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Embankment is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster, known by various names during its history. It is served by four lines: Bakerloo , Circle , District and Northern . On the Bakerloo line and the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line, the station is between Charing Cross and Waterloo stations.
All the Stations is a documentary series published on YouTube, which sees Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe visit all 2,563 stations [note 1] on Great Britain's National Rail rail network, [4] [5] [6] and all 198 stations in Ireland, on the railway networks of Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland.
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Michael Portillo during filming at Taunton station in 2017. Great British Railway Journeys is a 2010–present BBC documentary series presented by Michael Portillo, a former Conservative MP and Cabinet Minister who was instrumental in saving the Settle to Carlisle line from closure in 1989.
Slough House is an administrative purgatory for MI5 service rejects who have seriously failed a task but have not been sacked. Those consigned there are known as "slow horses", a play on the name of the place itself, Slough House, and an expression for people past their prime who are slow in thinking and action.
c. cx), which received assent on 22 July 1904, granted permission to buy additional land for the station at Tottenham Court Road, for a new station at Mornington Crescent and for changes at Charing Cross. [48] [49] The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Act 1905 (5 Edw. 7. c. clxvii) received assent on 4 August 1905.
It was not until 1974 that the tube and sub-surface parts of the station officially had the same name which was, for a time, "Charing Cross Embankment" before the current name was introduced in 1976. A detailed explanation of the various names the station has had is available from the first of the external links on the article page.
Walford East is a fictional District line station in the BBC television soap opera EastEnders, [81] and since February 2010 episodes have used Computer-generated imagery (CGI) of District line trains running into the station. [82] The production tube map situates this station in place of Bromley-by-Bow.