The underground railway that became a secret wartime base

PO1 Tony Holland Lots of those Kind of Places throughout London and Surrounding Area. My Last Officer in Eastcote Looked Like an Empty Storage Rm for the Natural History Museum Until You Opened the Door and the End of the Room.

This hidden tunnel was home to a rare underground railway – which later served as both a World War Two bomb shelter and as a secret transmission centre for the BBC. What started as quaint transport built for a Victorian spa turned into something much more grim.

Over the last 12 years, a group of volunteers has been working to change that. It’s unlikely they’ll ever return the railway to running order. But by restoring parts of the tunnel and opening it for visitors, they are hoping, at least, to shed light (quite literally) on this part of Britain’s history. And not just on the engineering feats of the Victorian era. “The wartime story is as important as the railroad story,” says Maggie Shapland of the Clifton Rocks Railway Trust, the volunteer group restoring the tunnel.
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