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St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) tube station shortly after its closure in 1938
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St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) tube station shortly after its closure in 1938

There are several dozen permanently closed London Underground stations across the London Underground ("tube") network. Some were simply built too near to other stations to be useful; others experienced too little use to make their retention worthwhile, or became redundant after lines were rerouted. Some of the closed stations retain their original station façades, while others have been demolished to make way for shops. At least one is now used for filming and exhibition purposes. A number of other stations, while still open, have closed platforms or sections.

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Permanently closed stations

These stations of the London Underground and its predecessor companies (such as the Metropolitan Railway, the City and South London Railway and Underground Electric Railways of London) are now closed and, for the most part, abandoned: The following stations were all located at the far end of the Metropolitan Line:

Open stations with closed sections

The following tube stations have closed platforms:

Temporarily closed stations

Mainline stations formerly served by Underground trains

Note: Moorgate, Old Street, Highbury & Islington and Finsbury Park were also served by Underground trains on this line and are still served by other Underground Lines.
  • Stations beyond Harrow & Wealdstone, formerly served by the Bakerloo Line, now served by Silverlink:
  • *Headstone Lane
  • *Hatch End
  • *Carpenders Park
  • *Bushey and Oxhey
  • *Watford High Street
  • *Watford Junction
    • Note: It is expected that these stations will transfer back to the Bakerloo line when management of the North London Railways franchise is transferred from the Department for Transport to Transport for London.

    Stations that never opened

    Some tube stations were only partially constructed, and never opened:

    Stations that were planned to become part of the Underground

    The above Northern Line extension to Bushey was part of the of the 1930s. Part of this plan was for the Northern Line to take over existing LNER lines in north London. This was completed from East Finchley to High Barnet and Mill Hill East but the project was halted by the outbreak of the Second World War and financial cutbacks after the war meant that the project was not restarted and a number of stations were never incorporated:
    Note: The original surface part of Highgate station between Crouch End and Cranley Gardens also closed although the newer Underground section remains open.
    Denham station was to have been the original terminus of the western extension of the Central Line but the introduction of Green Belt legislation caused the extension to be cut back to West Ruislip.

    Fictitious stations

    The following stations are fictitious:

    Other underground non-tube stations

    The following tramway stations were not part of the tube network but were underground: both stations were part of the Kingsway tramway subway

    See also

    References

    J. E. Connor, London's Disused Underground Stations, Capital Transport, 2001 (2nd edition)

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