Why is THE STRAND tube station bricked up in london?
People being thrown on to the tracks wouldn’t be a reason. Occasionally people commit suicide that way, which not only causes chaos but traumatises the driver who usually needs a lot of therapy afterwards. If you want to kill yourself, it’s about one of the most inconsiderate methods I can think of. But that happens at various stations, not just one. There have been a number of stations that have closed for various reasons, and if that happens in the middle of a line then trains just run straight through. Down Street and Dover Street on the Piccadilly line are like this. The only one that has on the Strand is Aldwych, which was a single line branch from Holborn. To get to it, you had to get off at Holborn and change to a little shuttle train that just ran back and forth between the two stations. It was closed for the usual reason that it just wasn’t economic to keep it open because of low usage, and is now frequently hired out by Transport for London as a film set for any film that has
