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	London Bridge station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		London Bridge station is a National Rail and London Underground station in the London Borough of Southwark, which occupies a large area on two levels, immediately south-east of London Bridge and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) east of Charing Cross.
		London Bridge is the oldest railway station in London and was opened in 1836.
		Originally trains had run to a terminus at King William Street bypassing London Bridge, but the construction of a new station at Bank to provide greater capacity and to allow northward extension of the line required a new tunnel alignment and provided the opportunity for a station to be constructed at London Bridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Bridge_railway_station

	Pool of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term was later used more generally to refer to the stretch of the river in between London Bridge and Rotherhithe, which constituted the furthest reach that could be reached by a tall-masted vessel.
		London's Docklands had their origins in the lack of capacity in the Pool of London, which prompted landowners to build enclosed docks with better security and facilities than the Pool's wharves.
		It was of vital importance to London for centuries - as early as the 7th century the Venerable Bede wrote that the Pool was the reason for London's existence - but reached its peak in the 18th and 19th centuries.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Pool_of_London

	Cambridge Heath railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cambridge Heath railway station is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in east London.
		The typical off-peak service from the station is 2tph (trains per hour) to London Liverpool Street and 2tph to Enfield Town.
		The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by one, on the West Anglia route, and it is in Travelcard Zone 2.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cambridge_Heath_railway_station

	London Bridge Station -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		railway station in the Bermondsey district of Southwark, London.
		It lies southeast of London Bridge and northeast of Guy's Hospital, and it is adjacent to the tourist attraction called the London Dungeon.
		It is located east of Newington, southeast of London Bridge, and west of Rotherhithe.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9094009?tocId=9094009

	London railway stations
		London Bridge is the oldest station in London: it was firstopened in 1836.
		Euston Station was built in 1838 for the London and Birmingham Railway.
		It's linked withLondon Bridge Station, which lies on the other side of the river.
	www.2747.com /2747/world/station/london.htm

	wikien.info: Main_Page
		On the south side of the bridge is Southwark Cathedral and the London Bridge rail station.
		London Bridge is a bridge over the River Thames, between the City of London and Southwark.
		The first bridge across the Thames in the London area was built by the Romans on the present site sinceAD 46 and was made of wood.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=London_Bridge

	London Bridge Station, London SE1: tourist information from TourUK
		London Bridge is the capital's oldest railway terminus.
		London Bridge Station is symbolic of the City of London and for many years was its chief entrance from the south-east.
		After the line was extended to Greenwich a new station was opened at the foot of London Bridge on the South bank of the Thames.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_stations/londonbridge_station1.htm

	South Bermondsey railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Bermondsey railway station lies on the "inner" South London Line, between London Bridge and Queens Road Peckham.
		The station was opened on 13 August 1866; the original station was slightly nearer South Bermodsey Junction with the "outer" South London Line.
		It is also served by trains from London Bridge to West Croydon via Dulwich and Crystal Palace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Bermondsey_railway_station

	JLE Contract 104: all change at London Bridge
		London Bridge Station main ticket hall was in progress, with the ticket hall at Borough High Street further behind in the programme of works.
		Before the Heathrow disaster, the London Clay around the Northern Line step plate junction north of the station and its extension in the 1920s had been investigated because of the small amount of cover there existed at this point.
		A new station layout was designed to allay HSE concerns, its principal concept being a reduction in the number of parallel tunnels, a solution proposed by the contractor and jointly developed by the two teams.
	dr-sauer.com.cnchost.com /news/tt1196.htm

	Dickens' London Page
		Perhaps the biggest impact on the growth of London was the coming of the railroad in the 1830s which displaced thousands and accelerated the expansion of the city.
		The quaint coaching inns of Pickwick Papers gave way, in later novels, to reports of railway travel, particularly in Dombey and Son (serialized Oct 1846 to April 1848) where the intrusion of the railroad, and its effects on the city, are described in some detail.
		His faith in the railways was severely shaken when he was involved in a serious accident at Staplehurst in 1865.
	www.fidnet.com /~dap1955/dickens/dickens_london.html

	Charing Cross railway station
		Charing Cross station is a central London railway terminus which is unusual in that its train services directly connect to two other railway termini; Waterloo and London Bridge.
		The station takes its name from the Charing Cross district of London, which itself is named after the twelfth Eleanor Cross, which stands in front of the station.
		Services from the station run to Kent, Hastings and south east London.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Charing-Cross-railway-station.htm

	London - Wikitravel
		Bridging the River Thames near the Tower of London, Tower Bridge is one of the icons of the central London landscape.
		This paramount status for London was confirmed by the Norman, William the Conqueror, who built the Tower of London after the Conquest in 1066 and was crowned King of England in nearby Westminster.
		London is easily the largest city in the country, eight times larger than England's 'second' city, Birmingham, and dominates the economic, political and social life of the United Kingdom (much to the annoyance of people in "the provinces" - i.e.
	wikitravel.org /en/London

	Archiprix International 2003: London Bridge
		I chose to create a civic focus by the realignment of the road to the north of the station creating an area of public space for the user to admire the Cathedral and to create a clear entrance the main London Bridge Station Railway Terminus.
		The brief set out that 6 study areas were to be undertaken for the London Bridge Station Area which were: 1) An Area Character Analysis — This study was to make a coherent and practical orientated analysis of the character of the area.
		Historically the most well known feature of the area was that of London Bridge the oldest river crossing.
	www.archiprix.org /project.php?PKY_PARTICIPANTOID=1868

	BERMONDSEY - LoveToKnow Article on BERMONDSEY
		Tooley Street, leading east from Southwark by London Bridge railway station, is well known in connection with the story of three tailors of Tooley Street, who addressed a petition to parliament opening with the comprehensive expression We, the people of England.
		The name is a corruption of St Olave, or Olaf, the Christian king of Norway, who in 994 attacked London by way of the river, and broke down London Bridge.
		, a south-eastern metropolitan borough of London, England, bounded N. and E. by the Thames, S.E. by Deptford, S.W. by Camberwell, and W. by Soutliwark.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BERMONDSEY.htm

	London Bridge
		A refuge booth, one of several erected on the Bridge pavements after the widening in 1760, is preserved in the quadrangle of Guys Hospital, a few hundreds away in Southwark, having survived the 1831 demolition.
		This London Bridge, the first of stone, and in its day regarded as one of the `modern wonders of the world`, was opened in 1209.
		Peter Roberts writes on the history of London Bridge and the future Museum dedicated to it.
	www.arthurlloyd.co.uk /LondonBridge.htm

	CNN.com - Rush hour power cut hits London - Aug. 28, 2003
		Many Underground stations were closed, and half the traffic lights in the south of the city were dark.
		Thursday's outages appeared to be confined to south London and Kent, a county southeast of the city.
		London Mayor Ken Livingstone estimated that 250,000 people were caught in the London Underground when the outage hit at about 6:15 p.m.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/08/28/london.power

	Ireland Railway Heuston Station - King George Bridge Dublin Images
		When the Great Southern and Western railway terminal opened in 1846 at Heuston, it was known as Kings Bridge station.
		The iron bridge which spans the River Liffey, linking to North Dublin, was built to commemorate the vist of King George IV in 1821, a time when Dublin was the second major city of the British Empire after London.
		Vintage railway posters, Images and prints from the Age of the Train.
	www.irelandposters.com /dublin/heuston_station.html

	LONDON-ACCOMODATION.bizLONDON BUDGET ACCOMMODATIONDiscount hotels reservations
		The Senator Hotel London is a first class hotel strategically located less than 5 minutes walk away from the Heathrow Express Terminal at Paddington mainline train station.
		This tourist-class hotel situated 15 miles from Heathrow International Airport boasts a convenient location, a short walk from Bayswater and Queensway Underground Stations.
		Situated in a leafy arbor, the Senator Hotel London has been converted from a terrace of early Victorian town houses and one of the few remaining privately owned hotels.
	www.london-accomodation.biz

	Thameslink
		A revised schedule of January 2003, subject to plannning issues, suggests work under St Pancras station in 2004, completion of "Phase 1" for increasing the capacity of the northern routes by 2007 or 2008, and full through-running following remodelling of London Bridge station by 2012/.
		West Croydon railway stationWest Croydon was abandoned by Thameslink and instead a new route to Sutton railway stationSutton was opened up over existing track through Mitcham Junction with the line then continuing on a loop up to Wimbledon stationWimbledon and then rejoining itself south of Elephant & Castle stationElephant and Castle/.
		As part of the Thameslink 2000 project, £800 million will be spent expanding the network to 169 stations, spreading northwards to Peterborough, Cambridge and King's Lynn via a new connecting tunnel north of Kings Cross, and south to Guildford, Eastbourne, Ashford, KentAshford and Dartford (town)Dartford.
	www.infothis.com /find/Thameslink

	BettaLondon.com - London Tourist Guide Bankside
		The access offered by London Bridge Station is serving southbound to Gatwick Airport and Sussex, eastbound to Ramsgate and...
		Home to the Mayor of London, the London Assembly and the GLA, who in July 2002 became tenants of this striking rounded glass building on the south bank of the Thames near Tower Bridge.
		The London Dungeon is an exhibits which recalls and take you through events of atrocities from the British and European past.
	www.bettalondon.com /index.php?manufacturers_id=49=Bankside

	A Guide to the London Dungeon
		The venue itself is housed beneath London Bridge railway station, the faint rumbling of the trains also add to the experience.
		Tower Bridge, Tower of London, Globe Theatre and the Tate Modern Gallery are the principal attractions.
		The London Bridge area in general has being rejuvenated in recent years.
	www.londontoolkit.com /whattodo/londondungeon.htm

	Templecombe Junction Railway
		The Templecombe Junction Railway (TJR) was the link line which connected together the separate lines of the London and South Western Railway (LandSWR) and Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (SandDJR) at Templecombe railway station in Somerset.
		The DCR built their own station just to the north of the bridge under Combe Throop Lane and from here the line northwards followed the route later known as the 'lower road'.
		The first railway station at Templecombe was opened in 1860 by the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway (SandYR), when their single-track line from Salisbury to Gillingham was extended westward to Yeovil.
	www.trainweb.org /railwest/railco/sdjr/tjr.html

	uka : Athens Previews
		For the reigning AAA Champion works for up to 40 hours a week, monitoring 50 staff at London Bridge railway station in the capital and overseeing services to Brighton and the rest of the Sussex coast.
		Station manager Philippa Roles (Sale Harriers Manchester) reckons she is on the right tracks to throw the discus further at the Olympic Games than she has ever done before – “because this will be the first time this season I won’t be competing tired.”
	www.ukathletics.net /vsite/vcontent/content/news/0,10869,4854-152113-169329-31838-132359-news-item,00.html

	Louisa Masset
		On Friday October 27th, Louisa had met these two ladies at London Bridge station where she had handed over Manfred, a parcel of clothes given to her by Helen Gentle, and the sum of two pounds which was to cover the boy's education for one year.
		At about the same time that Louisa was supposedly returning to London Bridge, Mary Teahan and her friend, Margaret Biggs, entered the ladies waiting room on platform three of Dalston Junction station.
		On her journey home, after the lesson was over, she saw newspaper headlines referring to the murder of her son and would claim that this was the first she knew of the matter.
	www.murderfile.net /sample.htm

	Health First: Location
		London Bridge railway station is approximately 5 minutes walk from Mary Sheridan House.
		We are based at Mary Sheridan House, close to London Bridge station and Guy's Hospital.
		A set of escalators leads directly from the station forecourt down to the St Thomas Street level.
	www.healthfirst.org.uk /location.htm

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 10 Jul 2002 (pt 13)
		To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the daily capacity of London Bridge railway station was in each of the last three years.
		The average number of national rail passengers passing through or disembarking at London Bridge station on weekdays during the morning peak (0700–1000) in each of the last three years is:
		a road bridge or tunnel between north Greenwich and Silvertown.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo020710/text/20710w13.htm

	Telegraph News
		Surface rail services from major stations including Victoria, London Bridge and Waterloo were also suspended, affecting "tens of thousands of passengers".
		An estimated 250,000 commuters were evacuated from the London Underground last night after a National Grid failure caused a power cut across the south of the capital.
		Transport for London said the power failure, which happened at 6.20pm, stopped 60 per cent of the network.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/29/ntube29.xml

	Battersea Railway Bridge, London : tourist information from TourUK
		The bridge was part of the West London Extension Railway, connecting the main lines radiating to the north, out of Paddington and Euston, with lines running south from Waterloo, Victoria and Clapham Junction.
		Opened in 1863, the five-arched Battersea Railway Bridge carries London's only north-south through-route.
		A major problem with Battersea Railway Bridge is that trains crossing it are restricted to 15 miles per hour.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_bridges/battersearailway_bridge1.htm

	Citikey London - London Bridge Railway Station - Bermondsey
		London Bridge Station is the oldest passenger terminus in London, dating back to 1836.
		Other than repairs to war damage, the station is much as it was in the early part of this century.
		Stansted Express is the fastest way between central London and Stansted Airport.
	www.citikey.com /business/10033750/category/30218/city/London/current/4/page/6/total/12

	How to find the Canterbury campus - University of Kent
		London Luton; Train to London Bridge railway station (50 mins), train from London Bridge to Canterbury West (90 mins).
		London Heathrow; either London Underground to London Victoria railway station (50 mins), train to Canterbury East (85 mins) or London Underground to London Charing Cross railway station or London Waterloo East railway station (50 mins), train to Canterbury West (90 mins).
		London Gatwick; Gatwick Express to London Victoria (30 mins four times each hour), train to Canterbury East (85 mins).
	www.kent.ac.uk /maps/canterbury/find-campus.html

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