It is astonishing that through all the years that the
Northern Railway has been in existence (I remember when it was the Hampstead Tube that ran only from Hampstead to the Strand, crossing what was then, the Twopenny Tube at Tottenham Court Road) it should never, so far as I know, have occurred to anyone but a correspondent of The Times this Week to point out how grossly misleading it is to call the station on the Embank- ment Charing Cross and the station at Charing Cross Strand. There is no doubt where Charing Cross is ; the cross itself stands in the forecourt of Charing Cross Southern Region station. There is no doubt where it isn't—on the embankment. To change the Strand to Charing Cross and call the station on the embankment what you like (why not Embankment ?) is one of those reforms which have only to be proposed to evoke (I should hope) universal \assent. • * * * *
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