Inside Down Street Disused Tube Station [IanVisits]
Date: 24/04/2020
Down Street station is one of the great disused stations of tube lore, opened, hardly used, closed, turned into a bunker for Churchill while the Cabinet War Rooms were being prepared, used during the war by the Railway Executive Committee as offices, and barely changed to this day.
TfL is now looking for outsiders to come up with some way of doing something interesting with the disused station. Not all of it, but about half is being released for development of some sort.
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Photos from inside Down Street disused tube station
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Just over 80 years ago, a tube station closed to the public due there being insufficient public interested in using it. Now it could open again, as a tourist attraction.
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The former Piccadilly Line tube station in Down Street, Mayfair, seen here on 21 July 2005, some 73 years after closure. Opened in 1907 the station suffered due to the proximity of Hyde Park Corner and Green Park stations and closed in 1932. Down Street's claim to fame was in hosting several meetings of Churchill's war cabinet during WW2.
Location: Down Street
Company: Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway
21/07/2005 John Furnevel
Location: Down Street
Company: Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway
21/07/2005 John Furnevel
