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TORONTO




Lower Bay

Below the main platform for Bay station is an abandoned platform, which was used for only six months in 1966 when the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) experimentally ran trains whose routes included portions of both the Yonge-University and Bloor-Danforth lines. This abandoned platform is sometimes referred to as Lower Bay by the general public or Bay Lower by the TTC.


The platform was in service from February to September 1966 as part of an ‘interlining’ experiment, in which the TTC ran trains along three routes, with one matching the subsequent Bloor-Danforth line, and the other two combining parts of the Bloor-Danforth line with the Yonge-University line. The experiment was deemed a failure, largely because delays anywhere quickly cascaded to affect the entire system. Also, as the stations had not been laid out effectively for cross-platform interchange, trains travelling west from St. George and east from Bay alternated between the two levels, leading passengers to wait on the stairs in-between the levels, since they were unable to tell which platform would receive the next train.

With every station served by at least two routes (Bloor-Yonge station was served by all three routes, with the Yonge-University-Danforth route passing through it twice, once on each level), passengers could travel between any two stations without changing trains, but the TTC found that when the extra time waiting for a train from the correct route was considered, the time savings were not significant.



Courtesy: Abebenjoe (Wikipedia)

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Lower Queen

Abandoned underground streetcar stop.

Courtesy: Transit Toronto
http://transit.toronto.on.ca/images/subway-5006-01.jpg

[alexjon]

There is a ghost station on the MAX Blue Line-- a test platform, I think, located here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=Portland,+OR,+USA&ll=45.508151,-122.441785&spn=0.000842,0.002511&t=h&z=19

The current station is about a quarter of a mile to the east

[mersar]

Calgary has one current ghost station that was built beneath city hall. The station is only rough, with no track or finishings in it, it was originally designed when city hall was built in the late 1970's as at that time the LRT was supposed to go below ground in the downtown. Costs increased and they decided to put it above ground instead, so the station sits off a spur in the tunnel that goes between downtown and the south leg. It however won't stay a ghost station forever, the city put $8M into a study late last year to start looking at designs for putting the LRT underground in the downtown (at least for the Northwest-to-South route), which means the station may be eventually finished and put into service. During the strike in 2001 some urban explorers managed to get into the tunnel and take some photo's, after that incident they bricked off the spur so no one can access it, you can see the spur off the west side of the CP Tunnel, visible from both tracks as there was designed to be a switch at that point as well, so no wall between the tracks there)

http://www.barp.ca/bus/lrt/calgary/lrt-tunnel-03.jpg

[rsbear]

There is a ghost station on the MAX Blue Line-- a test platform, I think, located here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=Portland,+OR,+USA&ll=45.508151,-122.441785&spn=0.000842,0.002511&t=h&z=19

The current station is about a quarter of a mile to the east

Hey Alexjon - I think something is wrong, as that map image has the station in the middle of Naito Parkway (Front) between Clay and Market. A quarter mile east would be in the river.

[KVNBKLYN]

New York's closed City Hall station. It was the original terminus of the local track of the IRT subway. I was closed because it's on a sharp curve and is very close to the Brooklyn Bridge station. The 6 train passes through the station to loop back around and go back uptown.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/371596851_0e2bbfade3.jpg

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More photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-seymour/sets/72157594503837009/

[tech12]

There's one in San Francisco, just west of the Castro subway station. It's from back in the day before the whole Muni metro was constructed, but the twin peaks tunnel was there. Instead of continuing east under market street like it does now, the tunnel had it's east portal at market and Castro, and trains would come out there to continue down Market Street. The station was just beyond the tunnel entrance/exit (there are two, parallel on each side of the street, which still exist today as access points for maintenance and such). You can still see the station today if you look closely out the window of the train just before it arrives at Castro station going inbound, or just after as it leaves, going outbound. It doesn't look like much, pretty much a couple of short concrete platforms with a couple benches. It's now used as an emergency exit from the subway, and the stairs lead to metal "doors" laying on the sidewalk on Market Street.

[M II A II R II K]

New York's closed City Hall station. It was the original terminus of the local track of the IRT subway.

Too bad about that one I like the design of the station.

[ardecila]

Chicago has 5 1/2 ghost stations: 3 on the Blue Line (California, Kostner, Central) and 2 on the Green Line (58th and Racine), and 1/2 on the Red Line. Since 1950, the CTA has closed stations with low ridership and (usually) demolished them. These remaining 5 1/2 stations exist either because the CTA hopes for a neighborhood revival, they are architecturally-significant, or they are used for maintenance reasons.

The 1/2 station is kinda tricky. The Red Line runs through the State Street Subway. It has 4 stations in the Loop, and each station has two mezzanine areas (one each at the north and south ends of the platforms). The Jackson station has had its south mezzanine closed, but since it's underground, it would be complicated and expensive to remove. Hence, it is just used as a storage and changing area for CTA workers, and the street entrances have been removed and capped.

[KVNBKLYN]

Too bad about that one I like the design of the station.

It is too bad. That station was meant to be the showpiece of the original IRT system. Unfortunately, it was never particularly practical, given its proximity to the Brooklyn Bridge express station.

[alexjon]

Hey Alexjon - I think something is wrong, as that map image has the station in the middle of Naito Parkway (Front) between Clay and Market. A quarter mile east would be in the river.

Oh, weird-- Google Maps is terrible to me sometimes, haha. Well, to find it, look up SW Civic Drive & SW 13th Ave, Gresham, OR -- a block north of that is the ghost platform.

[Phil McAvity]

I don't understand the two pics from MIIAIIRIIK and KVNBLKYN. If these are ghost stations, why are there people in your pictures?

[jodelli]

I don't understand the two pics from MIIAIIRIIK and KVNBLKYN. If these are ghost stations, why are there people in your pictures?

The Lower Bay station was opened up to the public one day last year as an exhibit. I assume that is when the picture was taken.

jodelli

[M II A II R II K]

Not only that, the video shows the train passing through the ghost station as a temporary detour.

[ThisSideofSteinway]

I don't understand the two pics from MIIAIIRIIK and KVNBLKYN. If these are ghost stations, why are there people in your pictures?

They open up the City Hall station every so often for Transit Museum-sponsored tours.

There are a few more ghost stations along that line and around 16 abandoned or never used stations systemwide (you can see some of them here (http://nycsubway.org/abandsta.html)).

[NJD]

^ alexjon, the info for that deferred MAX station: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham_Civic_(MAX_station)

[Minato Ku]

Paris metro doesn't have many ghost station compared at some other historic system like London Tube.



Closed station

Arsenal 1939
Closed during the WWII and too close of the others stations

Champ de Mars 1939
Closed during the WWII and too close of the others stations

Croix-Rouge 1939
Closed during the WWII and too close of the others stations

Saint-Martin 1939
Closed during the WWII and too close of the others stations

Martin Nadaud 1969,
The station was absorbed by Gambatta station for the extention at Bagnolet of the line 3 and the transformation of the former line 3 eastern part in the line 3bis.
A new Gambetta station was build for the line 3 and the old Gambetta station is the terminus of the lin 3bis
The platform of Martin Nadaud always exist, they are used for the interchange between the line 3 and the line 3bis.

Stations with dead platforms

Porte des Lilas
This station is located in a link between the line 3bis and 7bis called "voies navette et des Fêtes"
These platfom are used for movie.

Gare du Nord
Old terminus station of the line 5, closed in 1942 due at the north eastern extention.

Porte Maillot
Old terminus station of the line 1 closed in 1937 due at the extention at Pont de Neuilly

Victor Hugo
The station was rebuild in 1931 due at a new rolling stock

Never used stations

Porte Molitor
Station lonked in a link between the line 10 and the line 9, it was build to derve the Parc des Prince stadium during the match

Haxo.
Like the dead platform of Porte des Lillas this station located in the "voies navette et des Fêtes."
The line 3bis and 7bis could merge into a sigle line and the station Haxo would opened 100 years after it construction

La Défense - Michelet
Build during the 1970's for the planned extention of the line 1 in La Defense, due at high cost of construction the line 1 never take this way.
This doesn't have track but platform was build
(closest actually station Espalande de la Defense)

Élysées La Défense
Like La Défense - Michelet (closest actually station Defense Grande Arche)
It doesn't have track and platform. This station is very huge and could be used for the extention of the RER E

Orly Sud
In 1959, an extention of the line 7 at Orly was planned.


Demolished station
Les halles was rebuild closer to the RER station in 1977, the old station was Demolished for the construction of the Forum des Halles

Reopened station
Cluny - La Sorbonne, closed during the WWII in 1939 and reopened in 1988 with the opening of the RER B station Saint Michel Notre Dame

[ColDayMan]

Here are some of Cincinnati's ghost stations:

Brighton Station
http://www.cincinnati-transit.net/zsubway-b1.jpg

Liberty Street Station
http://www.cincinnati-transit.net/zsubway-liberty2.jpg

Race St Station
http://www.cincinnati-transit.net/zsubway-r1.jpg

http://www.cincinnati-transit.net/zsubway-r2.jpg

And others here:
http://www.cincinnati-transit.net/subway.html

[MSPtoMKE]

I have heard the when the Wells Fargo Center (originally Norwest Tower) was built, they included a very roughed out space somewhere in the basement levels for an underground Light Rail station, but I don't really have any information about it. Our Light Rail runs at street level, so it is unlikely that it will be used.

[alexjon]

^ alexjon, the info for that deferred MAX station: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham_Civic_(MAX_station)

Oh, sweet!

I love passing by it, and now I have an even better feeling about it!

[mersar]

I have heard the when the Wells Fargo Center (originally Norwest Tower) was built, they included a very roughed out space somewhere in the basement levels for an underground Light Rail station, but I don't really have any information about it. Our Light Rail runs at street level, so it is unlikely that it will be used.

We had a similar myth in Calgary, in that there is supposedly a station in the basement of one of the Bankers Hall towers which lie along the past and likely future route of the LRT once it gets put underground. In reality there is/was an auditorium down there, nothing more.

[staff]

There's an amazing article on Charleroi's abandoned Stadtbahn system written by a Swedish professor or something, I'll see if I can find it and perhaps translate it.

[theWatusi]

Here are some of Cincinnati's ghost stations:


Those pictures are sweet! Thanks

[M II A II R II K]

This is a good site for abandoned London stations

http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/

[hammersklavier]

There are three ghost stations in Philadelphia's subway system.

One, called the Spring Garden Station (not to be confused with the other Spring Garden Station, still currently being used, or with the former Reading Spring Garden Station, likewise abandoned) can still be seen on the Broad-Ridge Spur. Weird Pennsylvania has a profile on it. It was closed because of low traffic (it is only two blocks or so from the BSL's Spring Garden Station).

The second, called Franklin Square, is under Franklin Square. Like the Spur's ghost station, you can still see it zipping by on the PATCO. It was last used during the Bicentennial.

The third, and most mysterious, is the station in the west pier of the Ben Franklin Bridge. It is rumored to have been completed, but never used due to a long-standing feud between the governors of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Of course, there are several more abandoned stations you can see on the Regional Rails (52nd Street, for instance...) but I don't have a hard count on those.

[volguus zildrohar]

Franklin Square is coming off the list if the representative at the Alternatives community meetings is to be believed.

[i_am_hydrogen]

New York:
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/nostalgia6/lowv.html

[Coldrsx]

In Edmonton there is a `station` that was built just NE of the churchill station that was to be used to ferry detainees from the jail 15min NE of Edmonton to the courts and remand centre, but it never happened. It is a side loading platform and can be somewhat seen when on trains passing by.

In all likelihood it will become the new dedicated station for our downtown NHL rink in coming years.

[M II A II R II K]

I think there's an entire line in Rochester that's a ghost now.

[bvpcvm]

Oh, sweet!

I love passing by it, and now I have an even better feeling about it!

Just to clarify, that station was not built "in 1986" as the article on Wikipedia states; it was built in the late 90's when the civic neighborhood project began. It was not built together with the rest of the original line.

[SuburbanNation]

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Wabash Delmar Station at the western edge of St. Louis City. The area near it is used as a light rail station, but the building itself is currently mothballed, patiently awaiting a call. Wish I could say I've been inside...

As you can see its built on a platform, so I hope its structurally sound. The street in front of it was just rebuilt.
This is just past the eastern edge of the Delmar "Loop," so the station has a really good chance of becoming...something again.

[SKYSTHELIMIT]

We had a similar myth in Calgary, in that there is supposedly a station in the basement of one of the Bankers Hall towers which lie along the past and likely future route of the LRT once it gets put underground. In reality there is/was an auditorium down there, nothing more.

I've been in that auditorium for a wedding reception recently. If you get the chance and check it out you will see the design is really obscure, and why have it way below ground. That auditorium in my opinion is the station in disguise biding its time in a useful form until it is called upon. Thats what I think.

[nick_taylor]

This is a good site for abandoned London stations

http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/I'll expand upon that. It took some time, and below is a list of pretty much every closed station in London grouped by line.

Many closed due to proximity to competing company railway lines, to increase line speeds, while others closed due to war damage. The gaps were either filled in by stations that were close-by (owned by the railway company that made a profit), replaced altogether, or moved along the line (to allow for easier passenger access, or longer platforms).

Some stations and lines are however being re-used, with lines and station sites being brought back into use with modern ammenities. There are several current examples of this happening:
- The East London Line Extension has a section that utilises the former North London Line that ran into the old Broad Street terminus
- The DLR network is built pretty much on the lines of the London & Blackwall Railway routes (as is the Stratford International Extension)
- Crossrail will utilise a section of the North London Line that ran to North Woolwich
- The Metropolitan Line Croxley Extension would run on a disused route

I didn' bother trying to count stations in the 'metro area', as I'd be here for days, but amazingly there are still 600 and 1,200 stations in the city and metro area respectively.


CENTRAL
Blake Hall - Remote station that had little passenger use
British Museum - When the new interchange station at Holborn opened, the station was too close
North Weald - Low passenger usage
Ongar - Former distant terminus for the Central Line
Wood Lane - Replaced by two nearby stations


DISTRICT
Aldgate East - Closed due to a new railway junction built on its location
Earls Court - Closed when the current station opened to the west
Hounslow Town - Located on a closed branch on a route that was eventually taken over by the Piccadilly Line; station replaced by Houslow East
Mark Lane - Closed after the nearby Tower Hill station opened.
St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) - The relocation of Aldgate East led to the closure of this station
South Acton - On a disused branch with low passenger numbers
Tower of London - On the site of the present Tower Hill station

EAST LONDON
Shoreditch - Closed in 2006 to make way for a new station called Shoreditch High Street on a viaduct (the previous Shoreditch station was in a deep cutting) of the East London Line Extension

METROPOLITAN
Brill - Closed along with the branch it was on
Gainsborough Road - Distant station that was on a disused line
Grove Road (Hammersmith) - On a now dis-used loop line
Hillingdon - To the east of the present station
Kings Cross St Pancras - Located further to the east of the present station
Lord's - Closed to facilitate faster line speeds
Marlborough Road - Closed to facilitate faseter line speeds (next station on from Lord's)
Quainton Road - On the furthest stretch of the Metropolitan Line, cut back due to distance from Central London
Swiss Cottage - Closed during WW2 and never re-opened
Uxbridge - New alignment to Uxbridge meant this station was not on the new route
Uxbridge Road - On a spur line to Olympia, closed during WW2 due to direct hits and never opened again for passenger service
Verney Junction - On a distant branch
Waddesdon - Similar to other Metropolitan stations in that it was on the furthest reaches of the network
Waddesdon Park - Branch closed
Westbourne Park - New station located further east
Westcott - On a disused branch
Winslow Road - Disused branch
Wood Lane - Closed due to a fire which destroyed the station
Wood Siding - On a disused branch
Wotton - Disused branch

NORTHERN
City Road - Low passenger numbers
King William Street - Original terminus for the Northern Line until a new alignment was built via Bank
South Kentish Town - Low passenger numbers

PICCADILLY
Aldwych - Terminus of a small branch that saw little passenger use
Brompton Road - Closed due to low passenger numbers
Down Street - New entrances at the two closest tube stations led to the demise of this station
Hillingdon - To the east of the present station
Northfields & Little Ealing - A new station further along replaced this one
Osterley & Spring Grove - Closed when a new station opened to the south-west
Park Royal & Twyford Abbey - Relocated further along the line
South Harrow - Relocated to the north
Uxbridge - New alignment to Uxbridge meant this station was not on the new route
York Road - Low passenger numbers


ADDISCOMBE LINE
Addiscombe - Terminus station - entire line fell into disuse, most of route covered by new tram line
Bingham Road - Line closed and re-opened as part of a tram line
Coombe Road - Replaced by a tram station
Selsdon - Station proximity close to nearby stations
Spencer Road -
Woodside - Line closed and re-opened as part of a tram line

ALEXANDRA PALACE LINE
Alexandra Palace - Dwindling passenger use on a line that saw competition from other branches
Cranley Gardens - Low passenger use
Crouch End - Low passenger use
Muswell Hill - Low passenger use
Stroud Green - Low passenger use
West Green - Low passenger use

BEXLEYHEATH LINE
Eltham Park - Closed and replaced by Eltham station
Eltham Well Hall - Closed and replaced by Eltham station

BEXLEYHEATH LINE - GREENWICH PARK BRANCH
Blackheath Hill - Closed with the rest of the line - poor use
Brockley Lane - Closed with the rest of the line - poor use
Greenwich Park - Closed with the rest of the line - poor use
Lewisham Road - Closed with the rest of the line - poor use

BRIGHTON MAIN LINE
Bricklyers' Arms - On a spur that saw little use
Commercial Docks - Closed to increase line speeds
Coulsdon South - Closed to facilitate faster train speeds between London and Brighton

BRIGHTON MAIN LINE - CROYDON CENTRAL BRANCH
Croydon Central - Short lived spur line to better connect Croydon with London (the town centre has two major stations on its flanks)

CATFORD LOOP LINE - CRYSTAL PALACE BRANCH
Crystal Palace (High Level) - The burning down of the Crystal Palace and nearby stations competed for traffic
Honor Oak - Close to other stations
Lordship Lane - Low passenger usage
Upper Sydenham - Low passenger usage

CHATHAM MAIN LINE
Battersea Park Road - Located across the road from a rival station that is still open
Grosvenor Road - Poor catchment (located next to the Thames and too close to London Victoria)

CHILTERN MAIN LINE
Wembley Stadium - Opened as a loop some distance from the present station that serves Wembley

CHILTERN MAIN LINE - UXBRIDGE BRANCH
Uxbridge High Street - Closed to passengers when a further extension was abandoned

DUDDING HILL LINE
Dudding Hill - Connection Line that is now a freight line
Harlesden - Connection Line that is now a freight line

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY - BECKTON BRANCH
Beckton - WW2 damage and bus competition saw the end to this line
Central - Decline of docks
Connaught Road - Decline of docks
Custom House - Low passenger use (next to a new DLR station, but could re-open as a Crossrail station)
Gallions - Closed due to poor usage
Manor Way - Low passenger use
Stratford Market - Lack of traffic (and close to Stratford station), but due to open as part of the Stratford International DLR Extension in 2010
Tidal Basin - Destroyed during the war, re-built as part of the DLR

GOSPEL OAK - BARKING LINE
Hornsey Road - Closed during the war and never re-opened
Junction Road - Closed during the war and never re-opened
St Ann's Road - Closed during the war and never re-opened

GREAT EASTERN MAIN LINE
Bishopsgate - Terminus for a few amalgamated routes before the present-day London Liverpool Street was built
Bishopsgate Low Level - Seperate station from the old terminus - located on approach tracks to London Liverpool Street
Coborn Road - Nearby tube station competition
Globe Road - Close to nearby tube station
Mile End - Very close to the still-open Bethnal Green station

GREAT EASTERN MAIN LINE - TOTTENHAM HALE CONNECTION
Lea Bridge - Little use in the past, but could see future use due to its location next to the 2012 Olympic Park
Queens Road - Built, but not opened

GREAT EASTERN MAIN LINE - FENCHURCH ST CONNECTION
Bow Road - On a connecting spur that saw little use
Burdett Road - Nearby tube station and WW2 saw to its closure
Lea Bridge - Spur station that saw little use

GREAT WESTERN MAIN LINE
Heathrow Junction - Opened before the Heathrow Express branch was completed, closed when the branch was completed
Royal Oak - Closed because of competition with the Hammersmith & City line station of the same name
Westbourne Park - Closed because of competition with the Hammersmith & City line station of the same name

GREAT WESTERN MAIN LINE - BRENTFORD BRANCH
Brentford Town - Line is now used only for freight

GREAT WESTERN MAIN LINE - UXBRIDGE BRANCH
Cowley - Built in anticipation of a new line to connect Staines and Denham, the middle section was built, but the rest was never completed leaving a little branch which then saw little usage.
Uxbridge Vine Street - Unable to compete with the busier and better located Uxbridge Underground station

GREAT WESTERN MAIN LINE - STAINES WEST BRANCH
Colnbrook - Opened in preperation of future demand that never arrived
Colnbrook Estate Halt - Line didn't see high passenger use
Old Oak Lane Halt - Little use by passengers
Poyle - The M25 motorway now resides in its location
Poyle Estate Halt - Little usage - now under London Heathrow Airport
Staines West - Former terminus station - unable to compete with local station with more direct services to London
Yeoveney Halt - Small station located before a branch to the Staines to Windsor & Eton Line

GREENWICH LINE
Southwark Park - Competition from other routes
Spa Road - Competition from other routes

HOUNSLOW LOOP LINE
Smallberry Green - Built as a temporary station till bridges further along the line were completed

LEA VALLEY LINES
Lower Edmonton - Closed station on a connection line connecting the two Lea Valley Lines

LONDON & BLACKWALL RAILWAY
Blackwall - Terminus of a line serving dockyards
Cannon Street Road - Unknown reason (closed before 1850)
Leman Street - Opened and closed briefly on the mainline into Fenchurch Street
Limehouse - Served the old dockyards, area is now served by nearby DLR line
Minories - Previous terminus for what is now the C2C commuter rail line, but was replaced by Fenchurch Street slightly to the west. Current site is now occupied by the Tower Gateway DLR station
Poplar - Poor usage when services eastwards were axed

LONDON & BLACKWALL RAILWAY - Millwall Branch
Millwall Docks - Served the old London docks, the DLR station Crossharbour is nearby
Millwall Junction - Part of the old dock network, replaced by the nearby Poplar DLR station
North Greenwich - Not to be confused with the tube station of the same name (several km away), this was the terminus for the L&BR and on the northern bank of the Thames opposite Greenwich
Shadwell - Station moved westwards
South Dock - Poor passenger usage, the DLR South Quay station is nearby
West India Docks - Poor passenger usage, the DLR South Quay station is nearby

LONDON & SOUTH WEST RAILWAY HAMMERSMITH LINE
Hammersmith (Grove Road) - Line closed due to high concentration to stations in the area
Shepherd's Bush - Little usage

MIDLAND MAIN LINE
Camden Road - Closed in the first world war and never re-opened
Finchley Road - Little used
Haverstock Hill - Competition from nearby stations
Welsh Harp - Opened as a retreat from London (back when the area hadn't been engulfed), but closed after 3 years

NORTH LONDON LINE
Bow - WW2 damaged, never re-opened
Broad Street - Former terminus for the line
Custom House - The tracks remain, but the station was replaced by the next-door DLR station. Crossrail is expected to have a station here
Dalston Junction - Line was closed when Broad Street closed (but due to re-open as part of the East London Line Extension)
Haggerston - Line was closed when Broad Street closed (but due to re-open as part of the East London Line Extension)
Hampstead Road - The previous station to Primrose Hill which itself was later closed
Kensal Green & Harlesden - Competition from tube network
Kew Bridge - Junction station with the Hounslow Loop Line - nearby Kew Bridge station was busier
Maiden Lane - Connected to the ECML, but was eventually closed after poor patronage in the 1910's. Could re-open as part of the King's Cross Rail Lands development
Mildmay Park - Too close to Canonbury station
North Woolwich - One of the more recently closed stations (late 2006), most of this stretch of the NLL has been replaced by the DLR City Airport Branch (which is still being extended under the Thames to Woolwich). Crossrail will use some of the route
Old Ford - Destroyed by fire during the Blitz and never re-opened. Now crossed by a motorway
Poplar - Terminus station on a branch that was cut off by the Blitz
Primrose Hill - Cut off connection station
Shoreditch - Line was closed when Broad Street closed (but due to re-open as part of the East London Line Extension)
Silvertown - Closed recently, but could re-open as part of a Crossrail station
South Bromley - Closed during the Blitz, and demolished when the DLR was built
Victoria Park - Bomb damage destroyed the station and replaced after the war by Hackney Wick station to the east

NORTH LONDON LINE - HAMMERSMITH BRANCH
Bath Road - Poor passenger use
Hammersmith & Chiswick - Poor passenger use
Rugby Road - Poor passenger use
Woodstock Road - Poor passenger use

PALACE GATES LINE
Noel Park - Poor usage
Palace Gates - Located very close to a tube station and the ECML Alexandra Palace station
West Green - Unprofitable line that competed with the Piccadilly Line

SOUTH EASTERN MAIN LINE
Blackfriars Bridge - Replaced by Waterloo East further along the line

SOUTH LONDON LINE
East Brixton - Closed due to a fire, but could open as part of the East London Line Extension
Old Kent Road - Closed as it was on a disused spur, will re-open (700m further to the north) as Surrey Canal Road as part of the East London Line Extension

SOUTH WEST MAIN LINE
London Necropolis - A station close to London Waterloo that served as a funeral station (a station where the carriages are hearsts that take the body and family members to Brookwood Cemetery outside London)
Kingston - Close to nearby stations
Nine Elms - Previous terminus of the SWML in the Vauxhall area, the current terminus is located closer to Central London in a more convenient location at London Waterloo
Waterloo International - Adjacent to London Waterloo, closed in 2007 when Eurostar services moved to London St Pancras. Talks are on-going to try and utilise the platforms for commuter train services

SOUTH WEST MAIN LINE - MERTON BRANCH
Merton Abbey - Competition from nearby tube station
Tooting Junction - Too small to handle the volume of traffic

STAINES TO WINDSOR LINE
Staines High Street - Services made redundant when a chord was removed
Staines West - Services made redundant when a chord was removed

SUTTON & MOLE VALLEY LINES
Brandon - Passenger use low
Epsom Downs - Terminus station of the line, moved further up the line

THAMESLINK
Blackfriars Bridge - Original terminus located on the south bank of the Thames, re-built north of the Thames on a bridge
Borough Road - Competed and lost to the Northern Line
Camberwell - Closed during the first world war
Holborn Viaduct - Closed and replaced by City Thameslink
Kings Cross Thameslink - Closed and replaced by a new station under St Pancras International
Ludgate Hill - Close to the location of the current City Thameslink
Snow Hill - A tunnel closure cut the link to this station
Walworth Road - Closure was meant to be temporary during WW1, and it was due to be converted as part of an extension to the Bakerloo line which never happened due to WW2

WATFORD & RICKMANSWORTH LINE
Rickmansworth (Church Street) - Poor usage

WEST COAST MAIN LINE - HARROW & WEALDSTONE - STANMORE
Belmont - Entire branch line closed due to local rail competition
Stanmore Village - Entire branch line closed due to local rail competition

WEST COAST MAIN LINE - CROXLEY GREEN BRANCH
Croxley Green - Little usage, but could re-open as an extension to the Metropolitan Line
Croxley West - Little usage, but could re-open as an extension to the Metropolitan Line
Watford Stadium - Little usage, but could re-open as an extension to the Metropolitan Line

WEST LONDON LINE
Battersea - Location close to Clapham Junction
Chelsea & Fulham - Bombed during WW2 and did not re-open
St Quintin Park & Wormwood Scrubs - Bombed during WW2 and did not re-open
Uxbridge Road - Competition from other transport, but re-opened in 2008 as Shepherd's Bush

WIMBLEDON TO WEST CROYDON LINE
Beddington Lane - Closed and re-opened as a tram stop
Merton Park - Closed and re-opened as a tram stop
Morden Road - Closed and re-opened as a tram stop
Waddon Marsh - Closed and re-opened as a tram stop

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_closed_railway_stations_in_London

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Miami has a ghost platform. It's part of the Government Center station and was meant as terminus for a planned East/West line that never panned out. Not really very exciting, but not many people notice it.