What’s in a Name?

Travel Guide

London Underground

What is in a name? You’d be surprised. There is a lot of names which were never used or were changed before they became the names you see on the stations today.
For example:  ‘East Barnet and Merryhills’ was considered for the station that opened with the name of ‘Enfield West’ on 13 March, 1933 and then changed it’s name on 1 September, 1946 to ‘Oakwood’? and that The ‘Elephant and Castle’ was named after a tavern which was demolished in 1959

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Interesting facts about the tube to make this book even more fascinating!

Many tube stations were used as air-raid shelters during the Second World War

The Central Line was converted into a fighter aircraft factory The fact that this even existed remained an official secret until the 1980s.

Want to go to middle Earth? Well the closest you’re going to get is in the Hampstead station on the Northern line and you’ll be going down to 58.5 metres.

Not so keen to go that far down? Try Stratford as it’s not half as deep and has the shortest escalator on the tube network

Think you’ve seen a few rats on the network? Head to  Aldgate Station, on the Circle and Metropolitan Lines, this is actually built on a massive plague pit, where more than 1,000 bodies are buried.