Opened in 1868 as St. John’s Wood Road, Lord’s is sitated on the Metropolitan & St. John’s Wood Railway (Now, Metropolitan Line). The station was renamed St Johns Wood on the 1st April, 1925 and then Lords on the 11 June, 1939, just five months before the station closed as a result of services transferring to the new deep-level tunnels between Finchley Road and Baker Street.

Lord’s to me, was the first time i became truley aware of the third rail. The all powerful giver of transportation and the taker of life. On a previous visit during the 2008 demolision of the London Underground, a chance encounter with a TFL track unit meant a hasty retreat resulting in my foot clipping the third not once, not twice but three times.

Now used as access for track workers, Little remains of Lord’s bar a small section of platform and its associated emergency escape. If you thought Kings Cross was pushing it in terms of what actually classes as an ”underground” station, then lord’s takes the cake, sitting just ten meters from the tunnels portal, with the sections inside less then eight meters below the surface.