In Popular Culture
- The Daily Mail cartoon character Flook once stole a tram, having found a 'secret spur' leading onto the Central Line, and was chased by a tube train.
- The remaining northern part of the subway is sometimes used in films, for example as itself in the Stephen Poliakoff film Hidden City, the secret entrance to the base in the film version of The Avengers and a railway tunnel in the film Bhowani Junction. It also appeared in The Escapist.
- The climax of the episode "The Blind Banker" of the 2010 BBC TV series Sherlock was set in the tunnel. Although the events of this sequence were not filmed there, once Sherlock has saved John and Sarah we see them with tbe police and Inspector Dimmock at the Northern Entrance.
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