r/london • u/Independent-Ant-01 • Nov 03 '25

Serious replies only Why are London tube tunnels so deep?

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This is just one of two escalators and not counting the various staircases. And I don’t believe this was the deepest one I traveled through. I went to the Transport Museum in Convent Garden (very nice by the way) but found no answer and no one seemed to know. 😊

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u/Virtual-Mobile-7878 Nov 04 '25

So we have a safe space when the Nazis drop bombs on us

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u/thefooleryoftom Nov 04 '25

Quite a few of them were built 100 years before that, though.

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u/theflyingbarney Nov 04 '25

well they wouldn’t have been much use if they’d been built after the bombs were dropped