Charing Cross Station

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This view from The London Eye shows the South side of Charing Cross Station. The trains cross the Thames over Hungerford Bridge and go underneath Embbankment Place, a post-modern office and shopping complex designed by Terry Farrell and Partners, built in 1990.
The station was built on the site of the Hungerford Market and opened on Monday, 11 January, 1864.
An ornate, French Renaissance style, frontage was added in 1865 as part of the Charing Cross Hotel that spans the entrance.
The original, single-span, roof collapsed on Tuesday, 5^th December, 1905.

The name “Charing Cross” refers to the road junction of the Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street, just south of Trafalgar Square in Westminster within Central London, England. It is often used a central datum point for distances in the London area and is named after the site of the long demolished Eleanor Cross (now occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse) located at the former hamlet of Charing.
King Edward I had twelve crosses erected between 1291-4, marking the route of the funeral procession from Lincoln to London,as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile.

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