Inside The Abandoned Part Of London's Charing Cross Underground Station

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6 жыл бұрын

Business Insider was given a tour of the abandoned part of London's Charing Cross Underground station. The station - which provides the Northen and Bakerloo line - once served the Jubilee line, but the platform was closed in 1999 after an extension was built that completely bypassed the station.
The platforms are now used for various forms of training by different organisations - including the fire brigade and the police - and public tours from the museum. Hollywood movies are also filmed in the station, providing scenes for the Bourne Ultimatum and Skyfall.
We were also given access to the station's service tunnel and ventilation shaft.
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@pepsivstim 6 жыл бұрын

This abandoned station looks cleaner than most NYC subway stations

@PlanetoftheDeaf 6 жыл бұрын

The absence of passengers helps keep it clean :-)

@Sylveonkpopnyct 6 жыл бұрын

Timothy Chu there were plans to make abandoned stations into night clubs in the 1970s but was scrapped because of the danger from trains.

@ronaldburgos1 4 жыл бұрын

Planet of the Deaf kind of true

@SirReginaldBlomfield1234 3 жыл бұрын

Can believe that. If you shit, piss or vomit .. Putin will have you poisened with Novichok !! 😟

@SultanDougBob 2 жыл бұрын

Europe is on a whole nother level compared to the dirty US sorry but true

@meow8384 5 жыл бұрын

Abandoned in 1999? It looks nicer than the subways where I work! (NYC)

@damien4246 5 жыл бұрын

me ow I live in Toronto, can confirm this station is in top shape.

@meow8384 5 жыл бұрын

@@damien4246 lier! Toronto is in Canada. London is in England 😁

@damien4246 5 жыл бұрын

me ow Yeah no shit lol. And the stations in Toronto look ugly.

@klasing 5 жыл бұрын

That's because they keep it pristine for filming. Trust me the serviceable stations ain't that clean!

@thebasketballhistorian3291 5 жыл бұрын

Technically not abandoned since they use it regularly for non-commuters. But I guess "abandoned" sounds like a better video to click.

@hypercomms2001 5 жыл бұрын

When I lived in London for ten years, when I was using Charing Cross station, I always remember going past those doors, and looking through the glass at the empty escalators... now I know...

@oabuseer 6 жыл бұрын

I disagree that this is a waste, the lady clearly explained why it was better for it to remain closed.

@Kommaardoor64 6 жыл бұрын

I doubt you paid millions. Besides, she clearly explains that it makes money. So you, in the end, have to pay less of your millions of taxmoney

@oabuseer 6 жыл бұрын

Mill Maroon This is not a new station you turnip. Your current taxes have contributed nothing to it.

@arwelp 6 жыл бұрын

Mill Maroon It wasn’t built to turn trains round - those platforms were the southern end of the Jubilee Line for 20 years, from 1979 to 1999, they just became redundant when the line was extended through Westminster.

@uzaiyaro 6 жыл бұрын

When new infrastructure gets built, the old infrastructure gets bypassed. I can't tell you how many roads in Australia have the prefix "Old", because there are thousands of them. Most of them were bypassed by motorways or larger, more direct roads outside of town, sort of like a ring road, but without the ring. Where I live, there are about 20 roads called "Old Gympie Road" because back when horse and carts were a thing, that was the road to a gold rush town called Gympie. These were bypassed by other, larger roads, and highways. Now even Gympie itself is currently being bypassed by the highway that serves it, massive roadworks effort at the moment, but this is the way it goes, all over the country. Australia is one big Cars movie being played out, currently, except the towns are more successful than portrayed, because they still offer a direct route for many local residents/destinations, and they are a useful backup if an accident closes the main highway. Which, incidentally, is what this tube station is still used for, as explained in the video. If something happens on the main line, trains are diverted around it. Hope this helps explain why things are done the way they are.

@PopeLando 6 жыл бұрын

The thing is, the part which formed the link to the new terminal at Charing Cross was the only actual new built tunnel in the original Jubilee line, and it took 6 years to complete. (The rest of the line was taken over from the Bakerloo.) Then when the extension to Stratford was completed, it was shut. It does seem a waste for just 20 years usage, and no matter how much filming takes place it can't possibly provide the equivalent revenue.

@batman51 6 жыл бұрын

The reason it is there is because it was designed as an intermediate station on the Fleet Line which was planned to continue under the Strand, cross the Fleet River and continue to the City before taking over the ELL and terminating at Lewisham (with the option of extending along the Mid Kent line to Hayes). When Docklands came along, the line got renamed and diverted after Green Park towards Westminster and on to Canary Wharf and this bit became an unwanted stump.

@1575murray 5 жыл бұрын

And the ELL got transferred to London Overground and extended north and south.

@lilmaestro358 2 жыл бұрын

Tbh I feel like Charing Cross could be used as a terminus station for train coming back along the line towards Stanmore so people can have a connection to the national rail network station to help relieve congestion on the northern and bakerloo lines that run pass the station

@staples4335 2 жыл бұрын

Unwanted stump. Bit like my penis.

@acybkadd 3 жыл бұрын

I used to use those platforms regularly when I was in London. Funny how I can recognise so much of it considering it was a long time ago.

@juliezaremskiy3635 6 жыл бұрын

Not abandoned, just repurposed.

@hexeryy 4 жыл бұрын

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@justbarrington 5 жыл бұрын

I travel through cx every day and never realised they had another platform. Perks of being young

@travel-center-uk 6 жыл бұрын

Pretty adventures underground station tour, terrific camera work!!!

@AtheistOrphan 6 жыл бұрын

The service tunnel looks so spooky!

@nihilistcentraluk442 4 жыл бұрын

I think I could hear a werewolf somewhere

@poteyatocheapp6978 4 жыл бұрын

The tunnel was actually bored all the way to somewhere near Aldwych station which could've been the next stop on the line

@xavier._.157 3 жыл бұрын

Omg future nostalgia was most likely filmed here BRIT awards!!!

@Awesomanous 6 жыл бұрын

2:08, they forgot to leave in the anti-sliding 'stand on the right' signs.

@joshdunne 6 жыл бұрын

The posters are fake :) other than The Lion King. Take for example at 3:06, the poster labelled JD Bourne - To The Wire; google it and you’ll find nothing. My guess is they were put in for a Bourne film :)

@hreader 5 жыл бұрын

One of my more enduring fantasies is that traversing a wormhole in space would be rather like walking through Tube station tunnels - maybe where you change from the wormhole on to Sirius onto the line that takes you to Alpha Centauri! That sort of thing!

@basictransportenthusiast4386 6 жыл бұрын

Love all of those old maps

@PS-ru2ov 5 жыл бұрын

I used to change here from northern line to jubilee line for school in the 90s

@Catsanddogshavefun 2 жыл бұрын

very interesting ., thank you xoox

@grimsville2501 3 жыл бұрын

It looks so unnerving because of how clean and normal it looks but there's no one

@BlackEmeraldGroup 5 жыл бұрын

This is partly correct The Jubilee section of Charing Cross is closed off but night tube services commenced on the Northern Line in November 2016 but Charing Cross was not called at until the 29 June 2017.

@gymnasiast90 6 жыл бұрын

With the Jubilee line platforms closed, Charing Cross really doesn't feel like one station any more. Renaming the Bakerloo part back to Trafalgar Square would be a lot clearer for people from outside the area - currently you just have to know that taking the Bakerloo line to Charing Cross gets you far closer to Trafalgar Square than taking the Northern line to Charing Cross. That's not what people expect if it's one station.

@user-vf9qc6io9i 5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the station could be renamed Charing Cross Trafalgar Square, like what is already done with Kings Cross St Pancras

@Codestud 6 жыл бұрын

Apparently the tunnels in this area carry on for a distance and come close to the (also abandoned) Aldwych station.

@iman2341 6 жыл бұрын

Wasn't there talk of using this for an extension of the DLR?

@ChubbyChecker182 6 жыл бұрын

Gary Barlow filmed his first ever solo video there. Knowledge Is Power.

@rekcomputing 4 жыл бұрын

They also used it for that scene in 28 weeks later :)

@philjohnson2611 3 жыл бұрын

Such a shame to see soooo many tube station abandoned or closed. Although the whole system has really gone down hill since the late 90's.

@little_foxy9118 5 жыл бұрын

Nice filming place

@heavymetalboy427 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if Charing Cross for the jubilee line was still open

@bb3ca201 5 жыл бұрын

Jesus, that station looks bigger than the ones in Montreal and cleaner than the ones in Paris

@Lewis.George 6 жыл бұрын

There has been talk of using the Jubilee Line platforms for a potential DLR extension to Charing Cross, though the likelihood of this is questionable given that it already terminates at Bank and Tower Gateway, neither of which are far.

@ianmoseley9910 4 жыл бұрын

Lewis George DLR should have run to Fenchurch Street rather than have Tower Gateway.

@paintedpilgrim 6 жыл бұрын

What the lady is saying isn't entirely true. There was a study made in 2006 by the Docklands Light Railway (as part of TfL) for an extension of the Bank branch to Charing Cross and Victoria Station effectively following the line of the old proposed Fleet line with 2 intermediate stations at City Thameslink and Aldwych before reaching Charing Cross, but this idea would mean increasing the diameter of the existing tunnels at the station as DLR trains are bigger than tube trains.

@travia6688 5 жыл бұрын

paintedpilgrim maybe they should make "Victoria & city line" lol

@paintedpilgrim 3 жыл бұрын

@@MyRackley there was a plan to link the DLR into Fenchurch Street Station initially. Now there is a vague plan to extend it into a rebuilt Tower Hill Station that would increase capacity at both Bank and Tower Hill and provide an in station transfer. But they dont feelings likely anytime before 2050.

@SiVlog1989 5 жыл бұрын

Wonder if in hindsight, considering the extension that was originally planned for the Jubilee line (beyond Charing Cross via Aldwych and Fenchurch Street to Woolwich and Thamesmead) never happened and the extension that did happen left the existing route at Green Park, running via Westminster and Waterloo to Stratford, thus increasing the traffic through Docklands, it made Charing Cross seem to be something of a white elephant

@abigailbarfoot3846 2 жыл бұрын

Closed because of jubilee extension to Westminster which bypassed Charing Cross. It not operational use but is used for commercial uses and training which I already knew before this.

@jairon_2518 6 жыл бұрын

Battlefield 3 - Operation Metro

@astrolys3482 5 жыл бұрын

Actually, Operation Metro takes place in the Parisian metro

@joebates640 5 жыл бұрын

Astrolys r/woooosh

@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp 4 жыл бұрын

Cool!

@jakecopeland8068 Жыл бұрын

They should bring it back as a shuttle service from Stanmore

@joshuahalla.k.a.controlla6333 2 жыл бұрын

Nice. ☺

@djrmonix 3 жыл бұрын

Never understood why they don't call it Trafalgar Square for tourists to find it. When I 1st explored London I got off at Leicester Square and dandered down to Trafalgar. The the 2nd time I was there I got off by accident at Charing Cross and whatever exit I came out it brought my right out in view of Trafalgar square!

@stephenallmond67 8 ай бұрын

It's because of the mainline terminus......

@treavongayle8403 5 жыл бұрын

There are plans to use this station for an extension of the DLR

@julianaylor4351 4 жыл бұрын

Once when there were a incident on the Jubilee line I was on a train that had to be turned around here in the early two thousands.

@benjamincooney5617 3 жыл бұрын

Same I was waiting at green park and saw one being turned around.

@sanakiyamam1987 5 жыл бұрын

looks like the place the tethered lived from us movie :0)

@WifeMamaArtist 5 жыл бұрын

Charing Cross station and Westminster station are practically spitting distance anyway!

@AtheistOrphan 5 жыл бұрын

WMA - Embankment is even closer!

@hakc97again 2 жыл бұрын

Waterloo is closer than Westminster I think

@BroadCastPlanet Жыл бұрын

You know what… I think there should be foot tunnel from charing cross to west minister in order to connect to the jubilee line!

@brendanwalker8903 6 жыл бұрын

It was hardly a tour and the annoying music almost put me off altogether.

@Clavinovaman 6 жыл бұрын

I have to say that the musak is the only distraction on this excellent channel. Fake pizzicato is not required - sometimes less is more.

@stevedoubleu99B 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting, but the music was interestingly annoying.

@chrisomeara5795 5 жыл бұрын

m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mN2GZ6t6tNW8aY0.html So annoying they used it twice!

@scopex2749 5 жыл бұрын

How can you get on a tour?

@kaden50374 5 жыл бұрын

Well at least we know where the sequel for Us will take place

@VinceHere98 4 жыл бұрын

I suppose they could use this station for when they want to build a new London Underground line at some point in the future.

@poteyatocheapp6978 4 жыл бұрын

That was planned sometime ago. The service tunnel was dug all the way to somewhere near Aldwych station which couldve been the next stop on the then-planned Jubilee Line. But plans were abandoned and now the Jubilee Line continues at Westminster

@Perrygallo 6 жыл бұрын

1:35 Sign still saying "BRITISH RAIL"...ah those were the days

@agent_605 5 жыл бұрын

John Davis It still is...

@agent_605 5 жыл бұрын

John Davis It is. Last time I checked my Passport still says “British” under nationality

@agent_605 5 жыл бұрын

John Davis The county is still known as “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. What makes it Not British?

@vakeeskuganesan3806 5 жыл бұрын

John Davis why don’t you elaborate 🤔

@agent_605 5 жыл бұрын

John Davis No seriously I have no idea what you mean. I still have a British Passport, and the country is still called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the vast majority of people living here are British...

@sophiaandrews5849 5 жыл бұрын

Wow that’s closed I wish mine looked half as clean the ny subway someone should tell them

@yidarmy8487 6 жыл бұрын

So it’s just in front of the stations which are still open today wonder why the jubilee line stopped going through there

@Peqches 6 жыл бұрын

Because it can't....this is a terminus station. It doesn't go it any further.... You can't exactly go through it... Sorry if this sounded rude or anything.

@AtheistOrphan 5 жыл бұрын

Yid Army - Watch the video, it’s all explained.

@TheIracha11 6 жыл бұрын

Is this where they filmed London has Fallen too?

@hairyairey 6 жыл бұрын

Long term on the underground I can see that there will be entrance only platforms and exit only platforms. Shame we never consider the "Spanish Solution" for the Underground.

@jageiosjgaeiojg 8 ай бұрын

J d bourne to the wire, is that a fake advert? I am struggling to Google it at all!

@aristassofficial 4 жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention that a horror movie called "creep" was filmed there 😍

@Networker4659 4 жыл бұрын

If it were for creep,someone got hit by a train while recording

@aristassofficial 4 жыл бұрын

@@Networker4659 wtf?

@SMB8037C 4 жыл бұрын

why cant they use charing cross as a jubilee branch line from green park

@ianmoseley9910 4 жыл бұрын

pgn legend Because the rest of the line is operating at capacity, no trains to spare

@SMB8037C 4 жыл бұрын

@@ianmoseley9910 oh

@itsmeBRIK 2 жыл бұрын

This London Underground Station Is Now Only Used For Bakerloo and Northern Lines

@OffTheRailsUK Жыл бұрын

I wonder if the JLE ever goes out of service for unknown reasons could terminate services here

@zachmoore290 5 жыл бұрын

I filmed an advert in there lol

@VampMiku502 4 жыл бұрын

This station looks like abandon yesterday...

@stefaniejules6494 2 жыл бұрын

Because It’s not exactly abounded it’s still being used for other things and cleaned it’s just not open for the public to use.

@cpcnw 3 жыл бұрын

Music by?

@1monthgamer308 5 жыл бұрын

They could make a branch that contains this part of the station.........

@x66Hawk66x Жыл бұрын

I would not describe it as Abandoned, but rather repurposed. Even Aldwych still sees regular use by film companies.

@shazanali692 5 жыл бұрын

The music is - white noise ace combat

@LouisOnAir 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite appearance of Charing Cross in a film has to be the masterpiece Morbius (2022). When Jared Leto and Matt Smith started morbing in what is supposed to be the New York Subway and not the London Underground, I completely morbed my pants

@davidjames579 9 ай бұрын

That's Morbtastic

@Great_WesternTVFan 2 жыл бұрын

They still use it but as a siding for trains terminating at Green Park

@TheTraffic247 4 жыл бұрын

Huh didn't think london could afford abandoned "spaces" in that city, let alone an entire train station. Well, it's creepy af, but atleast it's still cleaner than the shit hole I contend with in nyc.

@thegamingnemesis5781 2 жыл бұрын

Wait I think this part of the station was used in the movie London has Fallen

@louisefleming527 4 жыл бұрын

Isn’t this the part of the station where they filmed the film creep?

@peterd788 4 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@goatgamer2389 4 жыл бұрын

Why dont the open it as a branch

@lonelypennet 10 ай бұрын

A big time capsule!

@Ioriyagami00 5 жыл бұрын

Wish Jubilee still served this station

@bullyinspace 3 жыл бұрын

I’d love more than anything to spend a whole weekend at night walking the tunnels man. That place is haunted to hell lol

@mudslide-md2uz 5 жыл бұрын

They were testing a prototype air-conditioning unit on the platform

@reminess 2 жыл бұрын

Parts of Morbius were filmed here.

@Jake5537t 4 жыл бұрын

1:09 old adverts for things like the original lion king

@Zach-uc1qv 6 жыл бұрын

If its still used then its not abandoned, get your facts right

@thegreygrappler6280 6 жыл бұрын

Zach abandoned to commuters, which is the only reason a operational station is open in the first place.

@Zach-uc1qv 6 жыл бұрын

Then its non-operational but not abandoned. Abandoned: having been deserted or left; which this station clearly has not been. I can understand your point however abandoned is still the wrong wording.

@huubhuijbens8816 6 жыл бұрын

You are right! It 'said' for the click. You could have said un-used, that's sensational enough for clickbait and correctly.

@rayg4988 5 жыл бұрын

End of the world

@chrismitchell4808 5 жыл бұрын

Bloody waste of a tube station, passed on this line back in 2006

@davehoward22 4 жыл бұрын

2:07 you used to be able to do this

@Toffeeabi81 3 жыл бұрын

Deused not abandoned as it by-passed by the jle i don't live in London and even i now that. Like she said its still used but its not day to day operational service as its not needed. So its better to use to generate funds for the underground.

@ACslife23 6 жыл бұрын

they filmed the horror movie creep there starring Sean Harris

@WASIURPA 6 жыл бұрын

Look at londonist's secrer of the jubilee line u will see where they came in from

@ag55225 6 ай бұрын

couldn’t they just use charing cross as another branch like they have mill hill east or kennington on northern line?

@brynerjimenez6162 5 жыл бұрын

No it's semi abandoned to me because it's still used for filming, emergency access.

@mikeomolt4485 2 жыл бұрын

Seal it off, perhaps for use as a flood relief tunnel. Let them film and do training elsewhere after midnight.

@yashkrgupta2122012 4 жыл бұрын

Use red light to avoid danger

@TheBruce00J 5 жыл бұрын

Surprised it’s never been used for gigs 🤔

@krashd 5 жыл бұрын

There was a request to turn it into a nightclub but it failed on countless grounds, the biggest being that the track is still in use and that high-speed trains and drunk people don't mix.

@danielxsure 5 жыл бұрын

Chambers street looks worse and it's still in use

@itsbelarusasagamer2540 5 жыл бұрын

The Jubillee huh?

@sunnychan1987 Жыл бұрын

KZfaq brings me here due to the recent news of a wrong train operation 😂

@ronaldburgos1 4 жыл бұрын

This station is better than the aldwych station

@peterd788 4 жыл бұрын

Charing Cross is used for contemporary films and Aldwych is used for period films.

@tornadoe13 4 жыл бұрын

If anyone knows how to explore these tunnels, you know where I am

@hanstheexplorer Жыл бұрын

The abandoned part of Charing +.

@iknowcomedy 5 жыл бұрын

That is the Jubilee Line part used for turning trains around and sometimes for movies

@AtheistOrphan 5 жыл бұрын

Master William// Jonathan Comedy - Yes, just like it says in the video.

@eamesaerospace2805 6 жыл бұрын

Why not put cross rail through the platform

@agent_605 6 жыл бұрын

Because the tunnels aren't wide enough for Crossrail, Crossrail is already mostly built, and CrossRail is designed mainly to relieve the Central Line which doesn't serve Charing Cross, and has already been built

@huubhuijbens8816 6 жыл бұрын

If there is enough un-used Underground station with finished fine tunnels, they wil be used for walking/cycline roads! It wil be looking like the tunnel beneath the river in Antwerp, it wil be hard to try to make it look safe and comfortable, but after some time of finishing stations for Crossrail, DLR and renovating stations they wil work on this project in the near future.

@scythal 5 жыл бұрын

Huub Huijbens I heard some plans of a "Cycle Underground", basically an underground network of bike tunnels.

@johnmarkbernardo7611 5 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of call of duty mw3

@johnholmes912 2 жыл бұрын

looks like the strand to me

@FnafFanProductions 5 жыл бұрын

Couldnt they just reopen it as a branch to the jubilee line

@FnafFanProductions 5 жыл бұрын

How would it cause problems

@FnafFanProductions 5 жыл бұрын

Oh...

@agent_605 5 жыл бұрын

Meme Boy 2006 Not enough demand and not enough room on the main line north of Green Park without removing trains from the Stratford branch, which is busier than the rest