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4 unusual facts about Monument station


Bank–Monument station

The station, with platforms under Queen Victoria Street and close to Mansion House, opened on 8 August 1898 as "City".

Minories

The DLR was extended westward in 1991 to Bank leaving this as an 'alternate terminus'; it is now open again following platform extension works in 2009.

Monument station

Monument station is the name of different stations on two urban transport networks in the United Kingdom

Mott, Hay and Anderson

Early projects included the reconstruction and extension of the City & South London Railway, the building and extension of the Central London Railway, the construction of lifts beneath St Mary Woolnoth church at Bank Underground station, the underpinning of Clifford's Tower, the reconstruction of Southwark Bridge and the widening of Blackfriars Bridge.


42nd Street Shuttle

Waterloo & City lineLondon Underground's shortest line, is a shuttle running non-stop between Bank–Monument station and Waterloo station in central London.

Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Associations

It is situated just off Lower Thames Street (A3211), between Tower Hill tube station and Bank–Monument station.

London Underground anagram map

Bank was anagrammatized into 'nabk', the edible berry of the Ziziphus lotus tree.

Woolwich Arsenal station

As Woolwich Arsenal is a terminus, both platforms serve an up line to Bank or Stratford via London City Airport and Canning Town.


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