How London's Dead Tube Station Became Churchill's Bunker

In 1907, London opened a Tube station on the wealthiest street in Britain. It was too deep, too hidden, and surrounded by people who refused to ride the Underground, so it failed almost immediately and closed in 1932. Then war came, and every flaw that had killed Down Street as a station made it perfect as a secret bunker. This is the story of how a forgotten ghost station became the headquarters that kept Britain's railways running, and the place where Winston Churchill slept on a camp bed while the Blitz burned the city above him.

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