Four people would save $5,200 in a year if everyone saved $25 per week.
Bank $200 for 12 months and receive 2% interest
plus a roll of the dice, minimum 1% (2%+1%=3%) and up to 6% (6%+2%=8%)
Own two oe more stations; get two rolls of the dice, min 2% +2%= 4%, max 2%+ 12%= 14%
If you wish to invest in a station,
send (NZ)$200 to westpac bank
Account # 03 0474 0607912 000
The
history of the London Underground
is one of gradual evolution. One section of it was the first urban
underground passenger-carrying railway in the world, for although the
Atlantic Avenue Tunnel in
New York City,
opened in 1844, is sometimes called the "world's oldest subway tunnel",
this had no stations and was used for long-distance as well as suburban
trains.
King's Cross railway station,
[3] also known as
London King's Cross,
[4] is a
central London railway terminus opened in 1852. The station is on the northern edge of
central London, at the junction of the
A501 Euston Road and York Way, in the
Kings Cross district and within the
London Borough of Camden on the border of the
London Borough of Islington.
King's Cross is the southern terminus of the
East Coast Main Line, one of the UK's major railway backbones. Some of its most important long-distance destinations are
Leeds,
Newcastle and
Edinburgh. It also hosts outer-suburban services to
Bedfordshire,
Hertfordshire and
Cambridgeshire as well as a regional service to
Peterborough,
Cambridge and
Kings LynnImmediately adjacent to the west is
St Pancras railway station, the London terminus for international
Eurostar trains, high-speed trains to
Kent via
High Speed 1, and
East Midlands Trains, as well as a major interchange for
Thameslink services between
Bedford and
Brighton.
The two stations are operationally completely separate, but from the
passenger's point of view they may be regarded as a single complex for
interchange purposes. They share
King's Cross St. Pancras tube station on the
London Underground
network, where six Underground lines meet. Taken together, these two
main-line stations and the associated underground station form one of
Britain's biggest transport hubs.
The platforms have been reconfigured several times. Originally there was
only one arrival and one departure platform (today's platforms 1 and 8
respectively), with the space between used for carriage sidings. In
later years, as suburban traffic grew, space for additional platforms
was added with considerably less grandeur. The secondary building now
containing platforms 9–11 (and the fictional
Platform 9 3⁄4) survives from that era.
Platform Nine and Three Quarters
Platform 9¾ sign at King's Cross Station
The ride on the Hogwarts Express starts from King's Cross railway station platform 9¾, which is invisible to Muggle eyes and is reached by walking through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10.
Rowling discovered after the books were published that she had confused the layout of King's Cross with that of Euston station, and that platforms 9 and 10 at King's Cross were not the ones between which she had meant her magical platform to be placed.[31]
There is no platform between lines 9 and 10 at King's Cross. To solve
this, the filmmakers re-numbered platforms 4 and 5 for the duration of
filming. In reality, at both King's Cross and Euston, platforms 9 and 10
are separated by railway lines. The exterior shots in the film are that
of adjacent St Pancras station.
Coincidentally, a local legend claims that Queen Boudica fought her last battle near the site of King's Cross Station, and her body is said to be buried somewhere between platforms nine and ten.[32]
Bond Street (0.1 miles), Marble Arch (0.4 miles), Oxford Circus (0.4 miles)
London Marylebone (0.8 miles), London Paddington (1.2 miles), London Euston (1.3 miles)
