Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD [1966 feature film version] |
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| This cinema adaptation of the original Doctor Who BBC1
TV serial featured a remarkable piece of premonition by having a Thames-side
Underground station called "Embankment," even though the name was not
in use by London Underground at the time. The District line part of
the current "Embankment" station was opened as "Charing Cross" on 30/05/
1870, but when the Bakerloo line platforms were added on 10/03/1906, the
station serving them was named "Embankment." The latter changed to "Charing
Cross (Embankment") when Northern line services were added under the same
name on 06/04/14, while both changed to plain "Charing Cross" to match the
District side on 09/05/15. It was not until 04/08/74 that whole complex was
renamed "Charing Cross Embankment," before becoming just "Embankment" on
12/09/79. Along the same timescale, the separate "Trafalgar Square"* and
"Strand" stations were renamed "Charing Cross." As seen in the film, however,
"Embankment" station apparently serves only the Bakerloo & Northern,
and since there never was a use of the single-word name for a station restricted
to just those two lines, it more properly fits in the "fictional" category.
In the film, of course, it was not the real thing, but rather a back-lot
mock-up.
See also Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth [21/11-26/12/64 BBC1 version]. |
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| Ray Brooks lies in ambush next to Paul E Garbutt's 1962 version of the the Tube diagram. | The rather unrealistic rebel hide-out - too large even for a platform tunnel - behind a hidden panel in the station. Perhaps in this alternative universe there was a Deep Level Shelter at this station?! | ||||||||
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