Embankment tube station

Embankment is a London Underground station in the , known by various names during its history. It is served by four lines: Bakerloo, Circle, District and Northern.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: London Underground station
  • Also known as: “Charing Cross (Embankment) tube station”, “Charing Cross (Embankment) Underground station”, “Charing Cross Embankment tube station”, “Charing Cross Embankment Underground station”, “Charing Cross tube station”, “Charing Cross Underground station”, “Embankment station”, “Embankment Underground station”, and “Embankment Underground Station”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leicester Square and London Charing Cross.

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The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

Railway station
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Charing Cross railway station is a central London railway terminus between the and Hungerford Bridge in the . It is the terminus of the Southeastern Main Lines to via and via . is situated 340 feet west of Embankment tube station.

Ferris wheel
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The , originally the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the of the 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. is situated 1,500 feet south of Embankment tube station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Covent Garden and Whitehall.

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is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of , and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.

Locality
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is a road and area in the , Central London, England. The road forms the first part of the A3212 road from to .

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The is on a sharp 90° bend of the Thames in central and one of the city's cultural centres. It is a small area but it contains many artistic and creative sites, as well as an eclectic range of other attractions, boutique shopping and trendy food and drink places.

Embankment tube station

Latitude
51.50721° or 51° 30′ 26″ north
Longitude
-0.12224° or 0° 7′ 20″ west
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
Operator
London Underground
Network
London Underground
Open location code
9C3XGV4H+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5207123395
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
6954686
Wiki­data ID
Q1334978
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Embankment tube station” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إمبانكمينت (محطه مترو أنفاق لندن)”
  • Arabic: “إمبانكمينت”
  • Basque: “Embankment geltokia”
  • Bengali: “এমব্যাংকমেন্ট আন্ডারগ্রাউন্ড স্টেশন”
  • Bengali: “এমব্যাংকমেন্ট টিউব স্টেশন”
  • Catalan: “Embankment”
  • Catalan: “estació de metro d’Embankment”
  • Chinese: “基堤站”
  • Chinese: “堤岸站”
  • Czech: “Embankment”
  • Danish: “Embankment Station”
  • Danish: “Embankment undergrundsstation”
  • Dutch: “Embankment”
  • Esperanto: “Embankment”
  • Finnish: “Embankmentin metroasema”
  • French: “Embankment (metro de Londres)”
  • French: “Embankment (métro de londres)”
  • French: “Embankment (Métro De Londres)”
  • French: “Embankment”
  • Gan Chinese: “音班庫紋杜站”
  • German: “Embankment”
  • Hebrew: “תחנת אמבנקמנט טיוב”
  • Hungarian: “Embankment metróállomás”
  • Hungarian: “Embankment”
  • Indonesian: “Embankment”
  • Italian: “Embankment”
  • Italian: “stazione di Embankment”
  • Japanese: “エンバンクメント駅”
  • Korean: “엠벤크먼트”
  • Lombard: “Embankment (metropolitana de Londra)”
  • Lombard: “Embankment”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Embankment undergrunnsstasjon”
  • Norwegian: “Embankment undergrunnsstasjon”
  • Persian: “ایستگاه امبانکمت”
  • Persian: “ایستگاه متروی امبانکمنت”
  • Polish: “Embankment”
  • Portuguese: “Embankment (Metropolitano de Londres)”
  • Portuguese: “Embankment”
  • Portuguese: “Estação de Embankment”
  • Romanian: “Embankment”
  • Russian: “Набережная (станция метро)”
  • Russian: “Эмбанкмент”
  • Slovak: “Embankment”
  • Spanish: “Embankment”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Embankment”
  • Spanish: “estación de metro de Embankment”
  • Swedish: “Embankment”
  • Turkish: “Embankment metro istasyonu”
  • Turkish: “Embankment tube station”
  • Ukrainian: “Ембанкмент”
  • Urdu: “ایمبینکمینٹ ٹیوب اسٹیشن”
  • Welsh: “Gorsaf danddaearol Embankment”
  • Yiddish: “עמבאנקמענט אונטערגרונט סטאנציע”
  • Yiddish: “עמבאנקמענט”
  • Yue Chinese: “堤岸站”
  • “Embankment”

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