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|[[Image:CharingCrossTube.jpg|thumb|right|200px|One of the entrances to Charing Cross tube station from [[Trafalgar Square]]]]
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|[[Image:CharingCrossTubeSign.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A [[roundel]] sign on one of the [[Northern Line]] platforms at Charing Cross station, within the mural by David Gentleman]]
Charing Cross [[London Underground]] station serves both the [[Northern Line|Northern]] and [[Bakerloo Line|Bakerloo]] lines and provides an interchange with the [[National Rail]] network at [[Charing Cross railway station|Charing Cross station]].
On the Northern Line it is between [[Embankment tube station|Embankment]] and [[Leicester Square tube station|Leicester Square]] stations on the Charing Cross branch, and on the Bakerloo Line it is between [[Embankment tube station|Embankment]] and [[Piccadilly Circus tube station|Piccadilly Circus]] stations. It is in [[Travelcard Zone 1]].
The 100 metre-long mural along the Northern Line platforms was designed by [[David Gentleman]]. It shows scenes from the funeral journey of [[Eleanor_of_Castile_(1241-1290)|Eleanor of Castile]] (the wife of [[Edward I of England|Edward I]]) from Nottinghamshire to her tomb in Westminster Abbey (see [[Eleanor cross]]).
== HistoryAbout Me ==
The station used to be separate stations with the Bakerloo Line being served (since [[March 10]], [[1906]]) by [[Trafalgar Square]] station and the Northern Line (since [[June 22]], [[1907]]) by [[Strand tube station|Strand station]]. The concourses were linked by subterrean underpasses and walkways and the resulting complex named "Charing Cross" on [[May 1]], [[1979]], when the station also became the southern terminus of the new [[Jubilee Line]]. The Jubilee Line platforms were closed to public use in [[1999]] when that line was extended via [[Westminster tube station|Westminster]] and the [[South Bank]] to [[Stratford station|Stratford]].
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The Northern Line station had also gone by several other names, having opened as Charing Cross station on [[June 22]], [[1907]] before being renamed to "Charing Cross (Strand)" on [[April 6]], [[1914]]. From [[May 9]], [[1915]] until it closed for refurbishment and rebuilding on [[June 4]], [[1973]] it was known simply as ''Charing Cross''.
== My Interests ==
The name "Charing Cross" had also previously used by what is now [[Embankment tube station]]. For all the time Charing Cross was known as "Charing Cross (Strand)", Embankment had used the name "Charing Cross (Embankment)". When Charing Cross (Strand) took the name "Strand", Charing Cross (Embankment) became "Charing Cross" until [[August 4]], [[1974]].
My pastimes include [[fiction]], surfing the internet [[Internet_chat | chatting]], [[movies]] and the ocassional [[whistling]].
== Film & TV appearances ==
* The disused Jubilee line platforms were used in the filming of the [[2005]] film [[Creep (movie)|Creep]].
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== Nearby places of interest ==
* [[Trafalgar Square]]
* [[National Gallery, London|National Gallery]] and [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]]
* [[Leicester Square]]
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== Nearest Tube stations ==
(1)[[Douglas Hofstadter ]]
* [[Embankment tube station|Embankment]]
(2)[[Evariste Galois | Galois]]
* [[Covent Garden tube station|Covent Garden]]
(3)[[M.C.Escher |Escher]]
* [[Leicester Square tube station|Leicester Square]]
* [[Temple tube station|Temple]]
* [[Westminster tube station|Westminster]]
== References ==
* Cyril M Harris: ''What's in a name?'', fourth edition reprint, [[2004]]. Published by Capital Transport, in co-operation with [[London Transport Museum]]; ISBN 1854142410.
==External link==
* [http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=530288&Y=180409&A=Y&Z=1 Station ___location] from [http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ Streetmap.co.uk]
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