Eerie abandoned Tube station left to rot forever after the lights suddenly went out

The London Underground, home to 272 stations, could have had even more stops if it hadn't abandoned several deemed unworthy of its attention.

At least 40 Underground and Overground stations are no longer fit for travel - the more noticeable ones like The Strand now serve as spooky attractions for offbeat tourists. However, one North London station was considered so superfluous that, after a power failure, the authorities didn't even bother to reopen it.

This station was South Kentish Town. From the get-go, it faced hurdles, with its original name, Castle Road, being overruled by a vote, necessitating extra work to replace the tiles with the new name.

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Opened in 1907 to serve the Northern line, South Kentish Town quickly became an underdog on the network. Train drivers often bypassed stopping there due to low passenger numbers and closeness to other stations, reports MyLondon.

The original Kentish Town is just up the road, with Chalk Farm nearby and Kentish Town West and Camden Road Overground stations within easy reach.

Then, in 1924, a strike at Lots Road Power Station in West London caused a power outage. This led to the closure of the station, but once the power was restored, the decision was made to keep it permanently closed.

Today, it houses an escape room called Mission: Breakout, where participants must determine the location of a missing commuter.

There's a Cash Converters nestled directly above it, so you could easily saunter past without even clocking that it was once a Tube station.

In a chilling twist, a commuter once found himself trapped at South Kentish Town. Shortly after the station was closed, a train halted by a signal next to the old station, and a confused passenger disembarked into the pitch black, stepping onto the deserted platforms.

Bear in mind, during this period, trains still utilised manually operated doors, with air-operated mechanical doors akin to those we see today not becoming standard until 1929. This spooky episode was recounted in an article in the London Underground staff magazine, T. O.

T. It was immortalised in a poem titled The Tale of Mr Brackett about a bloke who alighted at an abandoned station because he was too engrossed in his newspaper.

Initially, it was so dark he thought he had lost his sight. But eventually, he struck a match and it lit up a station name board and he realised what had transpired.

He frantically tried to flag down passing trains, but none of them halted and the petrified man had to remain on the platform not just for a night but for an entire week, only being discovered after he ripped some posters off the wall and set fire to them with his very last match.