Aldwych Station London 1907 - 1994 RIP

Aldwych station as seen shortly before closure.

This video includes internal and external views of the station. Internal views include trains, platforms, ticket hall / booking office, some passageways, a lift (plus ride inside).

Also seen is one of the dedicated Aldwych branch platforms at Holborn station.

More information about Aldwych station and its history can be found on this website.

http://underground-history.co.uk/aldwych.php

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[kzbxvz]

The seemingly pointless Aldwych branch of the Picadilly line finally closed in 1994. But maybe Aldwych will reopen in the next decade, not as a tube station but as a DLR one. The London Underground is by far the oldest subway system (1863) in the world and the most charming and soulful too. Mind the gap!!!

[citytransportinfo]

@kzbxvz yes I've heard this too, with the DLR also using the former Jubilee Line platforms at Charing Cross - although the tunnels might need enlarging to be suitable for the DLR's much larger trains.

At one time LT had the required legal powers to extend this line down to Waterloo; had they done this it would have made the line more useful. Whether such a short shuttle would have been commercially viable would have been a different thing?

Simon

[Cazkumali]

@citytransportinfo I wonder if Aldwych station will reopen in the future

[citytransportinfo]

@Cazkumali 'never say never', but with the present financial situation its hard to see this happening.

I've seen it said that maybe oneday the DLR might be extended from Bank to the disused Jubilee Line platforms at Charing Cross, and I suppose that it is possible that Aldwych could be used as an intyermediate station - especially the station building, as the platforms would be on a different alignment.

[f1baker]

@citytransportinfo I'm not surprised mine was one of only 2 left, both on the friday. if I remember I'll film and put on my channel if i remember...

[citytransportinfo]

@f1baker

that would be great!

If you send it to me as a video response then it can be linked from here too.

Simon

[CoolDudeClem]

It's been years since I've been on the London underground. Accoring to Tomb Raider 3, Aldwich station is now where the dammed live, a group of people who offered to take part in a science experiment which ultimatly ended up with them living down thare with no faces.

[diamonddust22]

Didn't I just see Lara Croft here a while back?

[PostTower]

these old lifts are just wonderful. Do you know which company built them?

[NEXPAR]

I am lovin' that lift! Glad it was never modernized. It sure would be great to make museums out of these disused stations as historic monuments.

[BungleZippie]

@Bignadim They only had one employee to operate the lift and collect tickets. So only one lift was used at a time.

[007bondspy]

@citytransportinfo Have you opened your back side up recently to let Simon up it ?

[kzbxvz]

@citytransportinfo I was in London in 1992, and I'm still today haunted by the fact that I never visited the still operating Aldwych underground station :(

[lanswipe]

1:03 - boris johnston!!! :O

[lanswipe]

1:03 - boris johnston!

[Bignadim]

love how those numbers move up and down to indicate lift movements and what happended to lift 2?

[flegreo1961]

Lara Croft seems to come at any moment