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Originally Posted by paul miller
A friend of mine drives for East Midland Trains (Midland Mainline), and he used to get sneak viewings of the under platform areas. He says that areas had been long forgotten and sealed up only to be like a time warp when rediscovered. Has anyone else heard this?
Paul.
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Yes, I have. There are some quite fascinating undercrofts below many stations. I recently got a chance to have a poke around underneath Brighton's platforms. In one of the arches there are stored the original wooden moulds for the ornate metalwork of the trainshed .
There used to be several pedestrian tunnels which ran quite some way out across the hill side. They were exposed when the foundations were put in for the new housing conurbation, but have now been destroyed. You can see the original steps down into the labyrinth when you stand on some of the platforms.