The northern entrance in the late 1970s.
This view is looking south along Southampton Row.
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Opposite view.
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The northern entrance. For a commercial postcard photo
of this entrance on Southampton Row before rebuilding, move your
cursor over the image.
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Inside the tunnel above looking south. This was originally
built for single deck trams but was rebuilt for double deckers.
The two original separate tunnels were combined to form this
very large one.
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Approaching Holborn station.
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Holborn station on the right viewed from the southbound
track.
The tunnel is used by Camden Council for storage (hence
the street signs on the right).
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War time posters.
Original posters apparently but only attached to the
wall recently by a film crew.
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The exit at the northern end of Holborn station below
ground...
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...and above ground in Kingsway.
This view is looking south.
(May 2004)
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The southbound track at Holborn station.
In the centre is the island platform and the exit
shown above.
The northbound track is on the left but obscured in
this photo.
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As above.
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The northbound platform. In the centre of the photo,
some sort of imprint from a LT roundel is visible.
For a commercial postcard photo of this station, move your cursor
over the image.
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The exit at the southern end of Holborn station. The
door visible at the top right of the photo belongs to a portacabin
used by the GLC as its flood control centre (before the Thames
Barrier was opened). Another view of the southbound track on
the left is shown below...
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Looking south.
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Looking in the opposite direction from the photo above.
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Looking north from south of Holborn station. The point
where the tunnel divides for Holborn station is visible.
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The twin track tunnel south of Holborn station. Looking
south.
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Approaching the Aldwych station site. The station
itself was decimated for the Waterloo Bridge to Kingsway light
traffic underpass that utilises part of the Kingsway subway.
The up ramp in Kingsway that takes traffic back to
surface level has an inverse effect on the surviving tunnel remnant
below it, i.e. the ceiling level becomes lower and lower the
further one goes along it.
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The view from the surface, looking north.
(Aug 2005)
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A little further south and the lower ceiling height.
This view is looking north.
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On the outer sides of the vertical walls shown in
the photo above are these full height but narrow portions of
the tram tunnel (i.e. the road ramp is built within, and isolated
from, the tram tunnel).
This is what little remains of Aldwych station; the
tiling and advertising boards (the same as at Holborn station).
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Underneath Waterloo Bridge on the Embankment - the
original entrance to the Aldwych/Kingsway tunnel. There can only
be a small section of it remaining.
(All photos Nov 2003 unless stated)
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