Inside Aldwych, London's abandoned Underground station
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2018
- Business Insider was given a tour of London's abandoned Aldwych Underground station.
The station has quite the history, opening in 1907 and serving as a bomb shelter during the Blitz in the 1940s. It was also used as a hiding place for some of the British Museum's treasures including the Elgin Marbles.
The station used to provide services to the Picadilly line, having only one stop to Holborn, which is around a 10-minute walk away. The station was eventually closed in 1994, due to heavy maintenance costs.
The station is now used for various forms of training by different organisations - including the fire brigade and the police - and public tours from the museum.
Hollywood movies are also filmed in the station, previously providing scenes for "V for Vendetta" and "Atonement."
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It is nice to finally get some insight about this abandoned station since I am passing by it day by day.
What u should know is it is still used for military contract
Those toilets are cleaner than the ones on the main line trains..
Yeah ikr
Yeah and they haven’t been cleaned since the 90s
Ayo fax
This video reminded me of the Tomb Raider game series, that premiered in the 90's. Tomb Raider 3 had several levels in London, including Aldwych station.
Blimey, I just watched two abandoned tube station videos back to back and I used both of them in real life. Suddenly, I feel old.
Fun fact. My grandfather helped transport some of the Elgin Marbles stored down that tube station to the USA in WWII on a battleship called HMS Rodney for safe keeping. They diverted to sink the Bismarck on the way. Well done Grandad! 👍
THE PRODIGY band shot FIRESTATER Song here :) Awesome to see this.
I had a tour of Aldwych years ago, very interesting and unusual experience.
i remembered when i was in London i told my friends of hey there is the Underground station because we where desperatly searching for one so we could go to our hotel i pointed at Aldwych and a bypasser said that Aldwych has been closed for decades
That is the tunnel and station that was used in the movie "V for Vendetta" with Hugo weaving starring as a guy fawkes character
One of my favorite levels in Tomb Raider 3!
That ticket hall is lovely!
The lifts were the icing on the cake.
The 1972 mk1 looks well as it did when it was on thr Northern line.
Interesting! I’m glad that this was shared.
Cool indeed! The Department S episode "Last Train to Redbridge" was shot here in the 1960's
I used to work at Middle Temple and used Aldwych every weekday to save me crossing the Strand from Chancery Lane Tube Station.
There was usually 4 or 5 in the lift (if it was working!) and we nodded to each other rather than spoke.
On the last day BBC Radio (I think) interviewed the 30 odd passengers who were moaning that it was closing…I’d never seen any of them before and to be honest, it wasn’t a great loss as it only went one stop.
amazingly clean for being abandoned
In NYC this would have been destroyed
and in NSW Australia- for the developers to come in and build something "better, bigger" and newer.
Used it years ago getting off at Hounslow East on the Piccadilly line back in the day
Interesting place!
I enjoyed the video AND the music - what is the music you used?
Lovely atmospheric shots back of house, thank you.
The pin which was placed on the map at 0:44 is a little too far north and should be on the corner of Strand and Surrey Street.
The 1992 movie Patriot Games has a scene at this station with the winding stairway
I once went this station on a London Open Day, it was an amazing place but there were some nasty smells coming from the toilets.
The station was.actually used for several Sundays in the late 1960s for the Dr Who story Web Of Fear.
I'm sorry, but your Doctor Who story about this station being used for Web Of Fear filming simply isn't true. The Doctor Who production team did approach London Transport for filming but were declined. All the scenes of stations and tunnels were shot in studio.
So interesting. Wish we had a metro in Ireland :(
YouDontKnowMe Dublin has a tram.
I moved from Ireland to aldwych.
I live in Tyne & Wear one of the smallest counties in England and we have a Metro system.
theres the luas and the in progress metrolink
We had one in my city of Rochester, NY since the 1920s and they screwed it up in the 50s. Ruined it and now. It hasn't existed since the 50s. Wish we still had it because it would be so amazing right now here. We have all suburban areas around our city with no decent transit here at all.
I wouldn't sleep there alone at night :D
I used to use station this sometimes to go to university
They filmed the Q-Branch scene in Die another Day here
Not quite, that was a studio mock up of a fictional Vauxhall Cross station, with a tiling pattern based on Aldwych
The British Trainspotter Oh. I thought it was filmed on the very station.
@@CancerGaming56 yeah I used to think that until I researched it. Most films with tube stations are at Aldwych though. Even on Battle Of Britain from 1969 it uses Aldwych, when it was still open. Presumably because of low passengers it was easier to say 'this is gonna be closed today for filming'
That place could become an awesome night club venue!
Check out Cahoots in SoHo, not really a night club but a 1940's inspired cocktail bar.
And check out Prodigy's Firre Starter video as mentioned in the comments just below.
I went to aldwych when it was abandoned and it was kinda creepy
I have walked the second line down there almost to the dead end tunnel at Holborn. Even with a borrowed 'dragon' it was so dark because there was nothing to reflect off. It is only when you get near the crossover for Holborn that you see some distant lights. All very dark very weird and very interesting.
Now here's a challenge for you, find out what the original dead end station at Holborn is actually being used for now!!
sounds interesting! What is the original dead end station called?
I just figured out the prodigy filmed the music video for firestarter in the exact same tube station
I passed it today, looks like the entrance has actually been bricked up.
It currently has big red steel doors and a close-up map of London on it
28-year-old abandoned toilet in Aldwych: still works.
6-month-old flushing chain mechanism from my toilet: breaks off all the goddamn time.
I am sure that the stn was used as a set during the filming ofthdystopian f
Ick v for vengencestaring natalie portman?😊
Hmm... Are there stations with more than one stop? :P
isn't that train used in fast and furious 6 when letti escaped the tube station onto the train
How do you get inside the old london underground station and can you still go into that abandoned station in 2020
Sir Harry you can book a Hidden London tour of Aldwych. It’s a brilliant tour and full of interesting facts about the station and it’s history.
@@victoriatapp3124 how to I book it and go into the website
Sir Harry I booked it on the Hidden London section of the London Transport Museum website. I don’t think you can book one at the minute though due to Corona virus but it’s worth a look just in case.
Suprised nobody has mentioned that this station was the set of the `Prodigy - Firestarter' music video. czcams.com/video/wmin5WkOuPw/video.html
What about Mill Hill East
What about it?
that was going to connect to edgware
I heard there's a masonic temple underneath it
Can anyone tell me when Hanger Lane tube station closed.
The prodegy filmed fire starter in the tunnel there
So which is it then 'Aldwych' or 'Strand'?
It opened as Strand in 1907, but was renamed Aldwych in 1915, when the station that is today the Northern Line’s Charing Cross station was renamed Strand instead. Here’s a short video explaining it: czcams.com/video/Uel2GxiOgjM/video.html
Abandoned stations in NYC are absolute wrecks.
Wasn't this subway stop was used in the movie "the creep"
Wow I’m shocked there’s a tube still there can somebody tell me why
For filming and training of staff and police.
Did you watch the video?
As seen in Superman IV!
A no smoking roubdel
It was not abandoned, it was closed...there is a difference.
Bruh it works
No, there was nothing wrong with them 1907 lifts...
You have to wonder why, if it never actually served its original purpose, and only ever had one other stop, it remained open till 1994
Well to be fair, you could say the same about the Mill Hill East (Northern) and Chesham (Metropolitan) branches too. But you’d have to go really far to get lines closed, and seeing that the branch was in the middle of Central London (with 2 universities and Somerset House amongst other locations nearby) I’m sure that there would be a number of people using it who would have objected to its closure (despite them not being able to cover operating and maintenance costs).
Ah well, Temple and Holborn stations aren’t too far, and failing that, you can get a bus from the latter or Waterloo...
fetchstix™ Mill Hill East was meant to be part of the northern heights plan
Henry Munslow: Yeah, that’s why I mentioned it as an example: it didn’t fulfil its actual purpose of being part of the Northern Heights plan and is almost exactly as described yet still runs to this day(!) I believe similar holds for Chesham and it was supposed to go further out...
@fetchstix™ Mill Hill East used to be on the line to Edgware (not the same Edgware station that is open today but was adjacent to it). The only intermediate station was *Mill Hill (The Hale),* which was quite close to the still active Mill Hill Broadway station.
The reason why the branch ends at Mill Hill East is because it is/was near the army barracks, so the line was electrified up to Mill Hill East, as it was convenient for the outbreak of World War II. The rest of the branch was closed in 1941 (I think) and sadly never reopened. If you were to go to Mill Hill East station now, you can see the embankment where the trains to and from Edgware used to run. In fact, the bridge the station is on is wide enough for two tracks, but only one was ever built.
Does the train still working?
This station might have been useful for kings and LSE students
Does Geoff Marshall know you made this?
It's pronounced Hoban, isn't it?
anonUK no its pronounced holbourn, I live in London so I know how to pronounce it correctly, plus I've been there many times
Ho-burn
It’s hol-burn. The L is there for a reason and should be pronounced. It’s not silent.
KasabianFan44 It is silent ask any Londoner.
Kolmar Goldstein
Incorrect. In fact most Londoners do correctly include the L in their pronunciation. It’s probably some historical mistake that just caught on, and the only people who pronounce it hoe-burn now are those who try to be better than others by correcting their errors, even when they’re actually right.
Where is this place 'Holl-born"? Any self-respecting Londoner knows it's "Hoh-bun'.
Aldwych station is not the Strand station. They are two separate stations and places
This station was originally called Strand, and later renamed Aldwych.
They are one and the same station.
A different station, on a different railway, was ALSO called Strand, but was renamed Charing Cross.
It does NOT appear in this video.
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Hi I'm Michelle ☺
I had to watch this video just to learn how to pronounce this word..
Надежда Власова Oll dwitch. Yeah our language can be very difficult.
@@smogmonster1876 Ssst...rand surely!
@@JP_TaVeryMuch Yes when it first opened by it was later changed to Aldwych (or Oll dwitch.
How any foreigner learns English is beyond me. It’s the most confusing language riddled with silent letters and exceptions to rules.
Respect to anyone who speaks English as a second language.
tomb raider 3 brought me here :)
Tomb raider III brought me here
Adds on a vid less than 5 minutes long well done Google you really do screw it into the ground..
Strand station we were looking at. STRAND Station it is still there on the Northern line. Handy for Covent Garden and the theatres
nearby. The music over the spoken word in your video is worse than that provided by the BBC
So there was 2 stations called "Strand" though both have since been renamed. The one in the video was renamed to Aldwych, whilst the other merged with "Trafalgar Square" to become "Charing Cross" once the Jubilee line was opened in the 1970s
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Anyone else here because of Tomb Raider 3?
I am!
It's not exactly 'abandoned', is it?
Partially. Officially, it is abandoned, unofficially, its not
Anyone else play the tomb raider 3 level here😂
please don't pronounce the L in Ho'b'n
Did anyone else come here because they're playing Tomb Raider 3 lol.
the music was too loud on his video I could barely hear what they where saying
A really interesting video that is spoilt by that bloody music.
Fcol DROP THE VIOLIN Please.
I thought I was the only one, the music was way too loud
where's lara croft ??? 😚
I bet if you look hard enough, you could find a Masonic temple nestled beside the track, a giant drill for no reason, three derelict deposit rooms, a switch can can trigger an earthquake, and a group of faceless human-mutant with their rotten pet dogs.
Sparky Barth Love all these Tomb Raider comments!
Vote like to reopen
comment to stay as it is by saying Stay
Stop pronouncing Holborn like that, it hurts my ears
it's the way us Londoners pronounce it
The FULL ENERGY CHANNEL No it isn’t. I’m a tenth generation londoner and I know how it’s pronounced. It’s Ho-bern
Who wants to come here with me
Let the homeless sleep in there!
Hide treasures of the British Museum huh?since when stolen historical artefacts become treasures of another country's museum?
You want them back? Come get them.
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