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The London Underground is a metro system in the United Kingdom that serves Greater London and the home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire. Its first section opened in 1863, [ 1 ] making it the oldest underground metro system in the world – although approximately 55% of the current network is above ground, [ 2 ] as it ...
The nearest London Underground station is Waterloo, although Charing Cross, Embankment, and Westminster are also within easy walking distance. [59] Connection with National Rail services is made at London Waterloo station and London Waterloo East station. London River Services operated by Thames Clippers and City Cruises stop at the London Eye ...
Regent's Park is a London Underground station 175 metres (191 yd) south of Regent's Park.It is on the Bakerloo line between Baker Street and Oxford Circus stations. Its access is on Marylebone Road, within Park Crescent, in Travelcard Zone 1, in which zone it is the second-least used station (least-used is Lambeth North) – it saw 3.5 million entries or exits in 2015.
Camden Town is a London Underground station in Camden Town. [7] It is a major junction for the Northern line, as it is where the Edgware and High Barnet branches merge from the north, and is also where they split to the south into the Bank and Charing Cross branches for the journey through Central London.
Hatton Cross is a combined London Underground station and bus station. It is located on the Heathrow branch of the Piccadilly line . It is in Travelcard Zones 5 and 6 and stands between the Great South West Road ( A30 ) and the Heathrow Airport Southern Perimeter Road.
In J. K. Rowling's first novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) and the eponymous film, Harry goes to the London Zoo for his cousin's birthday. In Dodie Smith's children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956), the protagonist dalmatian dogs live near Regent's Park and are taken there for walks by their human family, the ...
The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.
St James's Park is a London Underground station near St James's Park in the City of Westminster, England. It is served by the Circle and District lines between Victoria and Westminster stations, and is located in Travelcard Zone 1.