A listing of songs that reference the names of tube (and DLR) stations. Where the complete name isn't quite mentioned but it's a close match, this is listed as an honourable mention.
A
Acton Town
Aldgate
Your country home at Aldgate
Your horses and your friends
They travelled up together
From the coast
East of Aldgate
Aldgate East
like a BEAST RELEASED from ALDGATE EAST
- Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London
Waterloo and Clerkenwell
Out to Aldgate East as well
All Saints
Alperton
Amersham
Angel
- Chiara - Angel
- Robbie Williams - Angels
- M People - Angel Street
and many more...
Archway
- The Boo Radleys - Blue room in Archway
Arnos Grove
Arnos Grove, San Clemente
Arsenal
B
Baker Street
Comin' at ya! On a Jubilee train!
Stanmore to Baker Street's the route in my brain!
Let the Hammersmith and City take you anywhere but Baker Street
Balham
I was going down to Balham
When somebody said, let's go to Clapham
Bank
And down on the Drain you can travel to Bank while reading a paper and having a...
Barbican
Barking
Barkingside
Barons Court
Bayswater
Beckton
Beckton Park
Becontree
Belsize Park
Do you remember, loving on the floor in Belsize Park
Bermondsey
She's in Mill Hill, I'm in Bermondsey, it's the end of the Earth on the Northern line
Bethnal Green
Blackfriars
Blackhorse Road
Blackwall
Bond Street
Borough
- Toy Dolls - Blaze Of The Borough
- Run-DMC / KRS-One - 5 Boroughs
Boston Manor
Boston Manor, Costa Rica
Bounds Green
Bow Church
Honourable mention:
- Traditional - Oranges and Lemons
"I do not know", says the great bell of Bow
Bow Road
Brent Cross
- Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Oh, Mr. Peanut
Where'd you get that haircut?
Brent Cross Shopping Centre?
Brixton
- Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London
Through Electric Avenue
Brixton down in southwest too
This is Brixton chess
Bromley-by-Bow
Buckhurst Hill
And people laughed and said Well that's all all right then
As alien warriors marched into Buckhurst Hill
Burnt Oak
C
Caledonian Road
Camden Town
The Bakerloo is painted brown. It doesn't pass through Camden Town
- The New Vaudeville Band - Finchley Central
At Finchley Central, ten long stations
From Golders Green, change at Camden Town
Honourable mention:
- Tarkio - Following Camden Down
You and me following Camden down
Canada Water
Canary Wharf
- Robb Johnson - The London Eye
It's just Canary Wharf gets in the way
Canning Town
Cannon Street
Canons Park
Chalfont & Latimer
Chalk Farm
Chalk Farm, Massif Central
Chancery Lane
- Graham Parker - Bean Counter
From Wall Street to Hong Kong, Chinee to Chancery Lane
Charing Cross
Chesham
Chigwell
Chiswick Park
Chorleywood
Clapham Common
Clapham North
Clapham South
Cockfosters
Colindale
Colliers Wood
Covent Garden
- Days of Fate - Covent Garden
Crossharbour & London Arena
Croxley
Custom House
Cutty Sark
Cyprus
D
Dagenham East
Dagenham Heathway
Debden
When the spacecraft crashed on Debden
It caused an increase in time
For journeys on the Central Line
Deptford Bridge
Devons Road
Dollis Hill
Dollis Hill, Fougeres
E
Ealing Broadway
Ealing Common
Earl's Court
East Acton
East Finchley
East Ham
East India
East Putney
Eastcote
Edgware
From Edgware to Epping, that's what I do
Edgware Road
Elephant & Castle
Elm Park
Elverson Road
Embankment
- Marillion - FugaziA knight for Embankment folds his newspaper castle
Epping
From Edgware to Epping, that's what I do
Euston
It misses Euston and King's Cross 'cos if it didn't, they'd both be angry.
Euston, Paddington, train station please
Euston Square
Euston Square
Both of us rushing through turnstiles
F
Fairlop
Farringdon
All I could see was Doris Day
in a big-screen satellite
disappearing down the Tube hole on Farringdon Street
Finchley Central
- The New Vaudeville Band - Finchley Central
Finchley Road
Finsbury Park
Fulham Broadway
G
Gallions Reach
Honourable mention:
Gants Hill
Gloucester Road
Golders Green
- The New Vaudeville Band - Finchley Central
Finchley Central is two and sixpence
From Golders Green on the Northern Line
Goldhawk Road
Goodge Street
Grange Hill
Great Portland Street
Green Park
Greenford
Greenwich
Snoop Grenny Greenwich, gonna knock out yo' stuffin'
Gunnersbury
H
Hainault
Hammersmith
- Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London
Oh it seems like ancient myth
They once ran to Hammersmith
Stuck in a tunnel on the Hammersmith and City line
Now you're stuck at Edgware Road
Wondering when the Hammersmith and City will come
Let the Hammersmith and City take you anywhere but Baker Street
Hampstead
Hanger Lane
Harlesden
Harrow & Wealdstone
Honourable mention:
H&W's the stop for me!
Harrow-on-the-Hill
Hatton Cross
Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3
Heathrow Terminal 4
Heathrow Terminal 5
Honourable mention:
I run overground from Ickenham to Ruislip
and head down to Heathrow international flight-strip
Hendon Central
Heron Quays
High Barnet
High Street Kensington
Highbury & Islington
Highgate
Hillingdon
Holborn
Holland Park
Holland Park, Studamer
Holloway Road
Hornchurch
Hounslow Central
Hounslow East
Hounslow West
Hyde Park Corner
I
Ickenham
I run overground from Ickenham to Ruislip
and head down to Heathrow international flight-strip
Island Gardens
K
Kennington
Valencia, Kennington, Galveston
- Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London
Teddington and Kennington
Twickenham and Paddington
Kensal Green
For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green
Kensington (Olympia)
Kentish Town
Kenton
Kew Gardens
Kilburn
Kilburn Park
Beware the youths who lurk in the dark at Maida Vale and Kilburn Park
King's Cross St. Pancras
Honourable mentions:
It misses Euston and King's Cross 'cos if it didn't, they'd both be angry.
Kingsbury
Knightsbridge
L
Ladbroke Grove
Lambeth North
Langdon Park
Lancaster Gate
I took the train to Lancaster Gate
and the trouble that I met I'm going to relate
Latimer Road
Leicester Square
- Tarkio - Following Camden Down
Leicester Square has lost its fair
Pigeon painted silver after noon
- Days of Fate - Covent Garden
We met at Covent Garden
On an October day
Destination Leicester Square
Lewisham
Leyton
Leytonstone
Limehouse
- George Formby - Mr Wu's A Window Cleaner Now
The laundry, it didn't pay
Now there's no clean collars down Limehouse way
Liverpool Street
London Bridge
- Traditional - London Bridge Is Falling Down
Loughton
M
Maida Vale
Portobello, Maida Vale, Old Ford
Beware the youths who lurk in the dark at Maida Vale and Kilburn Park
Manor House
Mansion House
Marble Arch
Marylebone
I'm the champion! The Marylebone man!
Mile End
Mill Hill East
Honourable mention:
She's in Mill Hill, I'm in Bermondsey, it's the end of the Earth on the Northern line
Monument
Moor Park
Moorgate
Morden
Mornington Crescent
- Belle and Sebastian - Mornington Crescent
Mudchute
N
Neasden
New Cross
New Cross Gate
Newbury Park
North Acton
North Ealing
North Greenwich
North Harrow
North Wembley
Northfields
Northolt
Northwick Park
Northwood
Northwood Hills
Notting Hill Gate
But if the train's late, keep your head straight
and take the first service from Notting Hill Gate
O
Oakwood
Old Street
Osterley
Oval
Oxford Circus
P
Paddington
- Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London
Teddington and Kennington
Twickenham and Paddington
Euston, Paddington, train station please
Park Royal
Parsons Green
Perivale
Piccadilly Circus
Honourable mention:
My first misery, when I embark at Piccadilly
Pimlico
Pimlico, Pimlico,
What's the point of Pimlico?
- Stefan Bednarczyk - When Santa Kissed The Fairy On The Christmas Tree
They never get far, they're always too slow
For the Children's Action Theatre Workshop Group from Pimlico
I parted with my tonsils in Toronto
My pancreas was pinched in Pimlico
Pinner
Plaistow
Poplar
Preston Road
Prince Regent
Pudding Mill Lane
Putney Bridge
Q
Queen's Park
I say, "what?", I say, "What?!", I say, "Queen's Park?!"
Queensbury
Queensway
R
Ravenscourt Park
Rayners Lane
Redbridge
Regent's Park
Richmond
Rickmansworth
Roding Valley
Rotherhithe
Royal Albert
Royal Oak
Royal Victoria
Ruislip
I'm the Theydon Bois boy, I'm the Ruislip ragamuffin.
Ruislip Gardens
Ruislip Manor
Russell Square
S
Seven Sisters
Shadwell
Shepherd's Bush
- John Sullivan - Only Fools and Horses (closing theme)
Some Trevor Francis track suits from a mush in Shepherds Bush
I admit I was in a mush when I found myself quite at Shepherd's Bush
Shoreditch
- Traditional - Oranges and Lemons
"When I grow rich", say the bells of Shoreditch
Sloane Square
Snaresbrook
South Ealing
South Harrow
South Kensington
South Kenton
South Quay
South Ruislip
South Wimbledon
South Woodford
Southfields
Southgate
Southwark
St. James's Park
St. John's Wood
St. Paul's
Stamford Brook
Stanmore
Comin' at ya! On a Jubilee train!
Stanmore to Baker Street's the route in my brain!
Stepney Green
Honourable mention:
- Traditional - Oranges and Lemons
"When will that be?" say the bells of Stepney
Stockwell
Stonebridge Park
Stratford
Sudbury Hill
Sudbury Town
Surrey Quays
Swiss Cottage
T
Temple
Theydon Bois
...heard a strange unearthly noise
On the approach to Theydon Bois
I'm the Theydon Bois boy, I'm the Ruislip ragamuffin.
Tooting Bec
Honourable mention:
- Carter USM - The Final Comedown
I've looted and I've begged
on the tubes of The Bec and Broadway
Tooting Broadway
Honourable mention:
- Carter USM - The Final Comedown
I've looted and I've begged
on the tubes of The Bec and Broadway
Tottenham Court Road
Tottenham Hale
Totteridge & Whetstone
Tower Gateway
Tower Hill
Tufnell Park
Tufnell Park, Gracetown
Turnham Green
Turnpike Lane
U
Upminster
Upminster Bridge
Upney
Upton Park
Uxbridge
V
Vauxhall
Victoria
The only non-interchange station on the Victoria Line! PIMLICO!
W
Walthamstow Central
Honourable mention:
- Bromheads Jacket - Poppy Bird
Just a few more stops to Walthamstow
Wanstead
Wapping
Warren Street
Warwick Avenue
Waterloo
Waterloo, Waterloo.
Waterloo, waterloo, la, la
Oh, the games that we play with the trains down at Waterloo
- Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London
Waterloo and Clerkenwell
Out to Aldgate East as well
Watford
Wembley Central
Wembley Park
West Acton
West Brompton
West Finchley
West Ham
West Hampstead
West Harrow
West India Quay
West Kensington
West Ruislip
Westbourne Park
Honourable mentions:
Westferry
Westminster
White City
Whitechapel
Willesden Green
Willesden Junction
Wimbledon
- Mike Batt - The Wombles (theme)
Underground, overground, wombling free
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we
Wimbledon Park
Wood Green
Woodford
Woodside Park
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