Date: 04/07/2021

People will be able to tour platforms on Kingsway station that have remained closed since WW2. A hidden underground tram station in the centre of London, which stood in as the Avengers HQ on the big screen, is to open to the public for the first time since its closure almost 70 years ago. People will be able to tour the platforms and halls of the Kingsway station, which allowed passengers on doubledecker trams to interchange between the once-comprehensive networks north and south of the Thames, which closed after the second world war.

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Hidden London tram station opens to public for first time in 70 years

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People will be able to tour platforms on Kingsway station that have remained closed since WW2

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View from above the northern portal of the old Kingsway Tram Subway at Southampton Row in central London, on 22nd December 2015. The subway was originally opened for single deck tramcars from Southampton Row to Aldwych on 24th February 1906 and extended to its exit on the Victoria Embankment below Waterloo Bridge on 10th April 1908. From 2nd February 1930 to 14th January 1931, the subway was temporarily closed for rebuilding to take double deck trams and for the next 21 years continued to provide a link between the London Tramways north and south of the Thames. But after the wars, trams fell from favour and the subway closed after the last tram on 5th April 1952 although they continued to operate on other routes until the final demise of the London Tram System on 5th July 1952. Trams, of course, returned to the London area in 2000 with the opening of the first part of the Croydon Tramlink system which has since been misleadingly renamed as London Tramlink.
Location: Kingsway Tram Subway
Company: London County Council
22/12/2015 David Bosher

The former southern portal of the Kingsway Tram Subway that opened out onto Victoria Embankment below Waterloo Bridge, seen here on 9th July 2013. This opened for single decker trams from Theobalds Road in Bloomsbury in 1906 to link the tramways north and south of the Thames though not actually passing under the river at all. Trams emerged onto the Embankment and then crossed the river on Waterloo Bridge. In 1931 the Subway was reconstructed for double-decker trams but was closed in April 1952 as part of the London Tram Replacement Scheme, completed in July of the same year. The middle part of the Subway is now the Strand road underpass (one way northbound) that climbs up through the site of Holborn station into Kingsway itself while at the northern end at Theobalds Road the ramp down to the Subway remains, complete with tram tracks, a silent memorial to Londons long lost original vast tramway network.
Location: Kingsway Tram Subway
Company: London County Council
09/07/2013 David Bosher

View down the incline from Southampton Row to the northern portal of the Kingsway Tram Subway at Holborn, closed in April 1952 and seen here just over sixty years later on 6th September 2012. The tracks remain as a silent memorial to London's once-vast tramway network.
Location: Kingsway Tram Subway
Company: London County Council
06/09/2012 David Bosher

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