List of fictional rapid transit stations

There are many instances in popular culture in which fictional underground stations appear. In many cases for film or television, actual stations are used for the purpose of filming.

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List of fictional London Underground stations

• Blackwall – featured in the TV drama series London's Burning.
• Bloomsbury – 1934 film Bulldog Jack.
• Camden Road – Appeared in the film The Gentle Gunman; footage later reused in the 1969 ITV television programme Strange Report.
• Charnham – TV soap Family Affairs.
• Crouch End – 2004 film Shaun of the Dead featured a deleted scene (included on the DVD).

  The title character (played by Simon Pegg) attempted to catch a tube to work from the station only to find it closed. A special 'Crouch End' tube station sign was made for the film scene and, according to Pegg's DVD commentary, is now mounted in his own bedroom. Under an abandoned part of the Underground's 1930s Northern Heights plan the real life Crouch End main line station would have transferred to the Northern line. The station closed in 1954 without the transfer taking place (see also: List of former and unopened London Underground stations).

• Duchess Street – featured in the 1932 Jack Hulbert film Love on Wheels.
• Haggerston – Appeared as an abandoned, sub-surface station in The New Statesman episode, "Waste Not Want Not".

  It should not be confused with the real Haggerston railway station in East London. This station is on an elevated section of the London Overground; it re-opened in 2010, but was disused when the programme was made.

• Hanover Street – 1979 film Hanover Street, starring Harrison Ford.
• Hayne Street – Mock-up found in the Disneyland Paris Disney Studios "Studio Tram Tour" inspired by the film Reign of Fire (2002); the film did not include a completed/named station.
• Hickory Road tube station – in Hickory Dickory Dock, Agatha Christie novel.

  Hickory Dickory Dock, one of Agatha Christie's detective stories featuring Hercule Poirot, is set in Hickory Road in London. A version of the story was made by Carnival Films for London Weekend Television's "Poirot" series. First broadcast in February 1995, the start of the programme sees the main characters alighting from an Underground train and exiting from Hickory Road station. The climax of the programme also involves a chase around the fictional station.

• Hobbs End – 1958–59 BBC serial Quatermass and the Pit and the 1967 film version.

  Featured a tube station called Hobbs End. The station is located at the end of the non-existent 'Hobbs Lane'. One shot shows a new street nameplate reading "Hobbs Lane", and indicating it as being in the W10 postal district. Next to it a much older nameplate reading "Hob's Lane". Hob is an old name for the Devil. The name Hobbs End has more recently been used by London Underground as one of the stations on The Model Railway training simulator at the West Ashfield tube station training facility.^[1]

• Sham Farm Road tube station – in Hope Farm, Michalina Luton – Ławica book (2015) ISBN 978-83-941249-0-8.

  The real name of Sham Farm Road tube station is the Bank station. However, Sham Farm is a real place between Crowborough and Royal Tunbridge Wells at East Sussex, where Darius in the pages of this book, met the Holey Maggie ghost. In the name of Sham Farm Road tube station is encoded real name of Hope Farm.

• Lewisham, Ladywell, Edge of the World and Catford – An episode of LWT comedy series End of Part One

  The main characters watch a film called "The Life of Christopher Columbus". In the film, Columbus goes to a tube station and asks for a train to America but is told he can go only as far as Catford. Part of a modified tube map is shown which shows the fictitious tube stations Lewisham, Ladywell, Edge of the World and Catford on the East London Section of the Metropolitan line south from New Cross station. There is an actual part of the mainline Mid-Kent Railway that interchanges with New Cross station, and the stations are, southwards in order: St. John's, Lewisham, Ladywell and Catford Bridge (Catford on a different line interchanges with the latter).

• Museum – 1972 film Death Line., computer games Broken Sword 2 & Beneath a Steel Sky. (See also: the real British Museum station)
• North Atwood – 2011 video game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.^[2]
• Park Street – 1948 film The Passionate Friends.
• Queen's Arcade – Doctor Who episode Rose.
• Rumbaloo Line – Tube line in Joan Aiken's children's book, Arabel's Raven.
• Sumatra Road – featured in "The Empty Hearse," the first episode of the third series of the British TV crime drama Sherlock; the scenes were shot at Aldwych tube station. The station's name is an allusion to "The Giant Rat of Sumatra", mentioned in the original Sherlock Holmes stories.
• Sun Hill – Long-running ITV police drama, The Bill.
• Union Street – Tube station featured in the 2008 film The Escapist and filmed on location in Holborn tramway station
• Vauxhall Cross – 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day.

  A supposed closed station on a disused branch of the Piccadilly line (similar to Aldwych) that runs south of the river to Vauxhall Cross, in the vicinity of the MI6 building. In fact, the Piccadilly line does not cross the river at all, although Vauxhall on the Victoria line is within about 100 metres.

• Walford East – BBC TV soap Eastenders.

  The BBC soap opera EastEnders created Walford East tube station,^[3] which replaces Bromley-by-Bow on the EastEnders tube map, to allow the locals to escape "up West" for a night out. Neither Walford nor the tube station exists - except on the EastEnders set. Most of the platform and train shots are filmed at East Finchley.

• Wells Lane – BBC Spooks Series 5 Episode 7

  An episode of the BBC series Spooks (broadcast 23 October 2006) featured a fictional disused Underground station called Wells Lane.

• Winchester – The book Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
• World's End – BBC Doctor Who episode "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" (1964).

Fictional Glasgow subway stations

• Shieldinch - BBC Scotland soap River City.

Fictional Chicago subway stations

• Balbo – The Fugitive (filmed at the 203 North LaSalle Street entrance to the Clark & Lake L station).
• Main St. – Shake It Up! (undetermined location but evidently within the city limits, unlike the real Main L station which is located in Evanston, Illinois).

Fictional Manchester Metrolink stations

• Weatherfield - Coronation Street (Tram carried branding of 'Politanlink' - spoof name based on Metrolink. Some footage shot on Metrolink Castlefield bridge and tram crashed from historic Liverpool and Manchester Railway viaducts on plot of TV show) ^[4]

Fictional New York City subway stations

• Lafayette Street - In Knowing, a major collision occurs between a 6 and a 4 train at Lafayette Street station. The front entrance sign says that Lafayette is served by the 4, 5, 6, J/Z, and M trains, making the real station either Canal Street or Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall (M trains still run on Nassau Street Line at this time).^[5]
• Morningside - an upper Manhattan subway stop from the pilot episode of CBS's NYC 22.
• Roscoe Street - a stop from the opening levels of Max Payne. Served by the 2, 4, and 5 trains, it may be inspired by the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station.
• Kings Plaza – a subway stop in Brooklyn at the end of the V train

Fictional stations in other real subway systems

• Georgetown - Washington, D.C. Metro - In No Way Out, a chase scene is depicted as passing through a Georgetown station in the Washington Metro. There is no Georgetown station; the nearest Metro station to Georgetown is Foggy Bottom. The interior of the station depicted in the movie was in the Baltimore Metro subway and not Washington's.^[6]

Gallery

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  Hayne Street tube station on the studio tram tour at Walt Disney Studios, Disneyland Resort Paris.

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  Station roundel prop of Union Street, in situ at Holborn tramway station.

References

1. IanVisits: London Underground’s “secret” tube station "Oh, and I slightly squealed when I noticed one of the stations is called Hobbs End. Sci-Fi film geeks may get the reference."
2. http://uk.ign.com/wikis/uncharted-3-drakes-deception/London_Underground
4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11935407
5. "Knowing’ crew lets you in on the secrets of that subway crash," by Patrick Kevin Day (Los Angeles Times; March 26, 2009)

External links

• Going Underground's - London Underground in Film and TV
• Nick Cooper's - London Underground in Film and TV