Focus ... morning!
i've come to Bank tube station
in the heart of the city, behind me!
not the Bank of England as some people sometimes get confused
that is the Royal Exchange, but here
we have Bank ... station, on the underground, the Tube
and it's many entrances and exits
now at the moment there's some building work taking place over there
and the Underground are building a brand new entrance/exit
to Bank station, just over there, down there
on Cannon Street, and it occured to me
that it's really close to Cannon Street station
which is a separate station
and it's even closer to Monument station
which is another separate station
but how close
and so i've done the things which i'm sure
you know, you sitting at home would do as well
and that's to dig out your measuring wheel
and i'm gonna measure the shorest distance between
the two surface entrances, to see ...
... which is, the shortest distance
here's where Bank, Cannon Street and Monumenr stations are located
in the city, Mansion House is also shown on the map here for reference
but if you take the physical access points
from the street that you can descend to those stations
then Monument has six ways in
Bank has fourteen, it's going to be fifteen
and Cannon Street
has just the one street entrance
as well as one inside the mainlnie station
but that new entrance to Bank that they're building
well look, that comes out ... here
and you can see upon lookint at this map
that this is really close to Monument
but also ...
what about this one the Walbrook entrance to Bank station
that looks really close to Cannon Street station
so that's the other one ... i'm going to measure
the good news, is that
you know, wandering around the City of London
at lunchtime, with a measuring wheel
isn't getting me any strange looks at all
by which i - hello there madam
which i mean, it's getting me many
strange looks, that's fine
but for the purposes of this test
i'm going from street level entrance to street level entrance only
so the pedants, i know might be saying
you should go from gateline to gateline, but
i don't want to take my measuring wheel
inside the station, plus the gates are closed here
and it's just easier to do
down there, so the first test will be from here
this is the relatively new ... couple of years ago Walbrook Street entrance
of Bank station, and i want to see how close it is
to Cannon Street! down there
which is a separate station
and then i'll be going to the new
Cannon Street, BANK entrance which they're still building
haven't quite finished yet which is ridiculously
close to the nearest surface entrance
of Monumene station, so umm ...
i guess there's nothing else for it but to start measuring
i've err, i've attached my phone down below
onto the wheel
for that expert cutaway shot!
ok, this is ridiculously close when they opened that entrance, i did thikn
it is ridiculously close to Cannon Street but now we're gonna
accurately find out, just how close it is to Cannon Street. just got to ...
... negotiate crossing the road
alright, i'm looking at the wheel the official measurment is in
that is one hundred and four metres from the Walbrook
entrace exit of Bank, down to
cannon street on the side here
so now i've got to go to the new Cannon Street entrance of Bank
and walk to Monument
Ok, so same again!
just ... judging the traffic
it's really really short, the wheel is trundling away, i'm wondering
if it's going to be less than 100 metres
i reckon so
just go up the kerb
and we approach the nearest, corner
steps down to ...
... Monument station
So! perfectley normal everyday activity
bring your measuring wheel to the streets of London around the City
and that is 72 metres, so that is ...
... officialy i think the nearest surface entrance to surface entrance
between any two tube stations
someone was saying ...
Hammersmith, do the two hammersmiths, are they closer together
i don't think they are, i think it's here when it opens, at the end of 2022
the new Cannon Streer Bank entrance
to the nearest entrance of Monument tube station
the only one, technically? which might be closer
is at Shepherd's Bush, but that from the Central Line station
so an Overground station, so between ...
Tube and Overground, maybe but from Tube to Tube
if you're keeping it pure tube, pure Underground
i think ... this is it
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