Underneath London there are about forty four abandoned tube stations - that’s a lot of real estate. Some of them found a use again during world war two, used for housing civilians and the cabinet during air raids by German pilots.

Yet some of them closed and haven’t been touched since, leaving white tiled time capsules deep under London.

These three sites cover the various disused underground stations:

http://underground-history.co.uk/deeplevel.php
http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/, the parent site is http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites.shtml

The above poster is from the war and it is a well known classic, though I’m betting few few of these original posters exist. The poster below isn’t war based but it’s very evocative of its time:

With so many stations and so much track abandoned how can it all be secured? No wonder Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere idea caught fire. No-one really knows what happening under London, the homeless could easily have set up in some of these places. I won’t go into the security as far as terrorism goes as I think you’re more likely to be struck by a meteorite than see a bomb planted in an abandoned subway tunnel.

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