Stock photography picture of Charing Cross station and BT Tower viewed from the London Eye London, England, UK

ANJ25X - Licenced Caption Charing Cross station and BT Tower viewed from the London Eye London, England, UK Description Charing Cross railway station is a central London railway terminus. It is unusual among London's railway termini in that its services connect it to two of the others, Waterloo East and London Bridge. It is one of 17 stations managed by Network Rail, and trains serving it are operated by Southeastern and Southern. It is the fifth busiest rail terminal in London. The station takes its name from its location next to the central London road junction of Charing Cross.The front of the station faces The Strand, while at the other end is the northern end of Hungerford Bridge (The Golden Jubilee Bridge), which is crossed by all trains serving the station.The original station building was built on the site of the Hungerford Market by the South Eastern Railway and opened on 11 January 1864. The station was designed by Sir John Hawkshaw, with a single span wrought iron roof arching over the six platforms on its relatively cramped site. The curve of the original roof design can still be seen on the interior brickwork. A year later the Charing Cross Hotel, designed by Edward Middleton Barry, opened on 15 May 1865 and gave the station an ornate frontage in the French Renaissance style. At the same time, a replica of the Eleanor Cross was erected in the station forecourt, based on the original 13th century Whitehall Cross that had been demolished in 1647. Distances in London are officially measured from the original site of the cross in Whitehall, now the statue of Charles I, and not from this replica cross. Keywords Vertical