Aldwych / Strand Underground
 

A secret disused underground station that was used by thousands of
Londoners during the Blitz has been opened up for rare public viewing.

Visitors have been able to take a tour of the Aldwych Tube Station,
one of London's closed underground stations, which included a platform
which stopped operating in 1914.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Atonement.html

Aldwych / Strand Underground
 

"CJB" wrote in message
...
A secret disused underground station that was used by thousands of
Londoners during the Blitz has been opened up for rare public viewing.

Visitors have been able to take a tour of the Aldwych Tube Station,
one of London's closed underground stations, which included a platform
which stopped operating in 1914.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Atonement.html

In the second picture the Station Closed signs partly obscure the letters "A
N"

What word were these letters a part of, I wonder?
--
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."

Aldwych / Strand Underground
 

Secret from who?

Aldwych / Strand Underground
 

StrANd.

Aldwych / Strand Underground
 

"Brian Watson" wrote

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Atonement.html

In the second picture the Station Closed signs partly obscure the letters
"A N"

What word were these letters a part of, I wonder?

Strand - the original name of the station. It was changed to Aldwych in
1915.

Marylebone (Bakerloo Line) still has tiles proclaiming its original name -
Great Central.

Peter

Aldwych / Strand Underground
 

In message , at
22:52:32 on Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Offramp remarked:

Secret from who?

Ignorant journalists
--
Roland Perry

Aldwych / Strand Underground
 

On Dec 3, 3:51*am, CJB wrote:
A secret disused underground station that was used by thousands of
Londoners during the Blitz has been opened up for rare public viewing.

Visitors have been able to take a tour of the Aldwych Tube Station,
one of London's closed underground stations, which included a platform
which stopped operating in 1914.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ghost-Undergro...

In what sense is it secret? The surface building is there for all to
see, and was in regular service until the mid '90s (even if not very
popular). Just about any holywood movie set in London seems to
feature it.

BTW anyone know which line was used in the recent Bond? They seemed
to claim that a Tube station served by either '95 or '96 tube stock
was the circle/district.

Robin

Aldwych / Strand Underground
 

In message
, at
04:35:49 on Mon, 3 Dec 2012, bob remarked:
BTW anyone know which line was used in the recent Bond? They seemed
to claim that a Tube station served by either '95 or '96 tube stock
was the circle/district.

Charing Cross Jubilee Line for the platforms, and Charing Cross Northern
Line for the concourse shots. The concourse location was filmed
overnight on the 8th December last year.

(Charing Cross Bakerloo is of course the former Trafalgar Square
station.)
--
Roland Perry

Aldwych / Strand Underground
 

On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:14:13 +0000
wrote:
I gave up buying and reading newspapers years ago,when you see the
rubbish written about things you do know something about, how can you
trust what is written on things you don't know about.

Very true. Though the problem isn't just in print media, you see similar
ignorant rubbish being spouted on radio and to a lesser extent TV.

B2003

Aldwych / Strand Underground
 

On Dec 3, 1:49*pm, Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
04:35:49 on Mon, 3 Dec 2012, bob remarked:

BTW anyone know which line was used in the recent Bond? *They seemed
to claim that a Tube station served by either '95 or '96 tube stock
was the circle/district.

Charing Cross Jubilee Line for the platforms, and Charing Cross Northern
Line for the concourse shots. The concourse location was filmed
overnight on the 8th December last year.

(Charing Cross Bakerloo is of course the former Trafalgar Square
station.)

Thanks, that makes sense, and presumably it was '96 tube stock in that
case, as it is fairly easy to get there (I didn't pay close enough
attention to catch any of the usual distinguishing features, I was too
busy enjoying the film). In the past I used to ues Charring Cross
quite frequently, so I'm familiar with the station, though in pre-JLE
days rarely had cause to use that line, so don't particularly recall
the platforms.

Robin