Queen's Park Underground Station

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• Convenient for meeting for coffee

  This is where the underground on the Bakerloo often starts and ends and you have to change onto the overground to get on the Watford line. Actually it's better to change here than wait until Harrow & Wealdstone which is deserted and desolate at night. Better still, if you want the overground, get the through train from Euston, where you can often sit on the train and wait. Queens Park is a grotty station. It has sheltered seating. Starbucks in in the busy street upstairs which has some restaurants which seems highly priced for the area.I wondered why it was called Queens Park station and looked on the Internet to no avail. I found a station in Toronto dating back to 1860 named in honour of Queen Victoria, and one in Australia named for Queen Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII. I also learned that Queens Park Rangers football team started here before moving to Shepherd's Bush.I ordered myself a book on railway station names, Discovering London Street Names by John Wittich. His book says that Queens Park is named after Queen Victoria. You might be interested in What's In A Name by Cyril M Harris, or London Lines, the capital by underground by Michael Kelly.

  Angella
  Review Date: 02/12/2008 Report review