Ludgate Circus tube station

Ludgate Circus was a planned London Underground station that would have formed part of "phase 2" of the Fleet line (now called the Jubilee line) had it been completed. Taking its name from the nearby Ludgate Circus in the City of London financial district, preliminary preparation work was begun in the 1970s, but the plan was later postponed due to lack of funds.^[1]

When the Jubilee line was extended in the late 1990s, it took a different route south of the River Thames and the "phase 1" portion of the line from Green Park to Charing Cross was taken out of passenger use.

A National Rail station was eventually constructed near the Ludgate Circus site, but to serve the north-south Thameslink route, using the Snow Hill tunnel, rather than the originally envisaged east-west line. It used the previously redundant line that used to form the National Rail line terminating at Holborn station. This station was not named Ludgate Circus, but rather St. Paul's Thameslink, later changed to City Thameslink to avoid confusion with the nearby St. Paul's tube station. It was, however, built in such a way as to allow for an underground east-west aligned station to be easily integrated; this can be seen in the wide spaces at the Holborn end of the station, where large doors open on to a corridor intended to lead to escalators to an underground concourse level. It is still known today as the "LUL corridor" by staff.

Future plans

As of 2015, there are no plans or suggestions to build an Underground station at Ludgate Circus. However, there are long-term proposals to build an extension of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) from Bank to Charing Cross, with stations planned at Ludgate Circus and Aldwych.

References

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Aldwych		Jubilee line Phase 2 (Never completed)		Cannon Street

London Underground closed stations, former stations and abandoned plans
Closed stations	Central Blake Hall British Museum North Weald Ongar Wood Lane District Hounslow Town Mark Lane Osterley & Spring Grove Park Royal & Twyford Abbey South Acton St. Mary's (Whitechapel Road) Tower of London East London Shoreditch Jubilee Charing Cross Metropolitan Brill Granborough Road Hammersmith (Grove Road) Lord's Marlborough Road Quainton Road Swiss Cottage Uxbridge Road Verney Junction Waddesdon Waddesdon Road Westcott Winslow Road Wood Lane Wood Siding Wotton Northern City Road South Kentish Town King William Street Piccadilly Aldwych (pictured) Brompton Road Down Street York Road
Open stations no longer served by London Underground	Bakerloo Bushey Carpenders Park Hatch End Headstone Lane Watford High Street Watford Junction District Castle Hill (Ealing Dean) Hanwell Hayes Langley Leigh-on-Sea Shoeburyness Slough Southend Central Southall West Drayton Windsor East London New Cross New Cross Gate Rotherhithe Shadwell Surrey Quays Wapping Metropolitan Aylesbury Great Missenden Stoke Mandeville Wendover Northern Drayton Park Essex Road
Abandoned plans	Bakerloo Extension to Camberwell Central Denham Harefield Road Extension to Richmond Jubilee Aldwych Ludgate Circus Metropolitan Watford Central Northern Alexandra Palace Brockley Hill Bushey Heath Cranley Gardens Crouch End Elstree South Highgate Mill Hill (The Hale) Muswell Hill North End Stroud Green Piccadilly Aldwych branch extension to Waterloo Great Northern & City Lothbury Great Northern & Strand Wood Green Hornsey Harringay Other City & Brixton Railway Edgware Road Tube schemes
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Coordinates: 51°30′51″N 0°06′16″W / 51.51417°N 0.10444°W / 51.51417; -0.10444