Disused Tube Stations in London

A former fellow officer in Cambridge University Computer Society has a set of pages about the London Underground: he's also has had a spot of bother with the Observer "newspaper".

London's Disused Underground Stations is an excellent reference book.

Some notable stations

Post Office (Central Line)

Actually a myth as to closure - renamed St Pauls.

(By the way, the Post Office has its own underground railway for moving mail around London.)

(British) Museum (Central Line)

(Corner of Bloomsbury Court & High Holborn)

Closed in favour of extra platforms at Holborn 1933.

Down Street (Piccadilly Line)

Replaced by the nearby Green Park in 1932.

In 1940 was used as the underground Cabinet rooms while new ones were built (the ones now open to the public).

Some films featuring them

• Post Office & Museum featured as closed stations in the Department S episode Last Train to Redbridge: the baddies had tapped the London-Washington hotline at P.O.
  [An aside: most TV/film dramas show the hotline as a telephone whereas it was actually a private telex system - teletype terminal to teletype terminal. The 1968 cabinet papers released at the end of 1998 have a fascinating section on this - www.pro.gov.uk.]

• Neverwhere, the 1996 BBC TV series by Neil Gaiman, also featured Museum, as did the 1973 film Deathline (starring Donald Pleasence as a seedy police Inspector; produced by the Alan Ladd Company). This mentions the change as occurring when the small private companies were nationalised to form London Transport, which was in the 1920s I think.