The tunnels


Does anyone know what the tunnels used early in the film were and where they are?
I'm curious as to what there original use was.

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The scenes were filmed at the disused surface level of Highgate station in north London. The tunnels were built in the 1930s as part of the Northern Heights plan to electrify the surface branch and extend it north towards Watford.

I am not sure the tunnels were ever used. The line was not electrified and the surface level platforms closed with the withdrawal of steam in 1954. Highgate station still serves the Northern line Underground.

The surface platforms and buildings, and presumably the tunnels, still exist but apparently the tracks have now been filled in to platform level.

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Thanks Korgis, That's solved that one.

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