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The Northern Line has one abandoned station, the North End Station, between Hampstead and Golders Green. It was begun in 1903, but never completed. The reason for this was that a housing development that was planned for nearby the station never came to be. By the time construction was halted in 1906, the larger diameter station tunnels, low level passageways, and lift shafts had already been excavated and built. During World War II, it was used to store secret archives accessed only by service trains and during the Cold War, it formed part of the city’s civil defence.

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