Charing Cross railway station is a central London railway terminus between the Strand and Hungerford Bridge in the City of Westminster. It is the terminus of the South Eastern Main Line to Dover via Ashford.

When was Charing Cross station rebuilt?

New below ground passageways were constructed linking the platforms so that an interchange could be made. The Northern line's Strand station was temporarily closed from 1974 to enable new escalators to be installed and it reopened along with the opening of the Jubilee line on 1 May 1979.

Why is Charing Cross called Charing Cross?

Charing Cross is the name of the road junction to the south of Trafalgar Square, and that's where the station gets its name from. ... The word Charing comes from old English 'cierring', which means 'turning', a reference to the bend in the River Thames by the station.