Transport for London
Transport for London is a local government body responsible for most of the transport network in London, United Kingdom. TfL is the successor organisation of the London Passenger Transport Board, which was established in 1933, and several other bodies in the intervening years.Photo: Matt Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Office building
- Description: local government body responsible for the transport system in Greater London
- Also known as: “TfL”
- Address: 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and Tate Modern.
Leicester Square
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Tate Modern
Museum
Photo: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art. It forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. Tate Modern is situated 1,600 feet northeast of Transport for London.
Southwark tube station
Metro station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Southwark is a London Underground station. It is located in the London Borough of Southwark at the corner of Blackfriars Road and The Cut. The station is on the Jubilee line, between Waterloo and London Bridge stations.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Southwark and Bankside.
Southwark
Suburb
Photo: Loz Pycock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southwark is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark.
Bankside
Quarter
Bankside is an area of London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark. Bankside is located on the southern bank of the River Thames, 1.5 miles east of Charing Cross, running from a little west of Blackfriars Bridge to just a short distance before London Bridge at St Mary Overie Dock.
St George’s Circus
Locality
Photo: Martin Addison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St George's Circus is a road junction in Southwark, London, England. At its centre, which is now a traffic roundabout, is an historic obelisk, designed by Robert Mylne, in his role as surveyor and architect of Blackfriars Bridge.
Transport for London
Latitude
51.50388° or 51° 30′ 14″ northLongitude
-0.10362° or 0° 6′ 13″ westLevels
11Operator
TfLOpen location code
9C3XGV3W+HHOpenStreetMap ID
way 33756313OpenStreetMap feature
building=officeOpenStreetMap feature
office=governmentOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q682520
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Transport for London” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Transport for London”
- Arabic: “هيئة النقل في لندن”
- Armenian: “Transport for London”
- Basque: “TfL”
- Basque: “Transport for London”
- Bengali: “ট্রান্সপোর্ট ফর লন্ডন”
- Catalan: “TfL”
- Catalan: “Transport for London”
- Chinese: “TfL”
- Chinese: “Transport for London”
- Chinese: “伦敦交通局”
- Chinese: “倫敦交通局”
- Chinese: “倫敦運輸公司”
- Chinese: “倫敦運輸局”
- Cornish: “Karyans rag Loundres”
- Cornish: “TfL”
- Cornish: “Transport for London”
- Czech: “Transport for London”
- Danish: “Tfl”
- Danish: “Transport for London”
- Dutch: “TfL”
- Dutch: “Transport for London”
- Esperanto: “Transporto por Londono”
- Finnish: “Transport for London”
- French: “TfL”
- French: “Transport for London”
- Galician: “Transport for London”
- Georgian: “Transport for London”
- Georgian: “ტრანსპორტ ფორ ლონდონი”
- German: “Transport for London”
- Greek: “Transport for London”
- Greek: “Συγκοινωνίες για το Λονδίνο”
- Gujarati: “ટ્રાન્સપોર્ટ ફોર લંડન”
- Hebrew: “TfL”
- Hebrew: “טרנספורט פור לונדון”
- Hindi: “ट्रांसपोर्ट फ़ॉर लंदन”
- Hungarian: “TfL”
- Hungarian: “Transport for London”
- Icelandic: “Transport for London”
- Indonesian: “Transport for London”
- Italian: “TfL”
- Italian: “Transport for London”
- Japanese: “ロンドン交通局”
- Korean: “런던 교통 공사”
- Korean: “런던 교통공사”
- Korean: “런던교통공사”
- Korean: “트랜스포트 포 런던”
- Malay: “Pengangkutan untuk London”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “London Transport”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Transport for London”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Transport for London”
- Norwegian: “Transport for London”
- Panjabi: “ਟਰਾਂਸਪੋਰਟ ਫ਼ਾਰ ਲੰਡਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਟ੍ਰਾਂਸਪੋਰਟ ਫ਼ਾਰ ਲੰਡਨ”
- Persian: “شرکت حمل و نقل لندن”
- Polish: “Transport for London”
- Portuguese: “Transport for London”
- Quechua: “Transport for London”
- Russian: “TfL”
- Russian: “Transport for London”
- Russian: “Департамент транспорта Лондона”
- Serbian: “Транспорт за Лондон”
- Slovak: “Transport for London”
- Slovenian: “TfL”
- Slovenian: “Transport for London”
- Spanish: “TfL”
- Spanish: “Transport for London”
- Spanish: “Transporte de Londres”
- Swedish: “Transport for London”
- Tamil: “இலண்டனுக்கான போக்குவரத்து நிறுவனம்”
- Thai: “TfL”
- Thai: “Transport for London”
- Thai: “การคมนาคมลอนดอน”
- Thai: “องค์การการคมนาคมสำหรับลอนดอน”
- Turkish: “Transport for London”
- Ukrainian: “London Transport”
- Ukrainian: “TfL”
- Ukrainian: “Transport for London”
- Urdu: “لندن کے لئے نقل و حمل”
- Urdu: “لندن کے لیے نقل و حمل”
- Vietnamese: “Cục Vận tải Luân Đôn”
- Western Panjabi: “لندن لئی ٹرانسپورٹ”
- Yiddish: “טראנספארט פאר לאנדאן”
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