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The Kingsway Tramway Subway is a cut-and-cover Grade II Listed tunnel in central London, built by the London County Council, and the only one of its kind in Britain.
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This end previously housed the southern portal of the Kingsway Tramway Subway until the late 1950s.
Victoria Embankment was also the southern end of the Kingsway Tramway Subway.
Abandoned conduit trackage at the Kingsway Tramway Subway in London
The last tram was withdrawn in June 1952 and virtually all the tracks had been removed by the 1970s, although a short section can still be seen in the Holborn area at the entrance to the former Kingsway Tramway Subway.
Kingsway and Subway
Kingsway Subway entrance in Southampton Row
* Subterranea Britannica page on Kingsway Tram Subway
* Illustrated articles on London's conduits and the Kingsway Tram Subway.
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The New Academic Building ( the former Public Trust Building on Kingsway ), is one of the most environmentally friendly university buildings in the UK.
Noel Rees's name is still used as a selling point by estate agents, his houses can be found in Great Thrift, The Covert, Prince's Avenue, Wood Ride, Kingsway, Chislehurst Road, The Chenies and many other roads in Petts Wood.
" This is expected to be the first of three solo albums through a partnership with Kingsway Music.
Kingsway has an almost intact underground passageway for trams which is rarely open to the public.
St Joseph's Catholic Church is located on the roundabout at the northern end of Kingsway North on Burdyke Avenue.
While there is only one bus route in Covent Garden itself — the RV1, which uses Catherine Street as a terminus, just to the east of Covent Garden square — there are over 30 routes which pass close by, mostly on the Strand or the Kingsway.
It is often called the Birkenhead Tunnel, to distinguish it from the Kingsway Tunnel, which serves Wallasey.
This is in contrast to the Kingsway Tunnel, where lanes in toll concourse are alternated to prioritise higher traffic in one direction during peak hours.
The Kingsway Tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey in Merseyside, northwest England, and runs between Liverpool and Wallasey.
The entrance to the Kingsway Tunnel is used as the basis of a tunnel entrance in the video game Grand Theft Auto III — during the 1990s, several members of the game's development team had worked for the Merseyside-based development company Psygnosis.
* Sir Edmund Hillary Primary School is on Kingsway off Kilton Hill ( B6041 ).
Holborn is a station of the London Underground in Holborn in London, located at the junction of High Holborn and Kingsway.
Ofsted's main office is in Kingsway, Holborn in central London.
Kingsway / Usk Way is a boulevard on the west bank of the River Usk linking the Old Green Interchange to the Southern Distributor Road at the western end of City Bridge and to Newport Transporter Bridge.
The Kingsway Shopping Centre is an indoor shopping mall.
The Kingsway is a residential neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
" The Kingsway " is also the name of the Business Improvement Association business district along Bloor Street.
The Kingsway is one of the more affluent areas in Toronto, the average housing price as of May 2011 was $ 1, 464, 263.
For planning purposes the neighbourhood is known officially by the City of Toronto as " Kingsway South " to differentiate it from a more recent extension of The Kingsway north of Dundas Street.
The area now known as ' The Kingsway ' is a combination of three distinct areas:
This part of the modern Kingsway, now centred on the street ' The Kingsway ', was the least developed area until the neighbourhood was subdivided ; it is now the most exclusive ( and leafy ) part of the Kingsway as well as its namesake ; the street ' the Kingsway ' beginning at gates beside the Old King's Mill.
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After World War II this was turned into Kingsway telephone exchange.
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Compounded with the opening of the Kingsway road tunnel on 28 June 1971 and a further decline in passenger numbers ( only 4, 000-5, 000 a day ), the future of the service was uncertain.
These are now best served by the Kingsway tunnel.
* Chord @ Kingsway Tunnel, flickr photoset about an art installation in the tunnel, showing views of the tunnel itself — October 2009
Two road tunnels, the Queensway road tunnel from Birkenhead, and the Kingsway road tunnel from Wallasey, run underneath the River Mersey and connect the town to Liverpool.
* Kingsway tramway subway, a tunnel in London, England
* Kingsway Tunnel, a road tunnel in Merseyside, England
In 1964, the Strand Underpass, a road tunnel, was opened to alleviate northbound traffic flow from Waterloo Bridge to Kingsway.
Entrance to the underpass from Waterloo BridgeThe Strand Underpass ( sometimes incorrectly called the Kingsway Underpass ) is a vehicle tunnel in central London connecting Waterloo Bridge to Kingsway near Holborn.
The railway tunnel and Queensway Tunnel connect Liverpool with Birkenhead, while the Kingsway Tunnel runs to Wallasey.
A third tunnel opened in 1971, the Kingsway Tunnel, connecting with the M53 motorway which now runs up the centre of the peninsula.
Further commissions for road tunnels were received for the revitalised Dartford tunnel in 1956, Mersey Kingsway tunnel in 1966, Blackwall southbound tunnel in 1967, second Dartford tunnel in 1972, and the Hatfield, Bell Common, Holmesdale and Penmaenbach tunnels in the 1980s.
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The two streets and others such as the Thames Embankment, Northumberland Avenue, Kingsway and Aldwych were built to improve traffic flow through central London.
Development of the, until then largely undeveloped eastern part of central Etobicoke ( originally a forest reserved for the use of government mills as " The King's Mill Reserve "; ' Kingsmill '), the ' Humber Valley ', was largely the work of Robert Home Smith starting about 1900 which included the communities of the Kingsway and Edenbridge.
Aldwych tramway station ( separate from Aldwych tube station ) was a tram stop underneath Kingsway, a road in central London, England.
Holborn tramway station was a tram stop underneath Kingsway in central London, England.
Now rebranded — by Westminster council and the Society of London Theatre — as " Theatreland ", London's main theatre district, which contains approximately forty venues, is located in the heart of the West End of central London, and is traditionally defined by The Strand to the south, Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the west, and Kingsway to the east.
These facilities were laid out along a wide central artery, known as ' Kingsway ', almost two miles long.
The 352 route, which enters the suburb and serves the central section, links to Whitfords railway station ; the 450, running along Kingsway, links to Warwick railway station, whilst the 372 route, which terminates on Landsdale Road in the suburb's southwestern corner, links to Mirrabooka bus station.
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