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Aldwych Station

Although closed finally in 1994, from time to time London Transport Museum will open up the abandoned tube station at Aldwych. It’s an interesting place with a history stretching back a century or so, and despite not being a particularly successful tube station (it was never very popular, even when it first opened) it did prove to be useful both as a bomb shelter and for storing art works during the Second World War.

It’s now used either as a film set, for training purposes, or for testing out new station designs and tiles. It’s worth a visit, but tickets for this weekend and next are all sold out, so you’ll have to wait until they open it up again.

You can see some more of the photos I took on my Flickr stream.