The booking hall of Aldwych station is used for filming, too, it’s suitable for creating accurate historical settings.
Several years ago, I found out too late that there had been a screening of American Werewolf in London at one of the ghost stations - I want to say Aldwych. How cool would that have been?
Be on the C Line, take Chancery Lane!
Given that they originally filmed inside that station for that very movie (Aldwych stood in for Tottenham Court Road), it would have been wonderful!
by the way, it was still open at the time of making the film but because it was so often closed, it was and is, the go-to station for Hollywood whenever they want scenes in an Underground Station.
There’s others, too. The opening scene of Sliding Doors comes to mind, filmed on the Waterloo & City line, easy to do given that it’s closed on Sundays.
Yes, I’m enough of a geek that I remember things like that from films I saw years ago. 
The big benefits of Aldwych are that there’s a supply of old signs and advertisments to make the station fit in with various historical settings, and the opportunity to film in the tunnel (as in the Firestarter video, for instance).
For anyone interested in Aldwych and the old layout at Holborn, I recommend reading Geoffrey Household’s 1939 thriller Rogue Male, about an Englishman on the run after being caught trying to shoot an unidentified European dictator (but obviously Hitler). It’s all sort of proto-Frederick-Forsyth, in that Household largely concentrates on the practical details of his hero’s plight.
One of the novel’s big setpieces has him being trailed through the Underground by a team of hostile agents and him trying to throw them off in Holborn and Aldwych. It’s all written in sufficient detail that Household was clearly expecting any Londoner readers to be able to follow the chase exactly as the characters intricately swap platforms, escalators and trains, back and forth between the two stations.
The interesting exercise for the modern reader is trying to do the same given that so much of this part of the system is now closed and unfamiliar.
The book was a bestseller in its day, so old copies are easy to find secondhand; NYRB Classics have also recently brought it back into print.
If it makes you feel any better, I have to say that I’ve always thought your London Underground station names sound extremely cool. I don’t know why “Bank Station” should inspire such a reaction, but maybe because it comes up in the same collection as “Elephant & Castle”, “Marble Arch”, and “Chalk Farm”.
In its short life, the guiding spirits of L.A.'s Metro have failed to soar any higher in poetic evocation than “7th Street Metro Center” and “Universal City”. But my resolve is unflagging. I shall insist that, if the Westside Extension should ever come to fruition and reach the area where I live now, the station near Santa Monica and the 405 be christened Lobster Shrine.
Bank is just awful…awful AWFUL I tell ya.
Well, most of the stations are just named for streets or local landmarks - like Bank, Monument, Marble Arch and so on. Surely it’s LA’s city planners that should get the blame for uninspiring subway station names 
Think of it like chess. Or some other game, I’m crap at chess. It’s a fine sense of achievement the first time you perform an interchange flawlessly or manage to exit to the street in the right place.
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Will achieve that circa 2121 AD.
Well, that’s us Americans for you. Hardheaded and prosy. The people of NYC couldn’t even think up names for most of the streets, so they used numbers. 
In all seriousness, though, most American metro station names are similarly prosaic, from what I’ve seen.
There are a few good names on the Washington Metro, e.g., Crystal City, Foggy Bottom.
Foggy Bottom is a good one.
L.A.'s perhaps the worst of all, because the geography doesn’t lend itself to clearly defined neighborhoods or districts that would be appropriate for naming transit stations. Near me, in the other direction from the Lobster Shrine, is a tiny, former park at Bundy and Santa Monica. It forms a nice little open space between the three streets that define it.
In an older city like New York, or especially London, such a place would have a name like Bundy Square or Bundy Court instead of just “Santa Monica and Bundy”, and that name would denote the immediate neighborhood for a few blocks around, but not here. “Bundy Square” would be the next logical westward stop on a Metro line from Lobster Shrine.
On the subject of names, one of the things that inexplicably annoys me about Bank is the minority of TfL employees who do the announcements about trains to “The Bank”. I realise that historically “The Bank” was indeed a traditional name for the station, but it does always still somehow rub me up the wrong way.
A combination of Aldwych and the disused Jubilee Line platform at Charing Cross was also used for the horror film Creep (deformed cannibal mutilates assorted late night underground visitors).
Is this one of those names that was The Something since time immemorial, and then somebody consciously decided to change it, as with Congo and Ukraine?
I don’t think so, not according to this.
Seriously. I opened this thread thinking it was about ATM machines. London is weird.
No. References to the station as “The Bank” go back a long way - for example, on this 1902 Tube map. But equally here’s a 1914 photo showing the station labelled as simply “Bank Station” outside one of the entrances.
My impression is that the latter usage has always dominated and may even always have been the official name. Though, without being able to pin the memory down and so can’t swear to it, I half-remember having seen “The Bank” used somewhere on an old official sign that’s still in place somewhere on the network.
In case any non-Londoners haven’t twigged - and have particular reason to care - the reason the bank in question can be labelled “The Bank” at all is because it’s The Bank of England itself.