Video: Inside Brompton Station: the tube station turned WWII command bunker up for sale Nestled in an exclusive corner of central London between Harrods and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Brompton Road station will go on the market next month. Tube trains used the station between 1906 and 1934 before it was removed from the Piccadilly line due to a fall in custom. During the Blitz, the building was taken over by what was then the War Department and used to control anti-aircraft batteries to protect London from air raids. Julian Chafer, an MoD surveyor who has been working on the site, said: "Although I'm not a military historian, I imagine that down here it would been the same sort of thing as you see in wartime films. There would have been maps on the walls, there would have been perhaps an operations table and perhaps a scale model of part of the city, actually physically moving scale models about with the anti-aircraft batteries so people could envisage exactly where they were in the city. The building is expected to command a high price when the opportunity to bid is opened up to buyers in September.