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St James station is notable for the abandoned tunnels connected to the station. The Australian Railway Historical Society , with the approval of the State Rail Authority , has given tours of the tunnels, but many people have visited the tunnels by entering along the subway tracks.
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.
St James, along with Museum station were the first underground railway stations operating in Australia. St James station is strongly associated with the railway/transportation planning of prominent early 20th century engineer Dr J. J. C. Bradfield. Unused tunnels at both ends of St James station were blocked off with concrete walls to form bomb ...
The Kingsway Exchange Tunnels, some 40 meters below Chancery Lane tube station in High Holborn, were built in the 1940s to shelter Londoners from the Blitz bombing campaign during World War II.
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In 1956, the dead ends at St. James and Wynyard were joined and the "missing link", Circular Quay – was opened. Central and Circular Quay stations are above-ground (Circular Quay is elevated, directly underneath the Cahill Expressway), while the remainder are underground. Several unused railway tunnels also exist.
A tunnel is said to run from King's College Chapel to Granchester Manor, Cambridge, passing under the river Cam. [15] A tunnel is said to run from Newbury Town Hall to St Nicolas Church. This belief may have started because there are east-west flowing brick Victorian service tunnels running from roughly the Newbury arcade towards this church ...