Last week Darce and I went deeper underground with @ltmuseum’s #HiddenLondon tour to explore the disused tunnels beneath London’s not-quite-yet-glitzy-but-working-on-it-let’s-see-what-HS2-brings-if-it-ever-gets-finished #EustonStation.
Euston station is actually formed of three stations (soon to be four when HS2 swallows up Euston Square on the #MetropolitanLine).
The original three were:
🚉 The mainline station from the London & Birmingham Railway (LBR)
🚇 The closed CCE&HR Euston (now one branch of the #NorthernLine)
🚇 The closed C&SLR Euston (the other Northern Line branch)
When these were first joined together, new tunnels had to link them — but after the 1962 rebuild (“one of the greatest acts of post-war architectural vandalism in Britain”), many tunnels were blocked off, turning them into eerie time capsules filled with preserved vintage poster fragments from the 1960s.
So with @tfl lanyards on, we explored the labyrinth of dark, dusty passageways once used by commuters — and saw how some tunnels now double as air vents for the Underground.
When the #VictoriaLine was built, a huge new ventilation tunnel was added — and we got to walk along it, peering down at the platforms below. So cool.
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