Journeyman
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Underground History was put together by a friend of mine, and it's been a real labour of love. I'm an ex-LU employee and I assisted him with getting into a number of the sites he's covered. I did it all through official channels and the LU press office cleared everything, but sometime around 2003 LU started getting very nervous about people knowing too much about abandoned stations and where they were, what they were used for etc., and I was prevented from helping him gain access to any more, or going in any myself unless for duty purposes. There was a lot of talk on anarchist/urbex websites around that time about trying to break into disused sites, which obviously made LU extremely worried about security - they wanted Underground History taken offline completely, but eventually agreed to let it remain online, having realised that all the information on it was available elsewhere anyway. They did request removal of some info, though.
However, LU are still sensitive about too much info on these sites being out there, which is why more isn't in the public domain. If anyone publishes more than they're happy with, they'll get contacted and asked to remove it.
However, LU are still sensitive about too much info on these sites being out there, which is why more isn't in the public domain. If anyone publishes more than they're happy with, they'll get contacted and asked to remove it.