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 BBC - h2g2 - The Ultimate Guide to the London Underground - mark II
I prefer Gloucester Road station, at which all the trains that go to S.Ken stop, is smaller, quieter, nicer, less scary, less confusing on the Picadilly side (although the District/Circle platforms are more confusing but better signposted) and, in my experience, has nicer staff (they even started saying "hello" to me after a while).
They are: Aldwych (closed 1994), Blake Hall (1983), British Museum (1933), Brompton Road (1934), City Road (1922), Down Street (1932), Lords (1939), Marlborough Road (1939), Ongar and North Weald (1994)South Acton (1959), South Kentish Town (1924), St Mary's (1938), Uxbridge Road (1947), White City (1959) and York Road (1932).
Cutty Sark, Greenwich, Deptford Bridge, Elverson Road and Lewisham on the Docklands Light Railway are all on the boundary of Zones 2 and 3.
www.bbc.co.uk /h2g2/guide/A408890   (7524 words)

  
 Underground Ghost Stations and Lines
St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) station was opened in 1884 as part of the District Railway's push eastwards into the East-End.
This station was opened in December 1906 as part of the Northern expansion of the Piccadilly between King's Cross and Caledonian Road.
During the war, the sub-surface accommodation at the station was used by the Railway Executive Committee and by Churchill and the War Cabinet.
www.londonrailways.net /ghost.htm   (1625 words)

  
 London hotels reservation, bed and breakfast, England Hotels and conferences reservations & Accommodation
The closest tube station is South Kensington and by rail Paddington /Victoria.
It is very close to Victoria Underground and Railway stations as well as the coach station and the Gatwick Express Terminal at Victoria.
Four miles from centre of the city and close to the airport and the Forth Road Bridge, this comfortable and well- established hotel is conveniently located for both business and holiday visitors to Scotland.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/frank_osei_bonsu/ukhotel4.htm   (3421 words)

  
 ABANDONED LONDON UNDERGROUND STATIONS
The station had been planned as Castle Road, and the name change must have been late since the platform tiles still show the proposed name, which had been over-painted.
Northward extension of the line was done from a junction near Borough station to avoid a sharp curve to this inadequate terminus, which was on a poor alignment.
In 1938 this station was replaced by a new eastern entrance to Aldgate East platforms, which were resited to enlarge the Aldgate triangle.
www.lurs.org.uk /un/Abandoned.html   (2245 words)

  
 About us
The club meets at Loughton C.I.U. Club, Station Road, Loughton, Essex between 18:30 and 23:00 on Thursday evenings.
It is 5 minutes walk from Loughton tube (Central line) and is fully served by local bus routes and 15 minutes drive from the M11.
We have a regular turnout of between 6 and 15 regular members who play a wide and varied selection of historical tabletop and board games.
www.nsalmon.btinternet.co.uk /LSF/about_us.htm   (195 words)

  
 ASTRAL PIPER -- THE NEW SYD BARRETT APPRECIATION SOCIETY
It is located at number 3 Abbey Road, not far from the St. Johns Wood Tube Station.
Syd's flat is high up in Wetherby Mansions long very impressive building just a few minutes walk from the Earls Court Tube Station.
We then travel to the place that was known as EMI Studios in the 60's on Abbey Road in St Johns Wood, not far from Lords Cricket Ground.
www.sydbarrett.org /thepiperspathpart2.htm   (1215 words)

  
 Monopoly Pub Crawl - London 2001
And, as we jogged back to Whitechapel tube station, he announced the need to stop for sustenance and proceeded to get stuck behind someone in a newagents for whom the apparently simple transaction of purchasing a newspaper and a Mars bar was an intellectual feat of almost intractable difficulty...
Eventually we decided to get a bus back to the tube station, and then get a cab there if one was immediately available, otherwise we'd use the underground, and in the end, that's how it turned out.
A short jaunt and we were at Elephant and Castle tube (right on the New Kent Road).
www.pajb.com /monopoly   (7661 words)

  
 Forum
The suicide pits you see at tube stations were put in during the 1930s because of the high number of suicides.
The tube stocks now used vary from cab to cab, but I wondered what it was like for any one going from the right-hand "deadman" device to the left-hand "TBC" device on the Northern line when the 1972 Tube Stock was introduced.
About the Moorgate Accident, they said on some documentary that sometimes a tube driver can be "hypnotised" by the pattern of the "ribs" of the tube passing by (it's not perfectly smooth)....is this what causes that "state of mind?" Or can the same thing you're talking about happen in subsurface tunnels (e.g.
www.trainweb.org /tubeprune/forum.htm   (11034 words)

  
 europe2
Not far from Euston Square tube station, but another station is probably closer.
Road, approx 2 miles north of the City Centre.
Their mailing address is: The Vegan Society Ltd, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN37 7AA, ENGLAND Tel.
www.faqs.org /ftp/faqs/vegetarian/guide/europe2   (7280 words)

  
 LONDON TRANSPORT
During the conversion Aldwych station was destroyed but Holborn tram station remains intact in an unused portion of the tunnel.
Both stations were rebuilt at the same time and finished in marble and stone with electric lighting.
This tram underpass originally connected a subterranean station at Holborn, and ran the length of Kingsway via a station at Aldwych before rising to the surface under Waterloo Bridge.
www.derelictlondon.com /id7.htm   (1631 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
Exit the square in the direction of the tube station next to the Hippodrome club.
British Museum: Stay on the tube to Holbron and stroll through Bloomsbury, an intellectual neighborhood that is home to the University of London and the British Museum.
Take the Tube: The underground rail service is the quickest way to travel from one part of town to another.
starbulletin.com /2002/07/07/travel/story1.html   (3834 words)

  
 rodcorp: Mapping, transport, tube
They've travelled there by car or bus via the motorways and roads, by train or tube, by plane, and are surprised to find that the terminal has become a terminus, here at the quiet limit of the world.
As tube stations are often underground and aren't 24-hour or accessibility usable, look at adding a piece of street furniture.
My work is to keep the eaters' tubes (which convey the material up to the city, processing and rendering it on the way) and the gastropod (the parts that do the eating) clean and in good working order.
rodcorp.typepad.com /rodcorp/mapping_transport_tube   (11866 words)

  
 Areas & Squares - Sightseeing in London
A wide and straight road, it is at its best when being used for royal ceremonies, when Union Jacks, or the national flags of visiting heads of state are flown from flagpoles, along the length of the road.
King’s Road in Chelsea was originally a private road to take King Charles II from Hampton Court to his Palace in Whitehall.
The road really started to buzz in the swinging sixties when its trendy fashion shops became the main port of call for everybody who wanted to look cool.
www.londonby.com /sightsee/sight1.htm   (2187 words)

  
 Last Minute Flights of Fancy: London
It is about a 10-minute tube ride from Harrods and the shops on Kings Road and Sloane Street, and a 10-minute walk from Hyde Park--less from the museums.
But head south from the South Kensington tube stop, away from Cromwell Road, Queensgate and the throngs of tourists, as I did, and--once past the Rolls-Royce dealership, anyway--you'll land in a virtual departement.
Harrods, a 10-minute tube ride, is the most famous department store in Britain, and Sloane Street shops include the most fashionable: Armani, Prada, Gucci.
www.relationtrips.com /london.htm   (1303 words)

  
 10. Closed Underground Stations
The station was relocated in March 1941 to improve the interchange with the tube lines (at that time the Northern and Piccadilly).
Lord's and Marlborough Road Closed on 19 Nov 1939, with Swiss Cottage closing on 17 Aug 1940.
Preston Road : On the Metropolitan Line slightly east of the modern station.
www.faqs.org /faqs/uk/transport-london/section-10.html   (504 words)

  
 London's Abandoned Tube Stations
There are other stations on London Underground that have been abandoned but due to a lack of substantive remains or photographic evidence available, they are not featured on this website:
It was originally just a means of doing something constructive with a box of old tube photos re-discovered during a clean out.
They and many other books of historical interest are available from the bookshop at the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, which should be the first port of call for anyone wanting further information about London's abandoned stations.
www.pendar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Tube   (318 words)

  
 Daniela and Stephan in London
Our flat is close to the Archway tube station which is in the north of London.
The street going left immediately after Angies of Holloway Road Pub is our Marlborough Road where we live.
Go left for 5 meters, cross the road on the right site and walk down the Holloway Road...
home.datacomm.ch /bakerman/londonFlat/wayToFlat   (173 words)

  
 London Guide from fly cheap online the home of cheap airline tickets and airefares to Europe and Latin America
It's in Marylebone Road and the nearest underground station is Baker Street.
It's situated in County Hall and the nearest underground station is Waterloo or Westminster.
The nearest underground station is Charing Cross and Embankment.
flycheapol.com /London.htm   (3747 words)

  
 NYCDOT - Weekly Traffic Advisory
Beverly Road between Marlborough Road and East 16th Street:
One of two tubes may be closed for capital rehabilitation work with two-way traffic maintained in the open tube 9pm-5am, Sunday nights to Friday mornings.
Additionally the northbound West Fordham Road entrance ramp may be closed 10pm to 6am Sunday night to Friday morning, and 12:01am to 10am Sunday to facilitate NYSDOT construction work until the end of March, 2006.
nyc.gov /html/dot/html/motorist/advisories/weektraf.html   (5767 words)

  
 Usability and user experience events archive - London - Louise Ferguson
The nearest tube station is Tottenham Court Road.
Tube: Mansion House and Bank, rail: Cannon Street and City Thameslink.
Venue: Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London E14
www.louiseferguson.com /eventshistory2003.htm   (5087 words)

  
 Arts Dialogue : Bahá´í Association for the Arts
Crompton Terrace, opposite the Highbury & Islington Tube station.
4 Bellefields Road -a short walk from the station.
The Chisendale Gallery (tube: Bethnal Green, then bus 8) founded in 1986 in a converted factory, some shows are commissioned for the purpose of making ambitious work.
bahai-library.com /bafa/uk.htm   (1659 words)

  
 A Christmas Story- Devotees Arrested for Chanting Hare Krishna : SF Bay Area Indymedia
So we did, all the way to the police station, accompaned by the three blissful police constables, who, grinning from ear to ear, made no objection as the ecstatic sankirtana party passed right into the police station, past the main doors, through the hallway, and into the charging room itself!!!
In the constable's version of the story, the chanting party miraculously grew from the original five members to seven--and later to eight when he described how three devotees "ran off and escaped arrest." According to his description, it seemed that there were many more people on Oxford Street than we had been aware of.
We were accompanied by a new and enthusiastic visitor to the temple, the Reverend Norman Morehouse (second only to the Bishop of Norwich), who came along to observe the court proceedings.
www.indybay.org /news/2005/12/1792466.php   (2376 words)

  
 MASSACHUSETTS DUI RESULTS - MASSACHUSETTS DUI OUI DWI LAWYER
Though she tried to take the breath test 5 times, police mercilessly accused of 'blowing out of the side of the tube.' I had her doctor compose a letter describing her condition and giving his opinion she could not perform such a strenuous test.
S blew a.15 at the station, almost twice the legal limit.
My client's girlfriend had been driving the truck and got out after an argument, leaving it in the middle of the road.
www.waldbaumlaw.com /case_results.html   (2431 words)

  
 Britain Passes & Tours Out of London
Departure: 1pm at 4 Fountain Square, 123-151 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9SH (between Victoria Station and Victoria Coach Station).
Departure: 8:45am at 4 Fountain Square, 123-151 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9SH (between Victoria Station and Victoria Coach Station).
Stonehenge and Avebury Cirlcles: Full of mystery and wonder, these are fascinating monuments are the most important prehistoric monuments in the British Isles.
meleterc.com /britpasses.html   (2032 words)

  
 Low-Latitude Antarctic Gazetteer Database Index
Scott Hall, 1090 Carmack Road, Ohio State University, Columbus OH 43210, USA.
St Albans Anglican Church, 56 Main Road, Claremont, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Main building, Arctowski Station, King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula.
www.antarctic-circle.org /database.htm   (2344 words)

  
 Untitled
Near Lancaster Gate or Marble Arch or Hyde Park Corner tube stations.
it boasts an enviable position midway between Victoria Station and Westminster, with the opportunity to browse and the expensive English merchandise at the same time.
Edgware Road in subway under flyover with Old Marylebone Road
www.thebathroomdiaries.com /england/london.html   (1005 words)

  
 B A K A N E S S !!!
Buses 42/53/78/453 and others also go down Old Kent Rd Fenchurch St Station
www.bakaness.com /mbpc1   (231 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - The Ultimate Guide to the London Underground - mark II
They are: Aldwych (closed 1994), Blake Hall (1983), British Museum (1933), Brompton Road (1934), City Road (1922), Down Street (1932), Lords (1939), Marlborough Road (1939), Ongar and North Weald (1994)South Acton (1959), South Kentish Town (1924), St Mary's (1938), Uxbridge Road (1947), White City (1959) and York Road (1932).
I prefer Gloucester Road station, at which all the trains that go to S.Ken stop, is smaller, quieter, nicer, less scary, less confusing on the Picadilly side (although the District/Circle platforms are more confusing but better signposted) and, in my experience, has nicer staff (they even started saying "hello" to me after a while).
My favourite busker was a guy who used to play in Tottenham Court Road station, lying on the floor near the main entrance with a battered acoustic and a can of Special Brew.
www.bbc.co.uk /h2g2/guide/A408890   (231 words)

  
 offtowork - Venues Directory
Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea SW3 Tube: Sloane Square
Hammersmith Apollo Theatre Fulham Palace Road,W6 Tube: Hammersmith
Flat 5c, 55 Marlborough Hill St John's Wood NW8 Tube: St John's Wood
www.offtowork.co.uk /venues.asp   (231 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - The Ultimate Guide to the London Underground - mark II
They are: Aldwych (closed 1994), Blake Hall (1983), British Museum (1933), Brompton Road (1934), City Road (1922), Down Street (1932), Lords (1939), Marlborough Road (1939), Ongar and North Weald (1994)South Acton (1959), South Kentish Town (1924), St Mary's (1938), Uxbridge Road (1947), White City (1959) and York Road (1932).
This station is characterised by an escalator of average length on which there will always be a gale force wind blowing no matter how calm the weather is elsewhere in the vicinity.
The larger Chorleywood station is used to turn the trains, as is the Chalfont connection, while the regular shuttle train waits in a single siding at Chesham.
www.bbc.co.uk /h2g2/guide/A408890   (7524 words)

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