Brompton Road Tube Station is an abandoned and disused station on the Piccadilly Line, it was opened in 1906 until it was closed in 1934. It is between Knightsbridge Tube Station and South Kensington Tube Station.
During WW2, it was used as a command centre for the 26th (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade. The Ministry Defence sold it to a Ukrainian, Dymtro Firtash in 2014, converting it into residential home usage.
The London Transport Museum does run regular programmes on Zoom, hosting virtual tours of Brompton Road. It is not available for real-life exploration as it has been sold, but they do show what it looks like today.
History[]
Brompton Road Tube Station was originally opened and served by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. It had little passenger usage and by October 1909, some services passed the station like a request stop.
The station closed in 1926, on the 4th of May. This was due to the General Strike caused by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress in an unsuccessful attempt to force the British Government to prevent wage reductions. It was not opened until the 4th of October, 1926 when services only stop at this station at weekdays only (Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri). Sunday Services were back into service on the 2nd of January, 1927. It still had low passenger usage, following by that, the lifts were removed and relocated, and the ticket office was closed.
When the adjacent station, Knightsbridge was planned to be rebuilt with a modern feeling, and with escalators replacing the old lifts, it had a new southern entrance that was built closer to Brompton Road Tube Station. reducing the catchment area, but when the entrance was officially built on the 30th of July, 1934, Brompton Road closed.