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Covent Garden is a London Underground station serving Covent Garden and the surrounding area in the West End of London. It is on the Piccadilly line between Leicester Square and Holborn stations and is in Travelcard Zone 1. [8] The station is at the corner of Long Acre and James Street and the street-level concourse is a Grade II listed building.
Although the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines station at Paddington is on the other side of the main line station to the Bakerloo, Circle and District lines station, it is shown as a single station on the current Tube map, but still counted as two in the official station count. It has been shown as two separate stations at different times in ...
Map of Zone 1 Underground stations, pre 2021. London is split into six approximately concentric zones. Zone 1 covers the West End, the Holborn district, Kensington, Paddington and the City of London, as well as Old Street, Angel, Pimlico, Tower Gateway, Aldgate East, Euston, Vauxhall, Elephant & Castle, Borough, London Bridge, Earl's Court, Marylebone, Edgware Road, Lambeth North and Waterloo.
The shortest distance between adjacent stations is the 330 yards (300 m) between Leicester Square and Covent Garden on the Piccadilly line. [1] The station furthest south is Morden on the Northern line, 9.9 miles (16 km) from Moorgate. The station furthest east is Upminster on the District line, 16 miles (25 km) from Tower Hill. [1]
Piccadilly Circus is a London Underground station located directly beneath Piccadilly Circus itself, with entrances at every corner. It is served by the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines and is located in Travel-card Zone 1. On the Bakerloo line, the station is between Oxford Circus and Charing Cross stations.
The tunnel towards Covent Garden (at this point heading south-west) passes under the branch tunnels. As with most of the other GNP&BR stations, the station building was designed by Leslie Green, [10] though at Holborn the station frontage was, uniquely, constructed in stone rather than the standard red glazed terracotta.
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After World War I, Covent Garden, Russell Square, South Kensington, Brompton Road and Gloucester Road were among the stations skipped. Boston Manor , South Ealing, North Ealing and Barons Court were included into these patterns by 1938.