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	Embankment tube station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Embankment tube station is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster.
		Embankment station was opened in 1870 on the Metropolitan District Railway (now the District and Circle lines) as Charing Cross.
		This station serves the Thames Embankment, Trafalgar Square, Strand and Charing Cross.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Embankment_tube_station

	Charing Cross tube station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On the Northern Line it is between Embankment and Leicester Square stations on the Charing Cross branch, and on the Bakerloo Line it is between Embankment and Piccadilly Circus stations.
		For all the time Charing Cross was known as "Charing Cross (Strand)", Embankment had used the name "Charing Cross (Embankment)".
		One of the entrances to Charing Cross tube station from Trafalgar Square.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charing_Cross_tube_station

	Westminster tube station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Westminster tube station on the London Underground serves the Circle, District and Jubilee lines.
		During the station's redevelopment, a vast 39m (127ft) deep void was excavated underneath the old station to house the escalators, lifts and stairs to the deep-level Jubilee Line platforms.
		The station was by far the most complex in terms of engineering of any of those on the Jubilee line and it was the last to open, just before Christmas 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westminster_tube_station

	Victoria Embankment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Victoria Embankment (part of the A3211) starts at Westminster Bridge, just north of the Palace of Westminster, then follows the course of the river bank north, past Hungerford Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, and then ends at Blackfriars Bridge.
		London Underground stations along Victoria Embankment are Westminster, Embankment, Charing Cross, Temple and Blackfriars.
		The Victoria Embankment, is part of the Thames Embankment, a road and walkway along the north bank of the River Thames in London.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Victoria_Embankment

	Temple tube station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Temple is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster, on the Victoria Embankment.
		It is the nearest tube station for King's College London and the London School of Economics.
		The name comes from the Knights Templar, via Inner Temple and Middle Temple, which are situated nearby.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Temple_tube_station

	Waterloo station
		The station became increasingly ramshackle and cluttered as the 19th century went on, until the decision was finally taken to tear the whole thing down and begin again.
		Construction began on the new station in 1900 and continued until 1922, with the new station boasting 21 platforms and a concourse nearly 800 feet (244 m) long.
		The station was widely praised for its architecture, and won a variety of awards on its opening in 1994.
	www.infothis.com /find/Waterloo_station

	london_underground.html
		The worst recent incident was a fire at King's Cross station on November 18, 1987, caused by a smouldering cigarette stub falling onto a wooden-tread escalator panel.
		The Tube is owned by London Transport (LT), a government agency which is part of Transport for London (TfL), who also schedule and let contracts for the famous red double-decker buses.
		The closed Down Street station was used by Winston Churchill until the Cabinet War Rooms were built, after which it was used by the Emergency Railway Committee.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/london_underground.html

	Embankment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Thames Embankment in London, England, running along the north side of the River Thames.
		The Victoria Embankment contained within the Thames Embankment.
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Embankment

	Guardian Unlimited Arts features Heavens below
		The new-look St Pancras station, scheduled to open in 2007, is dependent for its success on PFI deals, but promises to be a wonder (although its future magic will be due as much to the wizardry of its Victorian architects, engineers and craftsmen as to their 21st-century successors).
		Their tour was conducted by the station manager and, as they climbed the escalator from the lower concourse, the manager pointed to the blue glass wall MacCormac had designed with the artist Alex Beleschenko.
		It is a lovely thing, a happy surprise as the jaded tube traveller emerges from the fetid heat of an underground train into the regenerative joys of born-again Southwark.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,846848,00.html

	ACTORS' CHURCH St Paul's Covent Garden PARISH
		The Parish of St. Paul's extends from Holborn tube station in the north of the Parish to near embankment tube station in the south west of the Parish.
		In 1631 Inigo Jones was commissioned by the Earl of Bedford to design a square, surrounded by mansions, a chapel and four streets.
	www.actorschurch.org /content/parish/parish.htm

	Sunset: Garden walking along the Thames - London
		The Embankment tube station leaves you at the upper area of the map.
		Backtracking south past the tube station, walk under the Hungerford bridge and cross at the Northumberland Avenue traffic light to the lower Embankment Gardens.
		The Westminster tube station is on the street's northwest corner.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_n2_v186/ai_9344084

	Strand Hotels accommodation hotels in Strand London
		Nearest Tube station - Embankment - 0.05 km.
		Embankment underground station on Circle/ District/ Northern (Charing Cross branch) / Bakerloo line.
		Nearest Tube station - Leicester Square - 0.2 km.
	www.kayukay.co.uk /strandhotels.html

	International Travel News: In search of the ghosts of London - Britain - London's ghost industry - Column
		One of these walks, "The Ghosts of the West End," meets with Graham at the Embankment Tube station.
		The walk participants are usually directed, in the brochure, to meet outside a Tube station.
		The 1956 station sighting of a tall man wearing a gray suit, funny old collar and white gloves so unnerved one of the staff that he put in for, and was immediately given, a transfer.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3648/is_8_24/ai_56534438

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		Exit the station on the river side (ie out to the main road), and turn left along Victoria Embankment.
		The IEE is a red brick and white stone building on the corner of Savoy Place/Savoy Street, just before you cross the road to go under Waterloo Bridge.
		Walk down towards Waterloo Bridge, which is the next bridge down the river.
	www.idtechex.com /healthinfo03.html

	Indymedia UK - The March from Waterloo
		The first part of the bridge crossing was moving freely, however, as we approached the Embankment side we ground to a halt in a huge sea of protestors.
		Eventually we got down the stairways onto Embankment itself and were able to set off down the route of the march.
		Our plan was to cross the Hungerford footbridge to join Embankment at the start of the march, but the police had closed it.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/02/53813.html

	Al-Ahram Weekly Special Stop the war
		Protesters headed for the Embankment tube station -- one of the gathering points where marchers will set off for the Hyde Park rally -- can be spotted easily by their "Stop the War" badges and makeshift signs tucked under their arms.
		This is one of the last trains before the tube station shuts.
		Do not loiter at the station." Crowds flow into the tightly cordoned off roads along their prescribed route up onto the Strand.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/626/sc7.htm

	London Underground Tube Station Maps
		Canada Water: this station is still under construction, but there is a 3D diagram (71k) on the JLE website
		Jubilee Line stations from Green Park to Stratford can be found in a book called "Extending the Jubilee Line".
		Finsbury Park tube platforms and tunnels after 1960s reconstruction for the Victoria Line(29k)
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/7069/stations.html

	Edges Magazine Issue 20: London: The Eccentric Poet
		Joseph sells his poems near the Embankment Tube Station.
		He seemed to be like a Genus Loci for this place, keeping it going, whereas those coming out of the tube station came rushing past like people out of Dante's hell.
		I used to see him trudging up and down Tottenham High Road bent under the weight of a cross.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~edges/online/issue20/p13.htm

	The Crypt: London's Burning by Home
		As Spike and Dru emerged from the station onto the grand Victoria Embankment, cool night air rolled off the water in whispered waves, starlight and the bright moon bathing the expansive river in silver.
		A station manager had caught Drusilla, thoroughly blood-stained, tossing body parts into the tunnel and making little squeaking noises hoping to entice the vampire mice out of their hiding holes for a meal.
		The horrified attendant had been quickly dispatched by Spike who, after a short-lived chase through the tiled corridors, had snapped the man's neck and (much to Dru's amusement) succeeded in pulling the man's head clean off his body with the aid of the downward escalator and a fire axe.
	solo.abac.com /lubakmetyk/others/home/london3.htm

	UK Meets: London
		Go to Embankment tube station, which is moderately easy to get to from all directions (or at least equally difficult), go out of the right-hand exit as you come out of the barriers, cross the road and lean on the railing looking contemplatively into the river.
		We'll start at 2.30 pm on the Embankment, for some lovely views up and down the river.
		I'll borrow a mobile phone and email people who have told me they are coming with the number in case of problems, etc. The next bit we will decide on the day, and partly depends on weather.
	www.ie.lspace.org /fandom/afp/meets/ukie/2002-03-23/announce.html

	How to get to ATL's London office
		Embankment tube station is on the Northern, Bakerloo, Circle and District lines.
		Charing Cross tube station is on the Northern and Bakerloo lines.
		There are a large number of buses which go to Trafalgar Square and/or Charing Cross.
	www.atl.org.uk /atl_en/contacts/offices/london/directions.asp

	icScotland - Protestors demand resignations
		Demonstrators began marching alongside the River Thames from outside Embankment tube station in central London.
		Hundreds of anti-war protesters are demonstrating against human rights abuses in Iraq as well as the occupation of the Middle East nation.
		They called for freedom for Iraq and Palestine as well as demanding an end to the torturing of Iraqi prisoners.
	icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk /news/uk/tm_objectid=14265736&method=full&siteid=50141&headline=protestors-demand-resignations-name_page.html

	Liquid Rock
		I want to be kissed in Embankment tube station.
		I'd love to go to Embankment tube station, coz it's my favourite.
		I'd love to sit in the tube and look at all the people, standing, sitting, reading, sleeping.
	liquid-rock.blogspot.com

	Salons
		Or alternatively Embankment tube station on the District Line and Circle Line, take the exit on the left walk straight up until you reach the Strand turn right and then take the 6th turning on the left.
		Nearest tube station is Covent Garden on the Piccadilly Line, come out of station turn right and walk through Covent Garden Piazza and Southampton Street is on the other side.
		Parking meters are very limited on Southampton Street and streets around Covent Garden.
	homepages.nildram.co.uk /~mas13/salons/covgar/covgar.htm

	Scotsman.com News - UK - Thousands march against Iraq war
		Waving anti-war banners and chanting slogans against "Bomber Bush and Bomber Blair", the demonstrators marched from Embankment tube station in central London to the Houses of Parliament and finally to Hyde Park.
		The demonstration came as details emerged of a tough new UN resolution to be proposed by Britain and America, which would give Iraqi President Saddam Hussein just seven days to agree to disarm.
		UP TO 250,000 people marched in London yesterday in protest against war on Iraq.
	news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=1081532002

	deviantART: switchbladeserenade: Journal
		We gathered at the Embankment tube station and loitered about untill we had everyone there who we thought was going to make it.
		Okay, for all those interested in attending the London dAPensioner meet we will be meeting up at the Embankment tube station at 3 pm on Saturday, the 17th of September.
		3:00pm/15h00: Arrive at Embankment Tube Station [Upper B2 Map] and mass around outside in a group.
	switchbladeserenade.deviantart.com /journal

	walking @ infed.org
		The walks are free, start from close by The Embankment tube station, and last around 2½ hours.
		For a full itinerary go to walking informal education.
		The next scheduled informal education walk in London is to be arranged:
	www.infed.org /features/walking.htm

	Haineswalks.doc
		There's a good weekday lunch upstairs in the Two Chairmen pub on Queen Anne's Gate, a block from St James' Park tube station. The landlord tells me that he gets Members of Parliament in, a fact which may add atmosphere.
		There you can see the glass case display to mark the Jewish children who came in trains from Hitler’s Germany to England, leaving their parents, and you can admire the roof: after the disgrace of the destruction of classic Euston, this was the first triumph of preserving Victorian station Gothic on the grand scale.
		Completely restored, it is a gorgeous miniature palace. The house is open to the public for viewing every Sunday (except during January and August) from 10.30 a.m.
	victorianresearch.org /Haineswalks.doc

	Off-Design Community web Site
		The site is located to the north west of the Golden Jubilee Bridge (Hungerford Bridge) on the Victoria Embankment opposite the Embankment Tube Station.
		The competition is being run on behalf of the owners of the existing Kiosk who are seeking an exciting and innovative design for their new structure which will be worthy of the unique setting and a tourist attraction in its own right.
		The competition is open to registered architects and students of architecture world-wide.
	www.off-design.com /news&events/ne_story.asp?ID=4384&Cat=8

	Wordiness articles/article6.php
		- Public announcement in Embankment tube station (London), 23 May 2002.
		Read what Underground powers that be have to say about the future of busking, at their informative website.
		How best to inculcate, in the masses of people that flow through one of the busiest subway stops in the world, the notion that busking and begging are completely equal, and equally wrong?
	www.wordiness.com /print.php?articles/article6.php

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