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| The preserved booking office at Aldwych Photo: Andy Davis/Yale University Press |
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| A tunnel under the Thames. The original gradient markers on the side record the steepness of the approach to the station Photo: Andy Davis/Yale University Press |
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| Beneath London’s financial district lie the decaying remains of King William Street, the world’s first deep-level tube terminus, which was bypassed and abandoned in 1900 as the network expanded Photo: Andy Davis/Yale University Press |
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| After escalators were fitted at Piccadilly Circus in the 1920s, former lift shafts, landings and passageways were closed to the public. The emergency staircase was removed and the shaft converted to provide ventilation to both lines, helped by a large extractor fan at the top Photo: Andy Davis/Yale University Press |
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| A section of tiled wall at Piccadilly Circus station is stamped with the maker’s mark of WB Simpson and Sons, and the name of Maw and Co. This colour scheme is unique to the station Photo: Andy Davis/Yale University Press |
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| The inside of one of the original Otis lifts at Aldwych station Photo: Andy Davis/Yale University Press |
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| Fan impeller at York Road station, which was closed in 1932 Photo: Andy Davis/Yale University Press |
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| The exterior of the disused South Kentish Town station, closed in 1924 and repurposed as a shop. The station is the location for a short story by John Betjeman, in which a hapless commuter is left stranded underground after inadvertently alighting at the abandoned platform during an unscheduled stop Photo: Andy Davis/Yale University Press |
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| Passageways and lift shafts were converted at Moorgate station to provide ventilation from large fans Photo: Andy Davis/Yale University Press |
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| Green Edwardian-era ticket hall tiling and a red, cream and pink passageway can still be seen at York Road station Photo: Andy Davis/Yale University Press |
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| A ventilation system dating from the second world war at St Mary’s (Whitechapel Road) station, which was converted for use as an air-raid shelter after being closed in 1938. Although the platforms are just below the ground, the shelter survived a bombing during the blitz that badly damaged the surface-level station building. Photo: Andy Davis |
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| Along with health and safety notices, a shrine to St Barbara, the patron saint of tunnellers, can usually be found at underground construction sites, including in Bank station Photo: Andy Davis |
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| Those with a keen eye for detail might spot glimpses of disused stations as they pass by them on underground trains Photo: Andy Davis |
Source: London's abandoned underground – in pictures
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