'Ghost' Tube Station

Aldwych Station Re-Opens for TfL Exhibition: Closed to the commuting public since 1994, Aldwych station is to briefly re-open [for 12 days] for a special exhibition on 'Transforming the Tube'. Only the ticket hall will be accessible...

27 photos under the cut...

Exterior on the Strand.
Exterior on the Strand.
Exterior on Surrey Street.
Entrance on Surrey Street.
The station assistant office in the main entrance hall.
The station assistant office window.
The station assistant office window.
Main entrance hall.
Classic Piccadilly Line tiling, 1908.
Money and tickets go here.
Banister and tiling.
Entrance to the ticket hall.
Windows in the ticket hall.
Windows in the ticket hall.
Telephone booths from the days when nobody had a mobile.
Lift to platform level.
Lift.
Safety first.
View through the little window to the bit of the lift that was closed to the public.
View through the little window to the bit of the lift that was closed to the public.
The door that links the two sections of the lift. (Actually, not sure if the lift is divided into two halves or whether these are two separate lifts...) This half had a poster of the original Harry Beck 1931 Tube map on the wall.
Door of the lift in the exit hall.
Exit sign.
Some more information about the station.
A photo of some filming happening at platform level.
And appropriately enough, I went home...
... on a Routemaster. Ding ding!

Photos of the bits not open to the public this time can be seen here.