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Stupid question for London people

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11:10 / 03.12.06

I'm aiming to get down to London for this tomorrow, and the first train i can afford to buy a ticket for gets to London Marylebone for just after 1pm. As, according to details posted on another board i post on, the demo proper will start at approx. 2 (altho stuff will apparently have been going on since about 11), i want to get there reasonably quickly, and not have to piss around asking people such as police and tube station staff (who are very likely not to be very helpful at all) what the quickest way to get to Parliament is, does anyone here know what the nearest tube station is?

(It's probably something incredibly obvious like "Parliament Square" or something, isn't it? Will probably slap myself...)

Thanks in advance as i need to pop out now, won't be back on the net til this evening...

11:24 / 03.12.06

It's Westminster, on the Jubilee (and District maybe?)lines. The main station entrance is next to the Houses of Parliament (albeit over a stinky junction at the top of Westminster Bridge).

13:48 / 03.12.06

Yeah, Westminster is on the Circle/District lines as well as the Jubilee line, but if you have the choice/chance, its well worth arriving at the station via the Jubilee line just to look at the architecture - everytime i walk through there I just imagine spiderman swinging around on the huge horizontal concrete columns...

14:24 / 03.12.06

Thought it might be worth pointing out that I always found the tube staff very helpful with these sort of questions...

16:21 / 03.12.06

I'd imagine myself falling to the floor in an attempt to control my vertigo.

I wish I wasn't so afeared of heights. You miss out on cool stuff.

16:29 / 03.12.06

Well, that photo is slightly misleading because you don't really get to see it all from above, you generally see more looking up...