Underground London: abandoned tube stations and tunnels – in pictures
‘Place hacker’ Bradley Garrett has spent years exploring the capital’s hidden depths. He escaped jail recently after he was conditionally discharged over conspiring to commit criminal damage during sorties into disused underground tunnels and abandoned stations such as Aldwych. His latest book, Subterranean London, is published by Prestel
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Aldwych station – on a short Piccadilly line branch from Holborn – was closed in 1994
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An urban explorer on the Piccadilly line
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Aldwych station was originally called Strand station when it opened in 1907
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Inside a Northern Line train on a section of abandoned track
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In the 2008 film The Escapist, filmmakers used the real abandoned Holborn Tramway station, under Kingsway, as the location of the fictional tube station, Union Street
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York Road disused Tube station near Kings Cross
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Urban explorers often free-climb to access new areas
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Down Street station
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A train running through a section of track
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A disused Piccadilly Line station
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A train at Aldwych station
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