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Liverpool Street

See the Metropolitan Line: East of Harrow section of this guide.

Bank

See the Northern Line: High Barnet and Bank Branches section of this guide.

St Paul's

Alight here for St Paul's Cathedral. The station was originally to be named Newgate Street, but opened as Post Office in July 1900 and was only renamed St Paul's in February 1937. Work began on a shelter at St Paul's for use during the Second World War, but it was never completed. The station consists of two levels, with the westbound line sitting above the eastbound so that both are directly underneath Cheapside.

Chancery Lane

Named after the one-way street a little way to the west, Chancery Lane station actually sits on High Holborn, with a pair of subway exits situated on either side of this main road. The station closed on Sundays, and while access is strictly by steps and escalators, the station features the shortest escalator on the Underground with only 50 steps. The station has a deep-level shelter which was used during the Second World War. Like St Paul's, the station consists of two levels, although in this case it is the eastbound line that is on top.

British Museum

This station is now closed - see Abandoned Lines and Stations.

Holborn

See the Piccadilly Line: North of Leicester Square section of this guide.

Tottenham Court Road

See the Northern Line: Edgware and Charing Cross Branches section of this guide.

Oxford Circus

See the Victoria Line section of this guide.

Bond Street

See the Jubilee Line section of this guide.

Marble Arch

This station is often approached via an extremely complex system of subways with many numbered exits, not all of which can lead you directly to the tube station. In fact, not all of the subways are connected to one another, and those not following the signs can end up popping up all over the place before actually finding the station. The underground ticket hall seems vulnerable to prevailing winds. There are several fast food outlets and a small supermarket very close to the station entrance, if you're peckish and in a rush.

Lancaster Gate

Queensway

Notting Hill Gate

See the District Line: West of South Kensington section of this guide.

Holland Park

Shepherd's Bush

This is actually a collective name for two stations, one on the Central line and one down the road on the Hammersmith & City line. There was a scheme at one point towards the end of the 20th Century to rename this station Shepherd's Bush Green to avoid confusion with the Hammersmith & City Line station, and some signs at Central Line stations in central London actually had it down as Shepherd's Bush Green for quite a while. Naturally, the errant 'Green's were later covered over with white sticky tape.

The exits at Shepherd's Bush are at the very western end of the platforms, and the tunnel takes a very sharp turn northwards towards White City just after leaving the station. Shepherd's Bush is unusual in that the tunnel opens out at the eastern end of the platforms into one large cavern, and the platforms are only separated by from each other by a few columns rather than being in individual tunnels.

White City

Alight here for BBC Television Centre (and various other buildings, including the one h2g2 is based in) and QPR football club. You can often see reasonably famous people on their way to or from the BBC.
The station building itself was built after WWII, and won an architectural award at the Festival of Britain - the station bears a plaque indicating this. It's also quite unusual for an Underground station these days in that it has public toilets.

White City is the first station above ground on the Westbound Central Line coming from Central London, and also the first station west of Marble Arch where trains can be turned round and sent back east. It has two island platforms in between three tracks - the centre track can be accessed from either platform, and although through-running is possible on it, it's usually used for trains that terminate. The doors open on the side of the Westbound platform, the tube is emptied, the doors are closed and then the opposite set are opened on the other side on the Eastbound platform¹.

East Acton

North Acton

Ealing Broadway Branch

The line then splits into two branches, with a short branch to Ealing Broadway and a longer branch northwards to West Ruislip. The stations on the Ealing Broadway branch are:

West Acton

Ealing Broadway

See the District Line: West of South Kensington section of this guide.

The stations on the West Ruislip branch are:

Park Royal

(planned)

Hanger Lane

Perivale

Greenford

Northolt

South Ruislip

Ruislip Gardens

West Ruislip

This station is 34 miles along the line from the eastern terminus at Epping. There were originally plans for an extension towards Denham and Harvil Road - see Abandoned Lines and Stations.