Charing Cross tube station
Charing Cross was a tube station located on the Circle line. It also serviced three other lines, depicted in black, brown and green on the map of the London Underground network. On both the Circle line and the green line, Charing Cross was located between Temple and Westminster. On the brown line it was located between Trafalgar Square and Waterloo, while on the black line it was located between Strand and Waterloo. It was located north of the River Thames. (GRAPHIC: "London Underground map" [+]Part of The Doctor: His Lives and Times, Loading...{"page":"40","namedpart":"London Underground map","1":"The Doctor: His Lives and Times"}) It was located adjacent to Trafalgar Square and the Strand. (AUDIO: The Year of the Bat [+]Loading...["The Year of the Bat (audio story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
19th century[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 1867, Wyld's Great Globe was dislodged and rolled down Whitcomb Street, before resting at the gates of Charing Cross Station. (AUDIO: The Year of the Bat [+]Loading...["The Year of the Bat (audio story)"])
In 1893, the Sixth Doctor, Henry Gordon Jago, George Litefoot, and Leela all disembarked from a train at that station after enduring a plot by Kempston and Hardwick. (AUDIO: The Lonely Clock [+]Loading...["The Lonely Clock (audio story)"])
20th century[[edit] | [edit source]]
It was proximate to Covent Garden. The Second Doctor walked the distance between the two along the rails, during the so-called "London Event". The British Army had rigged the station to explode, in order to combat the Mark II Yeti. Due to the fact that Jamie McCrimmon lied to the Army about being alone, the detonator was activated in ignorance of the Doctor's presence. Charing Cross, and the Doctor himself, escaped demolition only because a Yeti contained the explosion with its webbing. (TV: The Web of Fear [+]Loading...["The Web of Fear (TV story)","The Web of Fear"]) Charing Cross appeared on a map of the London Underground network at the time of the London Event. (GRAPHIC: "London Underground map" [+]Part of The Doctor: His Lives and Times, Loading...{"page":"40","namedpart":"London Underground map","1":"The Doctor: His Lives and Times"})
Mike Yates was once sent by the Brigadier to Charing Cross in order to stop the inter-galactic criminal Hingrad from exiting the London Underground there. Hingrad was instead more interested in escaping via a tunnel he had dug from Tower Hill to the Tower of London itself. (COMIC: Secret of the Tower [+]Loading...["Secret of the Tower (comic story)"])
Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]
City of the Daleks[[edit] | [edit source]]
Sylvia escaped into Charing Cross tube station in 1963, after attempting to blow up Daleks patrolling Trafalgar Square. At this time, the entrance to the station had been boarded up, and much of the Underground was in ruins, due to the Dalek invasion of Earth. She was pursued by the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond. The timeline was restored when the TARDIS crew travelled to Skaro to destroy the Eye of Time. (GAME: City of the Daleks [+]Loading...["City of the Daleks (video game)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The black, brown and green lines which appear on the "London Underground map" [+]Part of The Doctor: His Lives and Times, Loading...{"page":"40","namedpart":"London Underground map","1":"The Doctor: His Lives and Times"} have yet to be named within the DWU. In the real world they are the Northern, Bakerloo and District lines respectively.
- The Web of Fear does not identify the station's location, which is at the Charing Cross Road.
- Charing Cross shares with Monument the honour of being one of the few tube stations to be used as the location for a cliffhanger. Episode 1 of The Web of Fear [+]Loading...["The Web of Fear (TV story)","The Web of Fear"] ends on the Charing Cross platform.
- In the real world, Charing Cross and surrounding stations underwent extensive redevelopment when the Jubilee line was built in the 1970s. The station originally known as Charing Cross was merged by a passenger walkway with Trafalgar Square to become Embankment, and the station formerly known as Strand became the new Charing Cross.
