London's Hidden Train Stations

0:00On April 19, London's train that worked hide some wild secrets, like Battersea Park station southeast of the park. It's mainly southern railway turf, but three times a day on weekdays, overground trains from the Highbury and Islington to Clapham Junction line stop. There, catch one in the morning and two in the evening, heading north through Canada, water and shortage. Those overground maps inside the trains, they skip Battersea Park entirely, like it doesn't exist between Wandsworth Road and Clapham Junction. You got a dig deep on the transport for London website to find any mention. No Saturday service either, so plan your timing or you might miss the go stop. Shift to Kensington, Olympia and West London, zone two on the overground and district line. Back in World War Two, it got a top secret upgrade. Bomb mines close others, but this spot stayed open for VIPs, right near Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters as he prepped for D-Day in 19. Eisenhower used it to zip to Wales, and later a shuttle post office savings bank staff

1:04under the National Secrets Act. The public didn't know until 1958. It was Kensington before, renamed Olympia in 1946, dodging zone one fares today. These map missing marvels show how London's transport stays full of surprises, keeping riders on their toes even after centuries of tracks and tunnels.