Qualla: Holborn Tube Station https://qualla.com/holborn-tube-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/holborn-tube-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Holborn Tube Station https://qualla.com/holborn-tube-station Holborn Tube Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/holborn-tube-station/ Photo credit Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0. When the Blitz began in September 1940, London needed somewhere safe to store irreplaceable objects. The branch line tunnels beneath Holborn station, running to Aldwych, were closed to passengers and partly fitted out as an air-raid shelter. They were also used for another purpose: to store items from the British Museum a short walk away, including the Elgin Marbles. The ancient Greek sculptures, removed from the Parthenon in the early 19th century and the subject of diplomatic controversy ever since, spent the war years in a disused Underground tunnel beneath central London.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/holborn-tube-station-wp/gcpv-holborn-tube-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Holborn Tube Station: Junction of Two Railways https://qualla.com/holborn-tube-station/ Photo credit Umezo KAMATA, CC BY-SA 3.0. Holborn station opened in 1906, designed by architect Leslie Green, who typically used a distinctive ox-blood terracotta style for stations along the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. Holborn was an exception: London County Council planning regulations required the...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/holborn-tube-station-wp/gcpv-holborn-tube-station-junction-of-two-railways.mp3 0:06 2 full Holborn Tube Station: The Branch to Nowhere https://qualla.com/holborn-tube-station/ Photo credit Philafrenzy, CC BY-SA 4.0. The short branch from Holborn to Aldwych was always an oddity. Its annual ridership in 1929 was just over a million passengers, generating takings of £4,500. The branch was considered for closure in 1929 and again in 1933. It was temporarily closed on 22 September 1940 during the...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/holborn-tube-station-wp/gcpv-holborn-tube-station-the-branch-to-nowhere.mp3 0:06 3 full Holborn Tube Station: A Particle Physicist's Dream https://qualla.com/holborn-tube-station/ Photo credit Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0. Patrick Blackett, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948 for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber and its application to nuclear physics and cosmic radiation research, once developed plans to install a cosmic ray detector on an abandoned platform at Holborn station. Th...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/holborn-tube-station-wp/gcpv-holborn-tube-station-a-particle-physicists-dream.mp3 0:06 4 full Holborn Tube Station: Underground Fame https://qualla.com/holborn-tube-station/ Photo credit ser:Mahlum, Public domain. The disused branch platforms at Holborn have served a more visible purpose as filming locations. Because they preserve a 1906 Underground station largely unchanged, they double convincingly as any generic London Underground platform in music videos and films. Howard Jones filmed ...

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