Inside abandoned Aldwych station | City Secrets | Time Out
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- Опубликовано: 18 дек 2017
- Aldwych tube station (formerly Strand) opened in 1907. It was used as a shelter during the Blitz, and more recently as a film location after its closure in 1994. Time Out got a bit of a peek into the secret tunnels and platforms of the station.
140 steps... geoff would tell you thats a 15 storey building!!
At covernt garden there’s 193 steps and that says it 15 stories my and my bro ran up and down it yesterday
Matthew Dunderdale - the amount of people utterly confused by this comment is the most glorious part
Of course, all tube stations are the equivalent number of steps as a 15 storey building.
15 storey building? 😮 I live on the 5th floor (ground fl.+ 4 fl.) and it's 109 steps. Yes, it's an old apartment building with quite high ceilings, something around 3.5 m. But still, 15 floors must have more stairs.
Then a storey is 9.333333 steps?!
1:33 £12 for a weekly all zone travel card ! Nowadays, it costs the same for a 1 day one.
Yes sir
inflation makes it £20.83
@evolving minds BRUH MOMENT
Subtle increase !
I'm glad i'm 65 and get The Freedom Pass !
Is it called inflation or greed, can’t work which
She is like a female Geoff Marshall but it would be great to let him in there.
crayzmarc Vicki pipe is the female Geoff tho
@@althafrafianto ye
Vici pipe is the female Geoff Marshall and he has been down there
@@edwardmortimer2150 Vicki is Geoff gf
Definitely
I managed to get in here once, and it is absolutely amazing, slightly creepy, but it is so cool! The best part is that because it was only abandoned around 30 years ago and still used as a film set, it is in amazing condition. Also, when I went down there, I found some bullet casings, so I think that the MET, or BTP might use it for training.
Harry L more likely the casings were from films
@@GuinessOriginal They were the right caliber to be police weapons, I think the four services grouped together and used it for a major counter terrorism exercise quite a few years ago.
Did you sneak in? Or did you go through a tour
@@afniad426 Friend's dad works for Babcock, they were helping the LFB set up a small scale exercise, was allowed along to help set it up. We went with a London Underground employee who also gave a whistle-stop tour, it was amazing
I walk past this station every day as my University is right next door. I was always curious how this looked from the inside so this is fascinating, thank you.
And yet there’s a train always sitting there
Prodigy's "Firestarter" videoclip was also filmed in Aldwych. RIP Keith Flint and thank you for the mad energy.
I used the Holborn to Aldwych line as part of my commute in 1982 to 1985 - the lift did get stuck one morning but I can't now remember whether we escaped to the adjacent one or it just got going again. The line used to operate at peak hours, closing about 0930 and starting up again about 1600 as I recall. We were an exclusive bunch of users which is why I suspect it shut; there simply wasn't enough custom to make it pay.
Great that this has been kept how it is!!
Having been pushed further away from London by the housing market many years ago,I was unaware until seeing some of these videos of some of the stations that used to be familiar on the Tube map as recently as the 80s have since been closed.
I went on the Aldwhich line before it closed in 1994 . To think it’s still preserved is amazing.
Remarkably well preserved it should be a museum
iirc the Underground still maintains disused stations as escape routes or tunnel maintenance crews, much like how some of the stations that closed in the 30's and 40's still has certain things maintained or replaced in them so they're not hazardous.
It's used for filming and training
Too much paperwork
So sad. Seen from the video, this station was awesome one with lifts and toilets.
I live nearby Lea Bridge Station, East London. It was closed for 30 years, they opened it in 2016. Very useful station.
Brilliant video. Bringing back lots of special memories of when I was lucky enough to be able to explore this amazing station with the brilliant Hidden London Tours. So atmospheric. Tiles, lifts, old posters- The smell, sound & stories. You can feel the history. The old platform no2 - particularly creepy....
I just can't avoid to think that this would be a GREAT nightclub
I'd name it Heaven The II.
Lucas De David that mister is a fucking great idea
Didn't that already been done by some one a few years ago
The hard surfaces and echo would totally ruin the sound of any music.
Named, "The station"
Thanks for recording this! I love abandoned buildings!
InSomniaArmyCheshire MooMooReveluvMeU yes, they have a certain mystique.
Yay, I'm not the only one! My liking extends to just about anything in a state of disrepair.
Closed or abandoned?
Did this a few years ago. Absolutely brilliant!
Respect to the lady there knowing all this stuff, wonder how much knowledge she's got
BEAUTIFUL! I used to work for a company servicing all the ticket machines etc later i was a train engineer on the District line i got take to one derelict station but always wanted to see Aldwych 😕 great video
When I was a kid in the 60's living on the South Coast of England I used to go up to London on a day trip. I'm sure that ' Strand' was one of the underground stations we'd head to, having got off the overground at Charring Cross. I certainly remember those lifts. And, I think, a Lyons Corner House nearby.
Great to see this.
"Strand" in the 60s would have been a different station. This station was opened as "Strand", but was renamed Aldwych in the 1910s as the Northern line was extended causing an issue where it had 2 stations known as "Charring Cross". Thus one was renamed to Strand, the other kept Charring Cross - thus the station in the video was renamed to avoid confusion given it was a very minor station.
Garfie489 thanks for the update :-)
@@mrquordlepleen It's not the most straightforward of histories! www.citymetric.com/transport/long-and-confusing-history-explains-why-charing-cross-and-embankment-are-so-weird-3650
I just those Lyons Corner Houses and the Nippies (Waitresses).
My bro was on the last train there and got the ticket signed by the train driver
Short film but incredibly informative! Thank you very much for sharing 😊
I have absolutely no idea how I ended up looking at this video but it was very nicely done. Good job.
Thank you, enjoyed the short but informative tour.
*Oddly Satisfying to watch. I like that to see how beautifully abandoned places like that! 💝*
There is something terrifying about disused Tube stations!
Wow! Amazing stuff 👏
This station always used in films
So is charing cross jubilee complex. Was used in Bourne ultimatum and james bond sky fall.
Narnia too
V for Vendetta to name one.
Die Another Day James Bond Movie 2002
RUclips and their bloody adverts. Thanks timeout x
great video realy intresting to see all that history
Enjoyed that bit of history 😊
Great vid apart from cutting the woman off so many times! Would have loved to have seen and heard more. A friend of mine went on the tour he said it was great.
I love stuff like this, this used to be my station when l worked in Commercial Street. I also used to get off at the original Shoreditch station also now closed. It was the end of the line, the station master was a lovely old Black fella who had a station cat and flower baskets. Those were great times in London in the 80's. I much preferred the dickensian feel to London then, now its spoilt - just my opinion.
Why did The Aldwych offshoot station close Mark ?
@@Isleofskye didn't they say in the vid it was'nt used enough? Also Xrail had a lot to do with closures as they couldn't link the old stations up on the new lines?
Yes, Mark.
" Low passenger numbers,the station service was offered only during weekday peak hours from 1962 and discontinued in 1994 when the cost of replacing the lifts was considered too high for the income generated."...
This is so interesting. I wonder whyyyy this hasn't not more likes...
Nice video, used that station a few times back in the day. Cool its been left alone, lets hope it stays that way for a long time
WOW, what a place there are is!
Was stuck in this damn station for DAYS..... in Tomb Raider. 😁
Wow I've never seen any abandoned stations like that before in my entire life. It looks kinda haunting but also amazing.
Greetings from Ireland
Wow, memories, I used to travel from this station when I worked in London in 1983.
Very interesting vlog thanks for sharing i once played a tomb raider game on pc which one of the levels was in aldwych tube station with great scale to the real thing,
Interesting clip, thanks for sharing
Fascinating piece of history frozen in time.
Very interesting video.
You would call this the Savoy Hotel for the underground mouse population... Lol
You might think, but in reality it would be like a hotel with no restaurant. There's no passengers there, so no one dropping crumbs and half eaten sandwiches, so nothing for them to eat. They stay away and live where the food is, which is why you sometimes see them on the tracks at other stations, even on platforms if there are fewer people about. If people had a bit more respect for their surroundings and dropped less litter and food, there would be less of a rodent problem everywhere, not just in stations.
So interesting thank you 😊
Incredible
Wow! This a really something.
I love abandoned train stations
Exactly! :)
Looks in better shape than most stations that are open.
It's not abandoned, just unused by the public. It is still very much in use by TfL for a variety of purposes ranging from (amongst others) anti terrorist training to being a film location
I agree, I believe it is technically it is classed as disused. Abandoned would, as I understand it, mean left without ownership and/or maintenance.
The Prodigy used the tunnel for filming Firestarter
Interesting to see abandoned station 🚉😀
This station is CLOSED, not ABANDONED.
Same thing
@@vitorcouto3322 Same thing if you are ILLITERATE.
Goodness you’re rude..
@@robkoziorowski7637 I have little time for illiterates.
Anyone with even rudimentary intelligence, and the Internet available at his fingertips, would seek out the difference between Closed and Abandoned.
Not this clown. No knowledge, no thirst for knowledge.
There's a difference!!!!!!!! Fake ass clickbaiters
Wow I gotta as someone who likes to look abandoned subway stations this would be perfect setting for horror movie.
I have very little patience for watching these videos but I wonder why the station was closed as it looks quite good and well maintained compared to some of the ones still open. The train looks nice too
The cost of repairing the lifts was considered to be unviable, for the passenger numbers. Personally feel its wasted opportunity as a walkway could link to Temple and the district and circle lines.
No idea it had closed! I used to use it when I was at King's College, but then I haven't been to that part of London since the early 80s.
'Atonement' was also filmed in here.
Fascinating
Would be cool for a "Backrooms" game segment to complete. 😊 Very interesting tour. Thanks. 👍
Closed the year I was born 😲
Platform 1 was used in the filming of V for Vendetta, where Evey lays V's body on to the train and sends it along the track.
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This is weird to see because, according to the dates given, it closed some 27 years ago whilst I remember travelling through it and in those lifts like it were yesterday. How can so much time pass and I not notice. I would have sworn it was like a max of ten years ago, but 27 years!!!
The train is functional. If you have watched Die Another Day, just remember that the abandoned tube station that went by the name of Vauxhall cross, was actually this.
YeetusД Feetus Nope, that was a set at Pinewood Studios.
Yes I’ve had the pleasure of actually driving this train at this location. The end of the tunnel (to the right) is a dead end, the prodigy firestarter & James Bond plus many others have been filmed there!
Is there a reason why it's just been left down there? Is it used for training of some sort? Presumably they could get it out if they wanted to.
Even abandoned train there, so cool
The train is not abandoned and is still in use today for training purposes. Aldwych station was a single station spur line from Holborn on the Piccadilly line. The train that is there is an old Northern line stock which is identical in many ways to the current Bakerloo line stock, which is why train maintainers from Stonebridge park maintain it
It is so good
Yes I agree. This station is closed rather than abandoned.
The Prodigy recorded Firestarter video in the tunnels there.
Mornington Crescent closed before Aldwych but was reopened because of a campaign. Maybe the same can be done for Aldwych?
Mornington Crescent was closed for refurbishment, and isn't on a spur branch
At Lambeth North station they had lifts like that, oddly you entered one end and exited out the other end . Always had a certain smell , like warm air.
That train reminds me of a Metro-Camel. I see those all the time, much more cramped than other tubes or even DLRs.
Glass Of Milk Studios 1972 Mk1 stock
Metro-Camel did actually build the 1972 stock tube trains so this is one of theirs
The Prodigy filmed their video for Firestarter in the tunnel :)
I went on that line when I was working in the UK in 1973.
What’s going to happen to the 1972 tube stock just lying there? I hope she’ll be preserved👍👍
It is preserved right here on display for vistors to see.
DEAN WATERS many thanks, I’ll have to visit👍
Or reused in all its glory like the old stock still operating on the Isle of Wight
When bekerloo gets new trains this will be the last 72 stock not converted
@@rebelwithoutapplause5629 d stock will replace the 38 stock RIP 1938-2021
Did some projection in their once. Had a great day until we had to carry them back up the stairs
i used it ione evening in the last week it was open, had a whole tube train to myself 'til the first stop.
So THAT is why it closed John !
Lack of users..
I wanted to go to Aldwych back in 1991 , but my Polish Fiance objected , saying it's not the pace to go whilst on holidays , and after I've seen some of the Footage of the place , I thank , God , I never went !
Tomb Raider 3
All I could hear while watching this video is Fire Starter by The Prodigy. Who else got this?
100% correct ;-) www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/prodigys-iconic-music-videos-2456768
Yep! I was waiting for the woman to say about it but it seems rave music is lost on some people.
Cleaner than chambers street, which looks as if it was abandoned 50 years ago.
Which Chambers Street? There were 3 named Chambers Street
@@mattthegamerhongkong6948 you know what chambers street
@@sd8313 I don't live in NYC. The one on the J/Z, or the one on the A/C?
MattTheGamerHongKong I’m pretty sure the one on the a/c
Wow .... ;)
So where was it? On the Northern Line? Between what stops?
It was on the Piccadilly line on a small branch with its closest connected neighbour being Holborn. Other close stations include Covent Garden, Leicester Square and Temple.
I remember"aldwych for the strand"was a labelto be seen on old lut maps.
You can go on tours there.
ok
Creepy.
I frankly don't know how the lifts don't meet modern standards. I think they are better than modern ones. I mean, they have a safe escape hatch when it breaks down.
Why did the station close? It seems such a complete station with lifts, toilets and firefighter training base.
Aldwych was located on a weird, one station branch of the Picadilly line. It never got a regular service, and you were always required to transfer to get anywhere from there. Which means passenger numbers were low, and it didn't justify the expense of keeping the shuttle service running and the station open. It's now frequently used for filming scenes in movies and shows
It was a mainly PEAK station, and the lifts needed replacing, and they could not justify the cost of replacement to the income from the station, so it was closed.
You can see the Station in the movie, V for vendetta, as well as The Prodigy's Firestarter.
The final factor being the cost of maintaining the lifts so it just was not viable for all those combined reasons..
The cost of maintenance against the number of passengers. Sadly London Underground decided it wasn't worth spending the money. That said, if they applied that formula to every station about 30% of tube stations would close
I have been there many many yrs back when I was a very young man a boy really living in London, only seeing this video now after nearly 50 yrs I can't remember where Strand was . Was it near to Piccadilly circus?
More next to the Aldwych and The Savoy Hotel and The Courts of Justice! UK🇬🇧
That ex Northern line 1972mk1 4 car unit has now been scrapped with its components removed as spare parts
I was going to Heathrow once, and it went past at such high speed. It was definitely abandoned with yellow/black tape and vines
You can not have 'gone past' Aldwych, let alone do so at high speed. The station is on a single station spur. Trains to Heathrow never went past it, because they couldn't, without a reversal. It's conceivable that trains to Heathrow may have /started/ there, but 'past' it is not possible.
@@quantisedspace7047 Oh, but I do remember going a past an abandoned station, probably not Aldwych
@@twopercentbatteryOsterley & Spring Grove? (Closed 1934, the station building is now a book shop)
Aldwych Station is said to be haunted by the ghost of an actor who once "trod the boards" of the Strand Theatre, from which the station got its original name before being changed to Aldwych. Early in its run, the now-totally-discredited "Most Haunted" TV series covered this station in its first or second season.
creepy space that is.
RIP Aldwych station 1994 🌹
I came here after playing tombraider 3 and was surprised to find out Aldwych station's real! I wonder if they do any tours...
same surprised to see its real and abandoned too, just like TR3
They do! You just have to buy the tickets on the London Transport Museum Website (I think)
Would be interesting to lear more about it. Why is there an unfinished part of the station when the rest is already closed? Why they planed it so big, when it is no longer in use? What were the plans for this station?
Was there any other station in London that had these old lifts after 1994? Which time the last original lifts went out of service?
The history is the Piccadilly was made up of the merger of 3 separate lines. The project was taken over by the District railway during construction, and so a connection was made at Holborn between two of these planned lines.
Aldwych was the original planned terminus of one line, and was still built to its original spec despite now becoming a branch line. Presumably they needed to build to the original plans, but never connected the tunnels up.
I think all of these style of lifts have been replaced now (most of these lifts were of wooden construction) with modern ones.
I live a 5 minute walk from there in Fleet Street. Does anyone know if it's open for tours?
Yes, but very rare and hard to get
Keep an eye out for what is called Open House Weekend. This is when various places that are not normally open to the public do tours etc.
TfL sites that are usually included are Aldwych, Down Street and occasionally the deep level shelters
I learned this from Tomb Raider 3 London mission
Same! I'm glad to finally see a comment about one of my favorite Tomb Raider games
Aye , a personal fave of mine too, best ambience also of all the TR games
You guys seen the 'down street station ' level from N64 game Shadowman
Same eerie vibes
Is this the station where they filmed creep ?
@CURTIS8516 I think it is, I mean that movie was made in 2005 and the station has been closed for a while now? So its perfect for filming the movie there
Paranormal investigators paradise places like these, yet another haunted tunnel in and around LONDON. July 2021😎😱😎😱🇬🇧🇬🇧
Why did it close?
Perfect for a COD map!!!!!
This is the station featured in The Kinks song/video "do it again"
I'm creating an intricate model of the Aldwych Branch, so can someone tell me. Is that grey and red train in Aldwych a 1972 or 1973 stock?
A 1972 stock
It's ironic that 1972 stock presented here like "historic" and "haunted", yet it's still running on Bakerloo and nobody even paying attention on how it's old...