Cannon Street station, also known as London Cannon Street or simply Cannon Street, is a central London railway terminus and London Underground station on Cannon Street, in the City of London. It is built on the site of the medieval steelyard, the trading base in England of the Hanseatic League.
It is located in Travelcard zone 1 and is one of 18 railway stations in the United Kingdom managed by Network Rail.
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Famous quotes containing the words cannon, street and/or station:
“Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What are you now? If we could touch one another,
if these our separate entities could come to grips,
clenched like a Chinese puzzle . . . yesterday
I stood in a crowded street that was live with people,
and no one spoke a word, and the morning shone.
Everyone silent, moving. . . . Take my hand. Speak to me.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)
“Say first, of God above, or Man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of Man what see we, but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Thro’ worlds unnumber’d tho’ the God be known,
‘Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
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—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)