Brompton Road tube station

Brompton Road is a closed underground station of the London Underground. It was located between the stations Knightsbridge and South Kensington on the Piccadilly Line. In 2013, the Department of Defense, the plant owner decided to sell the station.

History

The station was opened on 15 December 1906 as part of the first section of the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (now the Piccadilly Line) between Finsbury Park and Barons Court Due to low usage passed as early as October 1909 a number of trains the station without stopping. May 4th October 4, 1926 she was temporarily closed due to a general strike. On 29 July 1934, the final closing. On the one hand were numerous stations close to each other and so reduced the average travel speed, on the other hand, the entrance to the station Knightsbridge was closer for installation of an escalator.

As in the station also closed down Street was separated again from the platforms by walls from the tracks and set up offices. In one of the three elevator shafts the control center of London's air defense was set over four floors. Even today, there is a map on which the air defense bases are located. Since then, both the above-ground as well as parts of the underground facilities owned by the Department of Defense. At the end of the platforms were painted onto a screen on the wall, at the then both information and also ( presumably) propaganda films for the people working there could be shown.

Although parts of the above-ground access were demolished in the 1960s, yet there is always a part of the typical facade of the planned by Leslie Green building in a side street off the Brompton Road.

On February 28, 2014, the station was sold by the Ministry of Defence to an unknown investor for 53 million pounds. The station is to be converted in the future into a living room in central London.