In message <1j3kq3dhoih0r221s6js0o4gsp3plfhtbp.DeleteThis@4ax.com>, Paul Corfield
<aooy65.DeleteThis@dsl.pipex.com> writes
>>My google mojo has deserted me. Is it possible to do tours of some of
>>the disused stations on the underground? looking for stuff to do next
>>Friday.
>
>depends on what you mean by tour? if you mean find them at surface
>level then that's not too hard. I could probably tell you where most of
>them are. Drifting slightly from the subject I found a map on the
>intranet at work that shows the coding we use for each track section and
>station. Rather wonderfully it had codes for bits of certain lines that
>were either planned but never built (Bakerloo and Victoria lines) or
>bits that were built but never opened for LU service (parts of the
>Northern Line). A rather different tube map!
>
>If you actually want to see inside then that has to wait for a
>specialist tour - probably organised by the Museum but it's been ages
>and ages since one has been held. I suspect they may even have stopped
>doing them because of security issues.
Someone I know did Aldwych a few weeks ago. It was arranged through the
LT museum and Mike Ashworth from there did the tour.
I don't have any more details but I'll ask although contacting the LT
Museum might be a definite idea.
In answer to the OP, you would have to get on an organised tour and they
are few and far between (and hugely popular when they do happen) as far
as I can tell. Certain stations are out of bounds anyway (Down Street
comes to mind, although I don't know the specific reason) and I wouldn't
take anyone round York Road as I've walked round it (in a moment of
shut-down at work when I was held in the tunnel there) and it's like a
building site in there.
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