London Charing Cross
Charing Cross railway station is a central London railway terminus between the Strand and Hungerford Bridge in the City of Westminster. It is the terminus of the Southeastern Main Lines to Dover via Ashford and Hastings via Tunbridge Wells.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway terminus in Westminster, central London, England, UK
- Also known as: “Charing Cross”, “Charing Cross railway station”, “Charing Cross station”, “Charing X”, and “CHX”
- Address: Strand, London, WC2N 5HS
- Wheelchair access: no
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Photo: Tom Page, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and London Eye.
Leicester Square
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The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
London Eye
Ferris wheel
Photo: Khamtran, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The London Eye, originally the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over three million visitors annually. London Eye is situated 1,800 feet southeast of London Charing Cross.
National Gallery
Art gallery
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. National Gallery is situated 1,300 feet northwest of London Charing Cross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Covent Garden and Whitehall.
Covent Garden
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Covent Garden is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of London, and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.
Whitehall
Locality
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Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London, England. The road forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea.
West End of London
Locality
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The West End of London is a district of Central London, England, in the London Boroughs of Camden and the City of Westminster. It is west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops…
London Charing Cross
- Categories: station building, dead-end railway station, station located on surface, station, and transportation
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.5075° or 51° 30′ 27″ northLongitude
-0.12369° or 0° 7′ 25″ westElevation
82 feet (25 metres)Operator
Network RailNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“CHX”Open location code
9C3XGV4G+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 7140186755OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=noGeoNames ID
2653340Wikidata ID
Q801128
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“London Charing Cross” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشارنغ كروس”
- Bengali: “চ্যারিং ক্রস রেলওয়ে স্টেশন”
- Chinese: “查令十字車站”
- Chinese: “查灵十字车站”
- Chinese: “查靈十字站”
- Chinese: “查靈十字車站”
- Chinese: “查靈閣站”
- Czech: “Charing Cross”
- Danish: “Charing Cross station”
- Danish: “Charing Cross Station”
- Danish: “London Charing Cross Station”
- Danish: “London Charing Cross”
- Dutch: “station London Charing Cross”
- Dutch: “Station London Charing Cross”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة تشارينج كروس”
- Finnish: “Charing Crossin rautatieasema”
- French: “Charing Cross”
- French: “gare de Charing Cross”
- French: “Gare de Charing Cross”
- German: “Bahnhof Charing Cross”
- German: “Bahnhof London Charing Cross”
- German: “Charing Cross Station”
- German: “London Charing Cross”
- Hebrew: “צ’רינג קרוס”
- Hebrew: “תחנת צ’רינג קרוס”
- Hungarian: “Charing Cross pályaudvar”
- Indonesian: “Stasiun kereta api Charing Cross”
- Inuktitut: “ᐊᖅᓵᖅᑑᔭᖅ ᐃᑳᕐᕕᒃ”
- Italian: “Charing Cross”
- Italian: “stazione di Charing Cross”
- Italian: “Stazione di Charing Cross”
- Italian: “stazione di Londra Charing Cross”
- Japanese: “チャリング・クロス”
- Japanese: “チャリング・クロス駅”
- Japanese: “チャリングクロス駅”
- Korean: “채링 크로스”
- Korean: “채링크로스역”
- Malay: “Stesen keretapi Charing Cross”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Charing Cross jernbanestasjon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Charing Cross stasjon”
- Norwegian: “Charing Cross stasjon”
- Norwegian: “Charing Cross”
- Persian: “ایستگاه راهآهن چارینگ کراس”
- Persian: “ایستگاه راهآهن چرینگ کراس”
- Polish: “Charing Cross Station”
- Polish: “Charing Cross”
- Portuguese: “Estação ferroviária de Charing Cross”
- Russian: “Чаринг-Кросс”
- Serbian: “Charring Cross railway station”
- Serbian: “Железничка станица Черинг Крос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Charing Cross”
- Slovak: “Charing Cross (železničná stanica)”
- Slovak: “Charing Cross”
- Spanish: “Charing Cross”
- Spanish: “Estacion de Charing Cross”
- Spanish: “Estación de Charing Cross”
- Turkish: “Charing Cross Tren İstasyonu”
- Ukrainian: “Чарінг-кросс”
- Ukrainian: “Чарінг-Кросс”
- Urdu: “چارینگ کراس ریلوے اسٹیشن”
- Urdu: “چیرنگ کراس ریلوے اسٹیشن”
- Venetian: “Stasion de Charing Cross”
- Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Charing Cross Llundain”
- Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Charing Cross”
- Yiddish: “טשארינג קראס באן סטאנציע”
- Yiddish: “טשארינג קראס”
- Yiddish: “לאנדאן טשארינג קראס”
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