Paddington
It boasts a mainline railway station,
Paddington station, with commuter service for the west of London (e.g.
Slough,
Maidenhead,
Reading,
Swindon) and mainline service to
Oxford,
Bristol,
Bath,
Taunton,
Exeter,
Plymouth,
Cornwall and also South
Wales including
Cardiff and
Swansea. There is also an
express rail line to
Heathrow Airport.
In Paddington Station there is a statue of
Paddington Bear, a character of children's fiction who, in the book, is first discovered at this station and hence named after it.
Nearest places
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Bayswater*
St John's Wood*
MaryleboneNearest tube stations
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Edgware Road tube station*
Lancaster Gate tube station*
Paddington station*
Warwick Avenue tube station*
Paddington Bridge*
Paddington Bear* "
Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green"
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Newspad (local publication covering the area and its surrounds)
