When did Aldwych tube station shut?

1994
The station was closed during WWII for use as an air-raid shelter and the disused platform and running tunnel provided storage for artefacts from the British Museum. The station closed in 1994 due to the cost of renewing lift machinery, and since then has been used for filming and events.

What has been filmed at Aldwych station?

Aldwych was among the underground stations used as air raid shelters during the Blitz, so is a good choice for wartime dramas like Atonement. It has also been used in V For Vendetta, Superman 4 and 28 Weeks Later.

Can you visit Aldwych underground station?

Aldwych Station is probably the most well known disused tube station on the London Underground network. There are occasional opportunities to visit the station for tours organized by the London Transport Museum.

What happened Strand station?

On 30th November 1907 the Strand Underground station opened. 87 years later it closed. It then suffered an identity crisis when it was renamed Aldwych in 1915, with the station we now know as Charing Cross taking the name Strand (only to revert to ‘Charing Cross’ in 1979). …

What line was Aldwych tube station on?

Piccadilly Line
Detail of the 1963 London Underground map, showing Aldwych tube station as a branch of the Piccadilly Line. The Aldwych underground station on the junction between the Strand and Surrey Street has been closed for nearly thirty years.

What Tube line is Aldwych?

How many closed tube stations are there?

Find out more about London’s disused Underground stations. There are 272 functioning stations across our network, but at least 40 Overground and Underground stations still in existence are no longer used for travel.

When did York Road close?

19 September 1932
Although the strike only lasted for nine days, the station remained closed. However the subject of its closure was eventually raised in the House of Commons, and it reopened in October 1926, but the reprieve was short-lived, lasting until 19 September 1932 when it was permanently closed.

Is the Strand underground station open?

It was opened in 1907 with the name Strand, after the street on which it is located, and was the terminus of the short Piccadilly line branch from Holborn that was a relic of the merger of two railway schemes….Aldwych tube station.

Aldwych
2019	No data
Key dates
1907	Opened
1940	Closed