List of fictional rapid transit stations

Last updated January 14, 2024

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.

Fictional London Underground stations

Bankside – 2020 video game Watch Dogs: Legion .
Belgravia – 1960 film Piccadilly Third Stop .
Blackwall – featured in the TV drama series London's Burning .
Bloomsbury – 1934 film Bulldog Jack .
The film features a chase/fight scene in a disused Bloomsbury station on the Central line, connected to the British Museum by a secret tunnel. A map is seen on the wall of the train in the climax scene, involving a race through the tunnels on a runway tube train. The map lists the stations between Ealing Broadway and Liverpool Street from top to bottom, and includes "Bloomsbury", between the now-closed British Museum and Chancery Lane, in place of Holborn, as well as a fictional High Holborn station located in-between Chancery Lane and Post Office (now St Paul's). In an absence of continuity, the map later changes to another, where the order is reversed, with Liverpool Street at the top and, "Western Avenue" is at the bottom. This different map includes a number of fictional stations in place of the real station names. It now reads: Liverpool Street, Bank, Post Office (now St Paul's), Holborn, Bloomsbury, New Oxford Street, Langham (presumably a reference to Langham Place near Oxford Circus), Cavendish Street, Cumberland (presumably a reference to the Cumberland Gate of Hyde Park), Gloucester Gate, Campden Hill, Kensington Park, Holland Road, White City (which was yet to be built in 1935), North Perivale, East Perivale, and Western Avenue, where the chase terminates. The station names at the end of this fictional version of the Central line reflect the locations of some of the stations that would later form the extension of the Central line towards West Ruislip. Bloomsbury was the initial name considered for British Museum station but was dropped before the station opened.^[1]
Brewer Street – 2020 video game Watch Dogs: Legion.
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 .
Constitution Hill – 2004 Time Hunter novella The Tunnel at the End of the Light.
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.
Embassy – 2020 video game Watch Dogs: Legion.
Ginners Park – station used as a shelter in an air raid in the 1942 film Unpublished Story starring Richard Greene and Valerie Hobson.
Grays Inn – Portrayed as a deep level Piccadilly line station, in the series 5 episode (Tubes help you breed less easily) of the British T.V. sticom, Shelley. Broadcast, 2nd December 1982.
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 – 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.
High Street – 1954 film The Good Die Young with Laurence Harvey. Locations in Barbican/Farringdon area.
Hobbs End – 1967 film Quatermass and the Pit.
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 Underground station training facility.^[2]
Lambeth – 2020 video game Watch Dogs: Legion.
Lewisham, Ladywell, Edge of the World and Catford – in an episode of the 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).
Marble Hill – seen at the beginning of the 1991 Poirot: Wasps' Nest, adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie. In reality, Arnos Grove Underground station was used as the location.^[3]
Museum – 1972 film Death Line . (See also: the real British Museum station)
Norbidge – 2022 drama-thriller series Inside Man .
North Atwood – 2011 video game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception .^[4]
Old Kent Road – 2020 video game Watch Dogs: Legion.
Park Street – 1948 film The Passionate Friends .
Riverside – 2020 video game Watch Dogs: Legion.
Queen's Arcade – Doctor Who episode Rose.
Rumbaloo Line – Tube line in Joan Aiken's children's book, Arabel's Raven .
Scratch Row – an abandoned tube station in Wireless Theatre's Victorian-set fantasy-adventure audio series, The Springheel Saga .
Sumatra Road – featured in "The Empty Hearse," the first episode of the third series of the British TV crime drama Sherlock .
The station's name is an allusion to "The Giant Rat of Sumatra", mentioned in the original Sherlock Holmes stories. It is fictionally located between Westminster and St. James's Park, underneath the Houses of Parliament. In the story, the station was partially constructed but never opened, being similar to North End. The scenes were shot at Aldwych Underground station.
Sun Hill – Long-running ITV police drama, The Bill .

Tidis – 2020 video game Watch Dogs: Legion.
Union Street – featured in the 2008 film The Escapist and filmed on location in Holborn tramway station. Altered versions of Harry Beck's 1941 map were produced for the film, showing the station located between Borough and Elephant & Castle, close to the position of London's real Union Street.^[5]^[6]

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.
Viaduct – 2020 video game Watch Dogs: Legion.
Walford East – BBC TV soap Eastenders .
The BBC soap opera EastEnders created Walford East Underground station,^[7] 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. A station at Walford West has also been referenced by characters in the show.
Walworth Road – 2020 video game Watch Dogs: Legion.
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.
West Ashfield – see West Ashfield Underground station.
Westbourne Oak – in the 2014 film Paddington . Presumably a reference to both Royal Oak and Westbourne Park; the actual filming location was Maida Vale station.^[8]
Wickerswood – 1936 film Man in the Mirror featuring Alastair Sim.
Winchester – The book Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs .
World's End – 1964 BBC Doctor Who episode "The Dalek Invasion of Earth".

Fictional Glasgow Subway stations

Shieldinch – BBC Scotland soap River City .

Fictional Chicago "L" 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 North tram stop – introduced into the Granada Television soap opera Coronation Street in 2018.^[9]

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).^[10] The driver's announcement that Spring Street was the next station makes it possible that it could have been Bleecker Street, which in turn is known as Broadway-Lafayette Street on the IND Sixth Avenue Line, where there is an in-station transfer (then only for southbound 6 trains).
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. The V train however at no point ever had any exclusive stations, sharing all of its stations with the E, F, or R trains, and not going to Brooklyn, except for a brief unexpected extension to Euclid Avenue in January 2005 after a signal room fire at Chambers Street.

For the filming of Morbius (2022), an NYC-Subway styled station signage with its name "Front Street" served by the 2, 3, A, and C trains, similar to the Chambers Street/Park Place station complex or Fulton Street, was placed in the disused Jubilee line section at Charing Cross station on the London Underground. Similar signs were placed on buildings in the Northern Quarter of Manchester. The film also incorrectly depicts the New York Subway running on a fourth rail the way the London Underground does.

Fictional Washington, D.C. Metro stations

Cathedral Heights – The second season premiere of Netflix's House of Cards features a scene inside the Cathedral Heights station of the Washington Metro. Cathedral Heights is a real D.C. neighborhood, but there is no Cathedral Heights station; the closest Metro stations to the neighborhood are Tenleytown-American University station to the north and Cleveland Park station to the east.^[11]
Farragut – The first season of Showtime's Homeland contains a scene outside of D.C.'s Farragut station, portrayed as a Metro stop on the red and orange lines. In fact, there is no Farragut Station. There is a Farragut North station, on the red line, and a Farragut West station, on the orange, blue, and silver lines. The scene was filmed in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[12]
Georgetown – 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.^[13]
Pyron – In The Walking Dead Season 11 (Episode 1), characters working their way towards another settlement seek refuge from a storm and continue passage through a Metro station on the yellow line. Negan directs the group that to get to Bethesda, they should "...take the Yellow line north and switch to Blue at Ronald Reagan National Airport Station, then on to the Red to Bethesda."

Stations in Fictional countries

Lollipop Park Estates – In Adventure Time Season 5 (episode 43) "Root Beer Guy", station of Candy Kingdom Subway in the Candy Kingdom

Related Research Articles

Aldwych is a closed station on the London Underground, located in the City of Westminster in Central London. It was opened in 1907 with the name Strand, after the street on which it is located. It was the terminus of the short Piccadilly line branch from Holborn that was a relic of the merger of two railway schemes. The station building is close to the Strand's junction with Surrey Street, near Aldwych. During its lifetime, the branch was the subject of a number of unrealised extension proposals that would have seen the tunnels through the station extended southwards, usually to Waterloo.

Holborn is a London Underground station in Holborn, Central London, located at the junction of High Holborn and Kingsway. It is served by the Central and Piccadilly lines. On the Central line the station is between Tottenham Court Road and Chancery Lane stations; on the Piccadilly line it is between Covent Garden and Russell Square and is in Travelcard Zone 1. Close by are the British Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury Square, London School of Economics and Sir John Soane's Museum.

Baker Street is a London Underground station at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster. It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world's first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863.

British Museum was a station on the London Underground, located in Holborn, central London. It was latterly served by the Central line and took its name from the nearby British Museum in Great Russell Street.

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City Road is a disused London Underground station in Islington, central London. It was opened in 1901 as part of the City & South London Railway's extension from Moorgate Street to Angel. City Road was situated between Old Street and Angel. The railway is now part of the Northern line.

Angel is a London Underground station in the Angel area of the London Borough of Islington. It is on the Bank branch of the Northern line, between King's Cross St. Pancras and Old Street stations, in Travelcard Zone 1. The station was originally built by the City & South London Railway (C&SLR) and opened on 17 November 1901. The station served as a terminus until the line was extended to Euston on 12 May 1907.

Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), is a disused station on the London Underground, located in Mayfair, west London. The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opened it in 1907. It was latterly served by the Piccadilly line and was situated between Dover Street (now named Green Park) and Hyde Park Corner stations.

The London deep-level shelters are eight deep-level air-raid shelters that were built under London Underground stations during World War II.

Broad Street was a major rail terminal in the City of London, adjacent to Liverpool Street station. It served as the main terminus of the North London Railway (NLR) network, running from 1865 to 1986. During its lifetime, it catered for mainly local suburban services around London, and over time struggled to compete with other modes of transport, leading to its closure.

Farragut West station is a Washington Metro station in downtown Washington, D.C., United States. The side-platformed station was opened on July 1, 1977, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Providing service for the Blue, Silver, and Orange Lines, the station is located just west of Farragut Square with two entrances on I Street at 17th and 18th Streets NW.

Holborn tramway station was a tram stop underneath Kingsway in central London, England. It was built in 1906 by the London County Council Tramways as part of the Kingsway tramway subway, joining the separate networks of tramways in North and South London. When opened it was named Great Queen Street.

Arnos Grove is a London Underground station located in Arnos Grove in the London Borough of Enfield, London. It is on the Piccadilly line between Bounds Green and Southgate stations and is in Travelcard Zone 4. The station opened on 19 September 1932 as the most northerly station on the first section of the Piccadilly line extension from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters. It was the terminus of the line until services were further extended to Oakwood on 13 March 1933. When travelling from east of Barons Court and through Central London, Arnos Grove is the first surface station after the long tunnel section of the Piccadilly line. The station has four platforms which face three tracks.

Catford railway station is one of two stations serving the London suburb of Catford. Mainly used by commuters, it is in Travelcard Zone 3 and is on the Catford Loop Line, between Crofton Park and Bellingham. It is served mainly by Thameslink trains between West Hampstead Thameslink, London Blackfriars and Sevenoaks. Connections to London Victoria are available at Peckham Rye. Catford is 8 miles 3 chains (12.9 km) measured from Victoria.

Catford Bridge railway station is on the Mid-Kent Line, serving Hayes line trains from London to Hayes. It lies between Ladywell and Lower Sydenham stations, 7 miles 42 chains (12.1 km) from London Charing Cross and in Travelcard Zone 3. It is adjacent to Catford railway station on the Catford Loop line. The station entrance is on Catford Road, a part of the South Circular Road (A205), and has brick buildings on both platforms, though the up side building is no longer in use by the railway. The station is managed by Southeastern, who operate all trains serving it.

Marlborough Road is a disused London Underground station in St John's Wood, northwest London NW8, England. It opened in April 1868 on the Metropolitan & St. John's Wood Railway, the first northward extension from Baker Street of the Metropolitan Railway. It is located at the junction of Finchley Road and Queen's Grove.

Victoria Park was a railway station near Victoria Park, east London, that was on the North London Railway (NLR) which opened in September 1850 to Bow and to the London Docks in January 1852.

References to the New York City Subway in popular culture are prevalent, as it is a common element in many New Yorkers' lives.

Johns Hopkins Hospital station is an underground Metro SubwayLink station in Baltimore, Maryland. It is located by Johns Hopkins Hospital, and is the final stop on the line.

References

↑ Connor, J E (2001). London's Disused Underground Stations (2nd ed.). Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. ISBN 978-1854142504.
↑ 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."
↑ "Poirot Locations – Wasp's Nest". Tvlocations.net. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
↑ "London Underground – Uncharted 3 Wiki Guide – IGN". Uk.ign.com. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
↑ Taylor, Dave (January 2010). "Subway Art". London Transport Museum Friends News (100): 7.
↑ "Fantasy Map: London Underground Map from "The Escapist"". Transit Maps. 5 November 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
↑ "Albert Square map". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
↑ "Paddington film locations". MovieLocations.com. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
↑ Bourne, Dianne (12 March 2018). "First look at Coronation Street's new street". men. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
↑ "Knowing’ crew lets you in on the secrets of that subway crash," by Patrick Kevin Day (Los Angeles Times; March 26, 2009)
↑ Butler, Bethonie (24 February 2014). "What's up with Hollywood's fake Metro stations?". Washington Post. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
↑ "Why Movies and TV Shows Set in DC Aren't Usually Filmed in DC | Washingtonian (DC)". Washingtonian. 30 January 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
↑ "No Way Out (1987) – IMDb". IMDb .

Sources

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[1] Connor, J E (2001). London's Disused Underground Stations (2nd ed.). Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. ISBN 978-1854142504.

[2] 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."

[3] "Poirot Locations – Wasp's Nest". Tvlocations.net. Retrieved 26 February 2020.

[4] "London Underground – Uncharted 3 Wiki Guide – IGN". Uk.ign.com. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2020.

[5] Taylor, Dave (January 2010). "Subway Art". London Transport Museum Friends News (100): 7.

[6] "Fantasy Map: London Underground Map from "The Escapist"". Transit Maps. 5 November 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2017.

[7] "Albert Square map". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 26 February 2020.

[Paddington-8] "Paddington film locations". MovieLocations.com. Retrieved 12 January 2018.

[9] Bourne, Dianne (12 March 2018). "First look at Coronation Street's new street". men. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.

[10] "Knowing’ crew lets you in on the secrets of that subway crash," by Patrick Kevin Day (Los Angeles Times; March 26, 2009)

[11] Butler, Bethonie (24 February 2014). "What's up with Hollywood's fake Metro stations?". Washington Post. Retrieved 24 September 2019.

[12] "Why Movies and TV Shows Set in DC Aren't Usually Filmed in DC | Washingtonian (DC)". Washingtonian. 30 January 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2019.

[13] "No Way Out (1987) – IMDb". IMDb .

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