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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. The station was opened by the Central London Railway in 1900.
London Transport Museum runs guided tours of several disused stations including Aldwych and Down Street through its "Hidden London" programme. The tours look at the history of the network and feature historical details drawn from the museum's own archives and collections. [2]
The station opened as part of the Central London Railway (CLR) on 30 July 1900. [9] From that date until 24 September 1933, [9] the next station eastbound on the Central line was the now-defunct British Museum; the next stop in that direction is now Holborn.
The new platforms came into use on 25 September 1933 replacing those of British Museum, which had closed the day before. As part of the modernisation the station was renamed Holborn (Kingsway) on 22 May 1933, but the suffix gradually dropped out of use and no longer appears on station signage or tube maps. It was displayed on the platform ...
Tour carriages on the Mail Rail at the Postal Museum. In October 2013, the British Postal Museum & Archive announced that it intended opening part of the network to the public. [19] [20] After approval was granted by Islington Council, work on the new museum and the railway began in 2014. [21] Special tourist trains were installed in late 2016.
The British Museum houses the biggest collection of Chinese relics anywhere in the West – at least 23,000 objects – ranging from paintings that date back to the Tang dynasty (618 to 907 AD) to ...
The British Museum has extended its partnership with oil giant BP by another decade after striking a £50 million deal to help fund its renovations plans.
Although the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines station at Paddington is on the other side of the main line station to the Bakerloo, Circle and District lines station, it is shown as a single station on the current Tube map, but still counted as two in the official station count. It has been shown as two separate stations at different times in ...