140 steps... geoff would tell you thats a 15 storey building!!

@roryjenkins7275

4 жыл бұрын

At covernt garden there’s 193 steps and that says it 15 stories my and my bro ran up and down it yesterday

@elliot7753

4 жыл бұрын

Matthew Dunderdale - the amount of people utterly confused by this comment is the most glorious part

@deathbyteacup

4 жыл бұрын

Of course, all tube stations are the equivalent number of steps as a 15 storey building.

@4ever242

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@goatgamer001

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@stephenstephen6754

4 жыл бұрын

Yes sir

@i0nlz

4 жыл бұрын

inflation makes it £20.83

@i0nlz

4 жыл бұрын

@evolving minds BRUH MOMENT

@Isleofskye

4 жыл бұрын

Subtle increase ! I'm glad i'm 65 and get The Freedom Pass !

@jonny7491

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@althafrafianto

4 жыл бұрын

crayzmarc Vicki pipe is the female Geoff tho

@edwardmortimer2150

4 жыл бұрын

@@althafrafianto ye

@edwardmortimer2150

4 жыл бұрын

Vici pipe is the female Geoff Marshall and he has been down there

@Sayno2ulez

4 жыл бұрын

@@edwardmortimer2150 Vicki is Geoff gf

@DarthCoco

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@GuinessOriginal

4 жыл бұрын

Harry L more likely the casings were from films

@thebluetriangle8700

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@afniad426

Жыл бұрын

Did you sneak in? Or did you go through a tour

@thebluetriangle8700

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@SlapshotLover

2 ай бұрын

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.

Remarkably well preserved it should be a museum

@BackTheNerd

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@MatthewJBD

Жыл бұрын

It's used for filming and training

@johnkelly1083

Жыл бұрын

Too much paperwork

I went on the Aldwhich line before it closed in 1994 . To think it’s still preserved is amazing.

Great that this has been kept how it is!!

@rjjcms1

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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....

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.

Thanks for recording this! I love abandoned buildings!

@jakezywek6852

4 жыл бұрын

InSomniaArmyCheshire MooMooReveluvMeU yes, they have a certain mystique.

@ThingsWithEngines

4 жыл бұрын

Yay, I'm not the only one! My liking extends to just about anything in a state of disrepair.

@kwv4865

Жыл бұрын

Closed or abandoned?

I just can't avoid to think that this would be a GREAT nightclub

@Jeanalexandre_

4 жыл бұрын

I'd name it Heaven The II.

@DerAachener

4 жыл бұрын

Lucas De David that mister is a fucking great idea

@thomas.parnell7365

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't that already been done by some one a few years ago

@thra5herxb12s

4 жыл бұрын

The hard surfaces and echo would totally ruin the sound of any music.

@supergeten2

4 жыл бұрын

Named, "The station"

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.

@Garfie489

4 жыл бұрын

"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.

@mrquordlepleen

4 жыл бұрын

Garfie489 thanks for the update :-)

@11nitrox

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@tonywise198

10 ай бұрын

I just those Lyons Corner Houses and the Nippies (Waitresses).

Did this a few years ago. Absolutely brilliant!

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

Short film but incredibly informative! Thank you very much for sharing 😊

Respect to the lady there knowing all this stuff, wonder how much knowledge she's got

Thank you, enjoyed the short but informative tour.

I have absolutely no idea how I ended up looking at this video but it was very nicely done. Good job.

*Oddly Satisfying to watch. I like that to see how beautifully abandoned places like that! 💝*

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.

@Isleofskye

4 жыл бұрын

Why did The Aldwych offshoot station close Mark ?

@mark.e.p

4 жыл бұрын

@@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?

@Isleofskye

4 жыл бұрын

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."...

Wow! Amazing stuff 👏

There is something terrifying about disused Tube stations!

great video realy intresting to see all that history

This station always used in films

@Toffeeabi81

4 жыл бұрын

So is charing cross jubilee complex. Was used in Bourne ultimatum and james bond sky fall.

@PopCapMusicTrending

4 жыл бұрын

Narnia too

@billharris3650

4 жыл бұрын

V for Vendetta to name one.

@jennybabesgorgonio6101

4 жыл бұрын

Die Another Day James Bond Movie 2002

My bro was on the last train there and got the ticket signed by the train driver

KZread and their bloody adverts. Thanks timeout x

Enjoyed that bit of history 😊

WOW, what a place there are is!

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

This is so interesting. I wonder whyyyy this hasn't not more likes...

Very interesting video.

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.

Wow, memories, I used to travel from this station when I worked in London in 1983.

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

@maninacave

Жыл бұрын

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.

@sparkidee

7 ай бұрын

The Prodigy used the tunnel for filming Firestarter

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,

Was stuck in this damn station for DAYS..... in Tomb Raider. 😁

Interesting clip, thanks for sharing

I love abandoned train stations

@diabloflare8304

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! :)

Fascinating piece of history frozen in time.

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

This station is CLOSED, not ABANDONED.

@vitorcouto3322

4 жыл бұрын

Same thing

@bingola45

4 жыл бұрын

@@vitorcouto3322 Same thing if you are ILLITERATE.

@robkoziorowski7637

4 жыл бұрын

Goodness you’re rude..

@bingola45

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@akuaku3496

4 жыл бұрын

There's a difference!!!!!!!! Fake ass clickbaiters

So interesting thank you 😊

Looks in better shape than most stations that are open.

You would call this the Savoy Hotel for the underground mouse population... Lol

@11nitrox

4 жыл бұрын

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.

Incredible

Wow! This a really something.

Interesting to see abandoned station 🚉😀

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

@stephenbeaven3071

4 жыл бұрын

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.

Wow I gotta as someone who likes to look abandoned subway stations this would be perfect setting for horror movie.

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.

@robdavies8702

4 жыл бұрын

YeetusД Feetus Nope, that was a set at Pinewood Studios.

@clearout5032

4 жыл бұрын

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!

@fredbloggs8072

11 ай бұрын

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.

'Atonement' was also filmed in here.

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.

Fascinating

Even abandoned train there, so cool

@jonnotshared7590

3 жыл бұрын

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

Closed the year I was born 😲

It is so good

Yes I agree. This station is closed rather than abandoned.

The Prodigy recorded Firestarter video in the tunnels there.

Would be cool for a "Backrooms" game segment to complete. 😊 Very interesting tour. Thanks. 👍

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!!!

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. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mY6a2NmHlLvQlsY.html

I went on that line when I was working in the UK in 1973.

Cleaner than chambers street, which looks as if it was abandoned 50 years ago.

@mattthegamerhongkong6948

4 жыл бұрын

Which Chambers Street? There were 3 named Chambers Street

@sd8313

4 жыл бұрын

@@mattthegamerhongkong6948 you know what chambers street

@mattthegamerhongkong6948

4 жыл бұрын

@@sd8313 I don't live in NYC. The one on the J/Z, or the one on the A/C?

@sd8313

4 жыл бұрын

MattTheGamerHongKong I’m pretty sure the one on the a/c

The Prodigy filmed their video for Firestarter in the tunnel :)

Mornington Crescent closed before Aldwych but was reopened because of a campaign. Maybe the same can be done for Aldwych?

@Adam-pu6jg

3 ай бұрын

Mornington Crescent was closed for refurbishment, and isn't on a spur branch

That train reminds me of a Metro-Camel. I see those all the time, much more cramped than other tubes or even DLRs.

@duolingoowl7043

4 жыл бұрын

Glass Of Milk Studios 1972 Mk1 stock

@jonnotshared7590

3 жыл бұрын

Metro-Camel did actually build the 1972 stock tube trains so this is one of theirs

What’s going to happen to the 1972 tube stock just lying there? I hope she’ll be preserved👍👍

@thra5herxb12s

4 жыл бұрын

It is preserved right here on display for vistors to see.

@chillired5389

4 жыл бұрын

DEAN WATERS many thanks, I’ll have to visit👍

@rebelwithoutapplause5629

3 жыл бұрын

Or reused in all its glory like the old stock still operating on the Isle of Wight

@goatgamer001

3 жыл бұрын

When bekerloo gets new trains this will be the last 72 stock not converted

@goatgamer001

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Isleofskye

4 жыл бұрын

So THAT is why it closed John ! Lack of users..

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.

All I could hear while watching this video is Fire Starter by The Prodigy. Who else got this?

@11nitrox

4 жыл бұрын

100% correct ;-) www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/prodigys-iconic-music-videos-2456768

@sparkidee

7 ай бұрын

Yep! I was waiting for the woman to say about it but it seems rave music is lost on some people.

You can go on tours there.

@IseyWasTaken

3 жыл бұрын

ok

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.

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 !

That ex Northern line 1972mk1 4 car unit has now been scrapped with its components removed as spare parts

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.

Tomb Raider 3

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...

Wow .... ;)

I remember"aldwych for the strand"was a labelto be seen on old lut maps.

Creepy.

creepy space that is.

I learned this from Tomb Raider 3 London mission

@Lindblum_Castle

3 жыл бұрын

Same! I'm glad to finally see a comment about one of my favorite Tomb Raider games

@dorkbrandon4422

Жыл бұрын

Aye , a personal fave of mine too, best ambience also of all the TR games

@dorkbrandon4422

Жыл бұрын

You guys seen the 'down street station ' level from N64 game Shadowman Same eerie vibes

That looks creepy af

I was going to Heathrow once, and it went past at such high speed. It was definitely abandoned with yellow/black tape and vines

@quantisedspace7047

11 ай бұрын

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.

@twopercentbattery

11 ай бұрын

@@quantisedspace7047 Oh, but I do remember going a past an abandoned station, probably not Aldwych

@Adam-pu6jg

3 ай бұрын

​@@twopercentbatteryOsterley & Spring Grove? (Closed 1934, the station building is now a book shop)

I came here after playing tombraider 3 and was surprised to find out Aldwych station's real! I wonder if they do any tours...

@Operator_Fate

5 жыл бұрын

same surprised to see its real and abandoned too, just like TR3

@Eurolex43

4 жыл бұрын

They do! You just have to buy the tickets on the London Transport Museum Website (I think)

RIP Aldwych station 1994 🌹

Looks better than the NYC subway

Why did the station close? It seems such a complete station with lifts, toilets and firefighter training base.

@jacobbaer785

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ChannelReuploads9451

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@Isleofskye

4 жыл бұрын

The final factor being the cost of maintaining the lifts so it just was not viable for all those combined reasons..

@jonnotshared7590

3 жыл бұрын

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

This is the station featured in The Kinks song/video "do it again"

3 car Northern Line tube stock, with a Piccadilly map.

@sallicelerysecurityates1013

4 жыл бұрын

3 car Northern line tube stock? These only 4 coach train, not 3. Why did you say '3 cars of Northern line is'?

@UnderGr0undErnie

4 жыл бұрын

The northern Line has 6 cars to a train. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_rolling_stock They split the train in the middle thus 3 cars as in Aldwych. (car is short for carriage) Each 3 car unit consists of a DM car, the Trailer Car and then UNDM car, thats driving motor car then the trailer car which has no motors attached then the un-driving motor car.

@duolingoowl7043

4 жыл бұрын

UnderGr0undErnie You’re wrong though, because the 1972 Mk1 ex-Northern line stock left at Aldwych is a 4-car unit made up of 3229-4229 and 4329-3329.

@UnderGr0undErnie

4 жыл бұрын

@@duolingoowl7043 thank you for correcting me. The 1972 trains are formed of seven-car sets, and have a total of 268 passenger seats. After withdrawal from the Northern Line, five 4 car units (units 3201, 3208, 3211, 3212 and 3230)[4] were considered to be used on the Waterloo and City Line. The objective was to supply the Central Line with extra 1992 stock. This never happened and the trains were sent to Mayer Perry or the CF Booth of Rotherham to be scrapped.

@duolingoowl7043

4 жыл бұрын

UnderGr0undErnie no worries lmao

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?

@Garfie489

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@jonnotshared7590

3 жыл бұрын

I think all of these style of lifts have been replaced now (most of these lifts were of wooden construction) with modern ones.

What a scary place if youre be there alone in the dark

London underground is haunted to hell. I’ve been down there

I live a 5 minute walk from there in Fleet Street. Does anyone know if it's open for tours?

@Garfie489

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but very rare and hard to get

@jonnotshared7590

3 жыл бұрын

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

R.I.P Aldwych 1907-1994

Used it as a passenger in 1977!