My exploring of London's Underground had come to a halt pretty much. I still had places I wanted to see, but it seemed like they were going to be too difficult to see. One of those was here, Angel station. A disused section of the station sits in a separate building on the next block from the live station. We knew there was apparently a canteen in the building, so assumed it would be in regular use. Kev and I had been a few times to test the building for infiltration routes, but Kev couldn't find any. Roll forward a few years, and Minuteglass reported that he had found a way in. I let GrittyCity know, as we'd been planning a few LU trips, and when all 3 of us had spare time, we met up.

The disused station building sits opposite a popular pub, and just up the street from a busy nightclub, so access wasn't going to be easy. However, without going into details, we managed it, and were soon in the building. Once inside and the door closed, we were immediately faced with lots more doors, most of them locked. We needed to be sure we were alone, and I checked the basement area, finding it lit up but empty. We then headed up to the first floor (2nd floor for Americans). There was a sort of office room, with cupboards of stationary and notepads lying around etc. Then another door that led in here, a generator room. The blue doors on the left were alarmed, so we didn't open them. Looking from the outside of the building later, we couldn't see where they would open on too. On the right between the two grey generator cabinets, one can just see a dark door. This led out to the top of one of the 3 shafts here. We could see a ladder below the platform at the top, but it wasn't possible to access it easily. So we went in search of how to get to it properly.

The other side of the blue shutters and door (above).

This meant a trip via the basement 'canteen' area. This area was rather useful, as there were working toilets, showers, various maps on the walls and timings etc. Even a microwave!

Various colourful manuals hang from a wall. COSHH stands for Control of Substances Hazardous to Health.

Out the back of the canteen there was a dark passage, around the corner was the former entrance to a lift shaft, now plugged up. This is the middle of the 3 former lift shafts at Angel.

One of the other lift shafts, now with a handy set of ladders in. The drop here is around 35m.

From the bottom of this shaft, we walked passed the middle shaft, to the end shaft, and down again. This led to a long utility tunnel. In the tunnel we could hear laughing and chatter from above us. Leading us to believe we were walking below the station platforms. We took a fair amount of risk to get some pictures of live trains passing through, however after judging where we wouldn't be seen with one train, the next train i managed to capture (as below), and that was it! 10minutes later, the tunnel lights flickered on and the traction current was off.

Before the track lights came on, I was able to snap the live platform down the short tunnel from where the tunnel splits into the disused tunnel.

With the tunnel lights on, the snaky tracks were lit up. The trains were headed towards us in this tunnel, frm City Rd. To see the other end of this tunnel from City Rd ghost station, go to GES094.

Turning 180 degrees, this was the view back to the live station, on the right is the disused tunnel. The trains used to run down here, and if you stand on the wide platform at the live Angel station, the disused tunnel would have original opened onto it.

The tunnel would have been on the right here, now where two silver doors are.

The tracks would have run down the left of this picture where the platform is now. You can guess how wide the original platform was!

A big cavernous tunnel, similar to the one where the pics above were taken. The mesh doors lead to the wide southbound platform.

The other side of the mesh doors, where moments earlier a whistling cleaner went into the room to the left to grab his gear. The door at the back is to the platform.

180 degrees from the previous shot, the tunnel leading out to the live tracks and Northbound side of the station. The tunnel on the right is another disused tunnel that was chopped up for the re-directed Northbound tracks.

The disused tunnel from the right on the above pic, plugged up at the end, where the Northbound tracks run on the other side.

All done with this area of the station, it was time to bail. So we returned to a utility tunnel that runs underneath the wide Southbound platform. it went on...

and on...

and on...

until finally it curved round in familiar ringed tunnels to the former lift shafts.

The ladder in the centre leads up from the picture above, in the southern of the 3 left shafts.

The middle lift shaft features a warning on the door, 'Dangerous Structure.'

Curiosity and all that, I popped in for a look. The shaft is sealed at the top, the other side of the sealed door is the 3rd picture on this page.

Approaching the Northern former lift shaft. The ladder leads up to the surface building.

One of the shaft entrances, Minuteglass checking his phone, as bizarrely one can get reception down here.

The eastern side of the lift shafts passageway. A door we didn't try at the end of this passage on the left, likely opens onto the platforms.

Reverse shot of the passageway from the other end. A rare poster on the wall on the right.

Another rare poster just about visible on the wall. This probably dates from the 1980s.

The southern end of the lift shafts.

The passageway on the western side of the lifts, looking in better condition than the other side.

The western side of the Northern of the 3 lift shafts.

Access to the surface, this ladder likely lead to the vent shaft that sits just outside the old station building in the middle of the road.

A long climb later, and we popped out again in the area at the front of the old building. This is the metal covered section.

Through the second door above, and some steps down to the basement. Also an old tiled wall on the left of the stairs.

After all that adventure and lots of scrabbling around in the dust and filth. Our hands were blacker than black. Thankfully the worker area of the basement had tapes, soaps and some dry clean looking towels to make ourselves look respectable again.

Thanks again to Minuteglass