station as an early Yerkes station, used the
station and the second tunnel to Holborn as a Tube museum, and redeveloped
the parts of the station that were never used as larger tunnels with small
retail outlets (along the lines of an undeground Covent Garden) with a
second Strand entrance, then you might have enough passengers to restore the
lifts (although it would be shame to remove them). If it really took off,
you could even put platforms on the JL oveerun from CX to Aldwych!

Beack in the realms of reality, though, you're probably right in thinking
that it probably wouldn't be able to pay it's way.

Its not unrealistic. Thats exactly how the NYC Transit museum is set up. Its
based in an old disused subway station on a spur from the main line and in
the platforms they've got lots of old stock that you can wander around in.
Aldwych would be a squeeze but CX would be perfect for this (well , for showing
tube stock at any rate).

B2003

"Boltar" wrote in message
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Its not unrealistic. Thats exactly how the NYC Transit
museum is set up. Its based in an old disused subway
station on a spur from the main line and in the platforms
they've got lots of old stock that you can wander around in.

I presume that is not a tube line, but a shallow skirt-blower line, from
which emergency exit could be made by the most asthmatic in about a minute.
The moribund Thameslink line from Farringdon to Moorgate could probably
become a museum, but for the deep tube Aldwych station with no lift or
escalator it is not practical.

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John Rowland wrote:
Its not unrealistic. Thats exactly how the NYC Transit
museum is set up. Its based in an old disused subway
station on a spur from the main line and in the platforms
they've got lots of old stock that you can wander around in.

I presume that is not a tube line, but a shallow skirt-blower line, from
which emergency exit could be made by the most asthmatic in about a minute.
The moribund Thameslink line from Farringdon to Moorgate could probably
become a museum, but for the deep tube Aldwych station with no lift or
escalator it is not practical.

From memory (and I only went there in December) you walk down one set
of stairs to get to the museum's mezzanine level, and then a further set
of stairs down to the platforms.

I think the station is called State, but I might be wrong - it is
directly below a big court house.

http://mta.info/mta/museum/index.html

The platform level appears to have one of each car for the history of
the subway, so you can start at one end and walk right through the whole
history of the trains. (What's rather more enjoyable are the photographs
of some of the old generating stations, which were in a temporary photo
gallery when I was there).