Holborn

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Holborn was actually a very new interchange at the time of Lobo, the Central Line platforms having opened on 25th September 1933. Before then it was purely a station on the Piccadilly Line, with Central Line trains stopping at British Museum, 200 metres or so further west and no link between the two other than a walk through the streets.

Given this, one might expect Holborn to be shown as an interchange between Central Line and Piccadilly Line stations. But, in fact, one of the three "from" stations is Aldwych, which was - nominally at least - on the Piccadilly Line. The answer to this apparent conundrum is that, for all practical purposes, Aldwych was at the end of an isolated branch and it was necessary to change at Holborn to reach anywhere else on the Piccadilly Line.


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