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Old September 24th, 2005, 07:43 PM
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Default London tube - to walk or not to walk therapeutic massage UK

With all the bomb scare, 'cattle class' syndrom (overcrowding and no
air contidioning) and extraorbitant prises on London underground
system there is something worth considering - walking. A number of
stations are in fact a lot closer in real life than they appear on
the map.

Every year thousands of tourists descend onto the Underground at
Covent Garden for the one stop journey to Leicester Square, without
realising that these two neighbouring stations are the closest
together on the entire network, only 250 metres apart.

It's possible to walk from one to the other at surface level in three
minutes flat, whereas the tube journey takes at least five minutes
even in perfect conditions (2 minutes down to the platform via the
lift, 35 seconds on the train and 2½ minutes back up via the second
longest escalator on the network).

Here are a few other 'touristy' stations that are surprisingly close
at street level, and the actual tube journey times between them:

" Bayswater to Queensway (220 metres apart) - 14 minutes via
Circle and Central lines

" Regents Park to Great Portland Street (220 metres apart) - 17
minutes via Bakerloo and Circle lines

" Euston to Euston Square (300 metres apart) - 22 minutes via
Victoria and Circle lines

" St Pauls to Mansion House (400 metres apart) - 25 minutes via
Bank/Monument

Many other overcrowded stations (all within 500m walk):

Bond Street - Oxford Circus

Hyde Park Corner - Knightsbridge (for Harrods museum)

Covent Garden - Tottenham Court Road

Piccadilly Circus - Leicester Square

Charring Cross - Embankment

Eustone - Kings Cross St Pancras

St Pauls - Barbican

Lancaster Gate - Paddington

Goodge Street - Holborn

and many mo

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