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The following stations were once planned by the London Underground or one of the early independent underground railway companies and were granted parliamentary approval. Subsequent changes of plans or shortages of funds led to these stations being cancelled before they opened, and, in most cases, before any construction work was carried out.
Connor, J.E. (2005) London's Disused Stations, Volume Five, The London & South Western Railway, including the Tooting Merton & Wimbledon Railway and West London Extension Railways. Connor & Butler, Colchester, ISBN 978-0-947699-38-3; Connor, J.E. (2006) London's Disused Stations, Volume Six, The London Brighton & South Coast Railway.
The bombing of London and especially the Blitz led to the use of many tube stations as air-raid shelters, with 175,000 people arriving every night in August 1940. [90] Six stations were breached by a direct hit, [91] and in March 1943, 173 people died in a crowd crush accident at the unfinished Bethnal Green station. [92]
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Pylon, London Underground roundel and covered seat was designed by Charles Holden is included in the Grade II* listing for Oakwood Underground station The London Underground is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex. Seventy-one of the 272 London Underground stations use buildings that are on the Statutory List of Buildings ...
The list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the year of closure if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue to be included in this list and some have been linked. Stations listed are those being available to the public thus excluding some private unadvertised stations, military use, railway staff only use or for other ...
The London Borough of Hackney, to the north, has two stations on its border. Some stations at the north-eastern end of the Central line are in the Epping Forest district of Essex and some stations at the north-western end of the Metropolitan line are in the Three Rivers and Watford districts of Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire .
Lewisham was served by the East London line (with stations at New Cross and New Cross Gate) until 2010 when the line and the stations were transferred to the London Overground network. [ 105 ] A geographic London Underground map showing the extent of the current network ( Amersham and Chesham stations, top left, are beyond the extent of the map.)