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 London Tube Stations Guide Asia Travel Europe
Kentish Town lies between Highgate to the North, Camden Town to the South, Holloway to the East, and Hampstead to the West.
Victoria Station is one of the main stations for the Sussex and the South Coast.
Kentish town is populated by a large number of immigrant families from Greek Cyprus and Ireland.
asiatravel.com /uk/atlondon/tubestations.html   (4403 words)

  
 The-London-Tube.org.uk
There was tale of a man alighting at South Kentish Town not realizing it had closed, and spent a day or so trapped in the abandoned station before he was spotted and picked up by a driver.
South Kentish Town closed during a strike at Lot's Road power station in 1924 and never reopened.
Another station which never even opened on the line was 'North End', or as it is better know, 'Bull and Bush', at which some work was done at Platform Level before the station was abandoned.
www.geocities.com /the_london_tube/northern.htm   (439 words)

  
 Camden Town - TheBestLinks.com - London Underground, London, England, Pub, ...
In line with this trend London Underground is seeking to replace the historic Camden Town tube station with a modern building which would include a sizable office-retail complex.
The Camden Palace is a major dance venue located at the south end of Camden Town High Street.
Camden Town is a place in the London Borough of Camden in London, England.
www.thebestlinks.com /Camden_Town.html   (442 words)

  
 The Underground at War
Built beneath the existing LNER surface rail station of the same name, "Highgate" was unfinished at the start of WW2, and was used as a public ARS during the Blitz, before being opened in an incomplete state 19/09/41 (on the same day the existing Tube "Highgate" Tube station was renamed "Archway").
The distinctive surface building survives as commercial premises at the corner of Castle Road and Kentish Town Road.
Early in 1940 the station was leased to Stepney Borough Council to use as a public ARS, with the usual walls being constructed along the track-side of the platforms to screen against passing trains, and a false concrete ceiling installed to guard against falling masonry.
www.625.org.uk /tuawtemp/tuaw.htm   (8088 words)

  
 LondonTown.com Hawley Road Guide Hawley Road London, NW1, England, UK London Streets by Street London hotel and vacation experts
Kentish Town tube, Kentish Town Road, (15 mins to the North East)
Just a couple of minutes from Camden Town tube station this harmonic haven is a convenient stop-off when faced with any dissonant difficulties.
The nearest underground station to Hawley Road is 'Camden Town ' which is about 8 minutes to the South.
www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/hawley_road_ec7.html   (536 words)

  
 CULG - Northern Line
The tube was 3.1m (10'2") in diameter in the northern section, and 3.2m (10'6") in the straighter southern section, to allow for the extra sway of the faster trains; some later sections were 3.51m (11'6") in diameter to provide better ventilation.
Camden Town is essentially a V-shaped station, one arm for the Edgware branch and one for the Barnet branch.
The two tube mouths are then on each side of this line; the tubes connect to the outer faces, and the depot lines to the inner faces, of the two island platforms at East Finchley.
www.davros.org /rail/culg/northern.html   (5224 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Camden Town Station, London
Sitting proudly at the bifurcation of Camden High Street and Kentish Town Road, Camden Town station first opened on 22 June, 1907
Camden Town is, perhaps, the oddest station on the London Underground network, both for its multi-directional travel possibilities (on no less than four different branches of the same line) and for its unique clientele.
On his video The Definite Article, the popular and absurdist comedian Eddie Izzard tells the story of when he was done for fare-dodging at Camden Town station as a teenager, and ended up being pulled in different directions by four policemen for five minutes, which somehow went down on the charge sheet as 'resisting arrest'.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1067104   (1519 words)

  
 10. Closed Underground Stations
South Kentish Town : Between Kentish Town and Camden Town on the Northern Line.
The station was relocated in March 1941 to improve the interchange with the tube lines (at that time the Northern and Piccadilly).
South Harrow : On the Piccadilly Line, slightly to the south of the modern station.
www.faqs.org /faqs/uk/transport-london/section-10.html   (504 words)

  
 Transport Plans for the London Area - Central or Londonwide
At the same time it avoids adding to the already overcrowded Brixton Road outside the tube station: transfer from bus to tube at Brixton is already one of the heaviest in London and the situation is made worse by the narrow pavement on the northbound side and the impossibility of building a subway.
South of the park the line runs on a new road being constructed by the council as part of the £250m regeneration of Peckham: this road is another Addiscombe Road clone.
The bus station, rather than the railway station, is the preferred terminus because bus arrivals in Peckham outnumber rail by 20:1 and transfer from East-West bus to CRT is seen as important traffic.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/7069/tpftla_c.html   (12829 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)

  
 London My Thamesmead
If you are a londoner born and raised and particularly a sarf londoner (south londoner) then you are very proud of places like Woolwich (Boy George), Charlton (football!) Greenwich (posh people), Peckham (Delboy and Rodney), Bermondsey (Jade!).
You have to travel for that./ I was out Sat night in Central london which meant 15 mins to Station, the 25 mins to centre of London.
West Thamesmead is a new place to live so lots of fab riverside developments but yeah you have to travel into town (what real Londoners call central london) for tourist stuff like oxford street and posh shops.
www.movethat.com /London/My/Thamesmead   (2745 words)

  
 London Bloggers
Stations: Chorleywood, Kentish Town, King\'s Cross St. Pancras
Stations: Caledonian Road, Camden Road, Camden Town, Holloway Road, Kentish Town
Stations: Caledonian Road, Camden Road, Camden Town, Kentish Town, White City
londonbloggers.iamcal.com /station.php?id=9   (352 words)

  
 South Kentish Town - The Open Guide to London
Disused tube station on the Northern Line, halfway between Kentish Town and Camden Town on the High Barnet branch.
The original station entrance is still on Kentish Town Road and is now a Cash Converters.
South Kentish Town - The Open Guide to London
london.openguides.org /index.cgi?South_Kentish_Town   (55 words)

  
 Expressions
The nearest tube station is Kentish Town on the Northern line.
If you are travelling from south, then follow the signs for Kentish town.
The nearest overground train stations are Kentish Town and Gospel Oak.
www.ceroclondon.com /expressions.htm   (197 words)

  
 Geofftech - Tube - Facts & Figures
The Prodigy's "Firestarter" video was recorded in the defunct Aldwych station in 1996, two years after it closed.
The 'King of Woolworths' apparantly have three songs - Bakerloo, Kentish Town and Theydon.
There was also a stageshow performed by a duo known as 'Project Adorno' who wrote and performed 26 completely original songs all based on Underground stations that they visited.
www.geofftech.co.uk /tube/tunes.htm   (475 words)

  
 1999 News from the Camden Cycling Campaign
In the letter's pages is an interesting suggestion that the former 'South Kentish Town' tube station in Kentish Town Road (next to the Castle Road junction) could be reopened to reduce pressure on Camden tube
Shopkeepers under the auspices of the Kentish Town Business Association are claiming that parking controls could kill off businesses in Kentish Town, with one shop owner stating that he has lost up to £200 per day since the measures were introduced a week ago.
For example only 22 tube stations are wheel chair accessible, and London Underground expects it will take around 15-20 years for this number to increase to 70 stations.
www.greengas.u-net.com /hotnews99.htm   (15358 words)

  
 Realtime travel news - Transport for London
NORTHERN LINE: Minor delays are occurring due to a signal failure at Camden Town Southbound.
For details of disruptions to station facilities, including lifts and escalators, click on the Tube line links above.
Customers who wish to carry on their journey beyond Marble Arch should change at Oxford Circus or Bond Street for other tube lines.
www.tfl.gov.uk /tube/travelinfo/realtime   (225 words)

  
 Welcome to Henry Bertrand Silks
134 goes from North Finchley, Muswell Hill, Highgate, Archway, Tufnell Park, KENTISH TOWN and then to Camden Town, Warren St, Euston Square and Tottenham Court Road.
Kentish Town West is on the North London Line, which connects to all the key National Rail Lines through stations such as West Hampstead, Willesden Junction and Stratford
Kentish Town (Northern Line and Thameslink) Kentish Town Thameslink, which is part of the underground station offers direct links to the following: Bedford, Blackfriars, Brighton, East Croydon, Elephant & Castle, Farringdon, Gatwick Airport, Kings Cross Thameslink, Luton, Luton Airport, Mill Hill Broadway, St. Albans, Sutton and Wimbledon
www.henrybertrand.co.uk /fashion/showroom.htm   (402 words)

  
 Station
station Queensbury tube station South Kenton tube station Nearest railway stations: Kenton railway station South Kenton railway station Kenton Kenton is a place in London, England in the London Borough of Harrow.
Nearest places: Vauxhall Walworth Newington Stockwell Camberwell Nearest tube stations: Kennington tube station Oval tube station Kennington Kennington is a place in the Lo 3.55pm Girl attacked at railway station
stations: Kensal Green railway station Kensal Rise railway station Kensal Green Kensal Green is a place in London, England in the London Borough of Brent.
bonose.com /Station-96.html   (579 words)

  
 List of London Underground-related fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tobias Hill: Underground (1999)- involving disused South Kentish Town tube station
The setting of EastEnders features the fictitious Walford East tube station
Die Another Day (2002) - fictional station Vauxhall Cross
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_London_Underground-related_fiction   (213 words)

  
 New Statesman: Evening Standard headlines leave people up north cold—and confused - NorthSide
I used to write a column about the Underground for the paper, and if you mentioned that the Cash Converter on Kentish Town Road used actually to be South Kentish Town Tube station, about which John Betjeman wrote a short story, you'd be guaranteed a healthy postbag.
A few weeks ago, I found myself on a Tube train opposite a man who was reading the Connaught Telegraph (headline: "Calls for immediate closure of sludge plant"), and for some reason this made me feel very good.
In practice, however, real provincial paper headlines of this kind are just as heartening as they are funny: proof that there's life outside London and Ulrika Jonsson's thighs.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4612_131/ai_95679411   (534 words)

  
 Thameslink - Station information - Kentish Town
Kentish Town Thameslink station is connected to London Underground (Northern Line) via a footbridge across the platform.
Kentish Town Thameslink station is connected to the Northern Line via a footbridge across the platform.
to thousands of great destinations throughout South East England.
www.thameslink.co.uk /display_station.php?s=15   (176 words)

  
 Highgate
The Boundary Commission report of 2003 recommended separating the Camden part of Highgate from the remainder of its present constituency and joining it with Kentish Town and Holborn to the south.
Lynne Featherstone is the Liberal Democrat MP for the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency, which covers the northern half of Highgate Village.
It is divided between three London boroughs: Haringey to the north, Camden to the south and west, and Islington to the south and east.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Highgate.htm   (384 words)

  
 The tube at our feet.
One was the proposed Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway with its branch to the Midland railway at Kentish Town.
In 1902, Yerkes obtained powers to extend the branch to connect with the GNR near Highgate although the route north of Archway was not proceeded with.
In 1883 plans for a line from Borough to King William Street were revived and the City and South London Railway opened from Stockwell to KWS in 1890.
www.muswell-hill.com /muswell/history/tubefeet.html   (348 words)

  
 NZ to UK 2005 : Europe Forum - Travellerspoint
Get off at Kentish Town tube station and follow the 3 million or so other Aussie, Kiwi and South Africans that go there.
Wait till january move hours a way to a small south island town (im from the largest city in the country..also a lot warmer in the north island) study a year of journalism..
There are free newspapers available at some tube stations specifically for antipodeans living in London.
www.travellerspoint.com /forum.cfm?thread=8984   (1086 words)

  
 Henry Bertrand - Theatrical - Showrooms
Our Fashion showroom has just moved to a new funky base just 5 minutes from Kentish Town Tube Station and our Interiors showroom is located in the Chelsea Harbour Design Centre overlooking the river Thames and just minutes from the famous Kings Road.
46 come from Warwick Avenue through Maida Vale, St John's Wood, Swiss Cottage, Hampstead, Hampstead Heath, past KENTISH TOWN WEST along KENTISH TOWN ROAD and from there to St Pancras, King's Cross, Chancery Lane, Holborn Circus before finishing in Farringdon St For detailed underground and bus maps and information click here
Our new funky showroom will open in Kentish Town on the 4th February Our showrooms are well-linked to the London underground and mainline train services.
www.henrybertrand.co.uk /theatre/showrooms.htm   (652 words)

  
 SOCIETY SOCIAL & MODELLING EVENT
A new addition to the layout, we were told, was a ‘tubestation, where 1959 Tube Stock trains were seen arriving and departing.
Features are loosely copied from Sudbury Town, Edgware Road and Farringdon stations and the heavy traffic of City Road itself is seen at the right hand end of the layout.
The 1962 Tube Stock pilot units (which have been used to pilot the new Jubilee and Northern Line stocks) were represented by a four-car ‘aluminium’ unit, complete with ‘graffiti’, and the four-car unit in olive green livery (the ‘green goddess’) of which only one DM now remains.
www.lurs.org.uk /un/Modelling_Evt.html   (1024 words)

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