The London Underground station that was bizarrely given the same name as another one down the road

Tube stations are crammed like sardines into Central London. It seems like every time you pass one, within five minutes, you've found another.

That's especially the case on a road just off Hyde Park, which boasts two just up from each other.

Turn onto Queensway from Bayswater Road, and you'll be met on the left by the road's namesake station. Further up, you'll find Bayswater station.

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As if it weren't peculiar enough for two stations to be on the same, not-very-long road, they even used to have the same name, that being 'Queen's Road'.

Which gets even weirder, as the road is called 'Queensway', not 'Queen's Road'. Queensway station got its current name in 1946, but not before Bayswater was renamed to avoid confusion between the two stops.

Bafflingly, this isn't the only time in the history of the Tube that this has been a problem.

Shepherd's Bush Market in West London is a short jaunt from the much larger, much busier Shepherd's Bush, but it bore the same name.

This obviously had to change, seeing as the larger station serves a different line, as well as the Overground, a major bus hub and is the prime station for shoppers heading to Westfield.

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