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unusual facts about tube station



8 Canada Square

The nearest tube station is Canary Wharf serving the Jubilee Line, which can be reached undercover via Canada Place shopping centre, and Canary Wharf DLR station serving the Docklands Light Railway.


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Burnt Oak tube station

Burnt Oak tube station is a London Underground station in Burnt Oak, north London, on Watling Avenue, off the A5 (the Edgware Road, originally a Roman Road known as Watling Street).

Cockfosters tube station

Cockfosters tube station features prominently in the novel While England Sleeps by American author David Leavitt.

East Finchley

Jerry Springer was born in East Finchley tube station in 1944 when his parents lived at Belvedere Court.

Håkan Nesser

Barbarotti is a more upbeat character than Van Veeteren and the books are firmly set in Sweden, although the town of Kymlinge is fictitious and named after an "abandoned tube station" in Stockholm.

Discovered performing in a North London Tube station by Eurythmics mastermind, Dave Stewart,who asked Ke to perform the closing credits song "Broken Circles" for the movie The Ref starring Kevin Spacey.

Leytonstone tube station

In honour of the centenary of the birth of film director Alfred Hitchcock (born 13 August 1899 in Leytonstone), the London Borough of Waltham Forest commissioned the Greenwich Mural Workshop to create a series of mosaics of Hitchcock's life and works in the tube station.

Life on Your Own

Twenty years later the influence of the video would be felt when the opening scenes of the 2002 film 28 Days Later would directly mirror the video; complete with a deserted rubbish strewn London bridge, abandoned Scania Metropolitan bus (KJD 201P) and deserted Tube station.

Museum railway station

Museum's signage and cream tiling with maroon highlights are reminiscent of a typical London Underground tube station of the era, however its layout of central tracks under a grand arch are more in keeping with older stations of the Paris Metro.

Portcullis House

The building was designed by Michael Hopkins and Partners and incorporates Westminster tube station below it.

Putney Bridge tube station

Fulham Football Club's Craven Cottage stadium is about 1 kilometre to the north-west, and the tube station is often very busy on matchdays.

Queensbury, London

The tube station, and its local surroundings and characters were cited in the song "Queensbury Station" by the Berlin-based punk-jazz band The Magoo Brothers on their album "Beyond Believable", released in 1988.

Shadwell station

Shadwell railway station, a station on the London Overground (formerly Shadwell tube station on the East London Line)

Shepherd's Bush station

Shepherd's Bush tube station, now known as Shepherd's Bush Market tube station, on the Hammersmith & City line of the London Underground