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6-14 Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill, London, W2 4DU, United Kingdom
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Trafalgar Square - London
Tower Bridge
The Houses of Parliament & Big Ben
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Hello,
We are planning to go the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London in September or possibly do a Jack the Ripper Walk at night. We will need to get from the Tower Hill station to Victoria Station via the tube. How late do the trains run and is it safe to travel at night?
Thanks!
It's perfectly safe. Details of last (and first) tube times here: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1129.aspx. It looks as if the last train from Tower Hill to Victoria (District Line) is 00.26, arriving 00.40.
The tube is fine at night, the Jack the Ripper walk will wrap up probably around 9:30 and the tube runs much later than that. If for some reason you are out really late there are night buses as we found out last night when our show got out at 12:30am and the tube was closed :-)
It's not the tube, it's the Underground.
Tubes are small trains that run in tunnels.
"It's not the tube, it's the Underground. Tubes are small trains that run in tunnels."
That's interesting. I've worked in London for 15 years and never realised that there was a distinction (not that I take the District line much). The Transport for London web site doesn't distinguish either - it refers to all lines of the 'Underground' as the 'Tube'.
Most of the District line is above ground, so calling it 'Underground' is probably confusing too.
It's definitely NOT the 'Metro' though!
"The Transport for London web site doesn't distinguish either - it refers to all lines of the 'Underground' as the 'Tube'."
= the difference between a fact and a factoid.
"Most of the District line is above ground, so calling it 'Underground' is probably confusing too."
A lot of the tubes run above ground too, outside the central area. The Underground runs in covered ditches, such as the Circle/District at Euston Sq. In that sense it's below ground, but not deep underground like the tube. Would have been useless as any form of air-raid shelter.
John, TFL calls it the tube, I'm not sure what point you were trying to make unless you meant to point out that it could be called either one.
I'm also puzzled by the point being made. All the major tourist information centres also refer to it as the Tube.
And, for what its worth, the Tube doesn't refer to the trains - it is derived from the shape of the system's deep-bore tunnels
My wife and I where in London for a couple of weeks last year. We used the "Underground" quite often. We did three Shows while we where there and found that the "Underground", while not as frequent as during daytime, was both safe and convenient.
PS.
Who cares what its called!!
Thanks everyone! We are looking forward to our trip.
Visit the 'big ones':
Tower of London
St. Paul's Cathedral
Big Ben/Parliament
Westminster Abbey
221 B Street (Sherlock Holmes!)
The Original Hard Rock Cafe
Buckingham Palace
Trafalger Square Seeing Prince Charles drive by our bus!
I recently came across a website, which I'm not sure was for real or whether it was tongue-in-cheek.
It claimed to apply Feng Shui to the whole city.
For instance, the River Thames is seen as an artery of good chi. The Thames barrier therefore threw the Feng Shui of most of the city out of kilter - leading eventually to the boom and bust years of the Eighties. Luckily the building of the London Eye (millenium wheel) meant that it restored the balance by acting like a giant waterwheel.
It also claimed that the M25 was a essentially just a Druidic stone circle writ large. The fact it had jams most of the days meant that it affected the 'chi flow'.
It is fairly obvious that I'm going to castigate this as the most awful pile of self-deluded tommy-rot. Anyone who believe this tosh should wake up and smell the crystals!
(Previously known as the Hungerford Bridge).
There has been a footbridge across the Thames at this point since 1846, when Isambard Kingdom Brunel built a suspension bridge for pedestrians. This was replaced in 1863 by a railway bridge into the new Charing Cross Station, with a walkway on each side. However, one walkway was soon lost when the railway bridge was widened. The debate on how to improve the crossing has been going on for decades. The new footbridges were the result of an international design competition in August 1996 to design a new, improved pedestrian river crossing. The winning design comprises two footbridges on either side of the railway, supported from tall, tapering steel pylons leaning outwards from the railway bridge. The two bridges were completed in September 2002, and formally opened by Princess Alexandra in July 2003.
The bridges link the major rail and tube stations at Charing Cross, Embankment and Waterloo, and also the arts and entertainment centres of the South Bank and the West End.
By law it is prohibited that children enter a pub. But, there are a few pubs with a ´childrens certificate´, where children are allowed. See below for a useful website. Note that not ALL pubs mentioned there do allow kids! A good choice is the ´Audley´ pub, 41 Mount Street, Mayfair. To avoid frustrations, please always ask the bar staff first! Cheers !
PS Please send me an e-mail if you know more child friendly pubs; thanks in advance!
Many hotels and B& B's don't necessarily provide face cloths (or washcloths). If you request one, you will get what we American's call a hand towel. In the UK, a washcloth is called a flannel. I recommend you bring one of your own along with a ziploc baggie to pack it in when wet.
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