mind_the_gap
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I’ve truly fallen in love with the London Transport Museum’s: Hidden London Hangouts series on YouTube. Today I want to showcase Angel station.
It truly is a fascinating station… this is how it looked before as a centre platform station:
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And after, with a second platform added for Northbound trains:
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This station was converted from lift/elevator-only to escalators, so you know there are closed-off passageways!!![Big Grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Here’s a map of the original layout of the station:
at: ~10:00, in the video I listed
Here is the condition of the roughly thirty-year abandonded lift/elevator corridors now:
at: 36:37
For anyone who appreciates this series as well, please comment!
It truly is a fascinating station… this is how it looked before as a centre platform station:
![0_i0000uls-Copy.jpg](https://i2-prod.mylondon.news/incoming/article21639755.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/0_i0000uls-Copy.jpg)
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And after, with a second platform added for Northbound trains:
![Angel_station_southbound_look_north.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Angel_station_southbound_look_north.jpg)
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This station was converted from lift/elevator-only to escalators, so you know there are closed-off passageways!!
Here’s a map of the original layout of the station:
at: ~10:00, in the video I listed
Here is the condition of the roughly thirty-year abandonded lift/elevator corridors now:
at: 36:37
For anyone who appreciates this series as well, please comment!