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WALKING THE TUBE
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 Blue (and other colour) plaques on this route include:
 
T S Eliot, writer - Kensington Court Place
 
Vera Brittain, writer - Doughty Street
 
George Dance the Younger, architect - Gower Street
 
Charles Wyndham, actor manager - York Terrace East

 
THE CIRCLE LINE

 

The Circle Line is unusual in that the builders of the rail network did not set out to make it, it grew gradually out of what was aready there; namely the Metropolitan and District railways, with the section between Mansion House and Aldgate being completed in 1884. The end result was an excellent way of connecting the major London mainline termini.
 
There are 13 miles of track on the line connecting the 27 stations.

 Statues  and busts on this route include:
John F Kennedy - Marylebone Road
 
Hippocrates - Gower Street
 
Field Marshall Montgomery - Whitehall
 
Sherlock Holmes - Baker Street Station