Even TfL says you should just walk instead
Two London Underground stations are three minutes apart on foot but half an hour on the Tube. The offending stations are West London’s Wood Lane, and White City, both found on Wood Lane (the road).
The journey between the two takes ages. To get to each other requires a couple of changes too: from Wood Lane, you’d have to take Hammersmith & City or Circle line journey to Edgware Road. Then, you’d have to hop on the either the District or another Circle line branch to travel southwards to Notting Hill Gate.
For the third and final leg of the journey, passengers must then travel three stops on the Central line to White City.
To make matters worse in this Tube odyssey, White City station used to be called Wood Lane station. But due to it’s slightly awkward positioning, it was closed in 1947 and moved slightly north, where it was then renamed White City station. The project was due to be completed by 1940, but was put on hold due to the Second World War.
Some 60 years later in 2008 the brand new Wood Lane station was built or a different line completely (Circle and Hammersmith & City). It was the first underground stop to be built on an existing tube line for 70 years.
Both stations are pretty popular stops on the Tube network as they’re right next to Westfield shopping centre.
They aren’t the only Tube stations which are crammed in near to one another. Take Covent Garden and Leicester Square, for example. Both Central London stations are on the Piccadilly line and are just 320 metres apart.
Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge stations are also on the Piccadilly line, and are less than one kilometre apart, with 643 metres between them.
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