Charing Cross station may refer to:
In London, England:
- Charing Cross railway station
- Charing Cross tube station (on the London Underground)
- Embankment tube station was previously named Charing Cross
In Glasgow, Scotland:
- Charing Cross (Glasgow) railway station
Famous quotes containing the words charing cross, charing, cross and/or station:
“Cry;—and upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacob’s ladder
Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)
“I went out to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered—which was done there—he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.”
—Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)
“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)
“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)