Wrong Station, Right Line
By Ron Rybs
@Ronrybs (19585)
London, England
August 27, 2016 4:32am CST
At Embankment Tube Station, there is a typo that has been around for years and, can be, rather misleading.
In the passageway to the Bakerloo Line the route map shows a stop at Willesden Green (8th from the top). The right half of the picture shows the map at Charing Cross Station and correctly labels the stop as Willesden Junction.
To be fair, the Bakerloo did stop at Willesden Green, until 1979, but then continued onto Stanmore - a service now provided by the Jubilee Line. So, this is not an old map forgotten about. I am guessing whoever designed this one just remember the old station, the names being so similar.
Not a problem if you are a regular on the Tube, and for visitors it just adds to the excitement of travelling on the Underground!
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
anxiety producing if you can't communicate with them
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@JudyEv (342100)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Aug 16
@hereandthere That's true. We tried to follow directions out of a car park in Tipperary once in Ireland but what we needed to do was go out the exit that said 'No Exit'. All the local shoppers were going that way. Later we were told 'nobody takes any notice of that' but of course we felt we had to.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
27 Aug 16
I wonder if anyone does get confused by it
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
28 Aug 16
@Ronrybs on my travels to the capital I just look at the quickest route from where I am to where I want to be - the only stations that matter are the connections and final destinations and the stops immediately before them as you know yours is next as you pass those and that it's time to get up and reach towards the doors
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
27 Aug 16
I'll bet there are other such typos on the network... as well as fictitious stops on certain lines, like Vauxhall Bridge (used in one of the James Bond movies, I think!).
This is as well as stations so close physically that it is better to leave one station and walk to another than it is to actually change and travel from one to the other (can't remember which two in Central London fall into this category...
I have never had to travel the network long enough to develop the knowledge...
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
27 Aug 16
I'd be the one needing to get off at Willesdon.
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
27 Aug 16
@Ronrybs - I'd be the guy on the wrong train!
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@Ronrybs (19585)
• London, England
27 Aug 16
@teamfreak16 I've done that so often I don't even worry about it anymore and just enjoy the journey
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