What to see near Stratford: a guide to London by tube

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2013/jan/09/what-to-see-near-stratford-tube

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<strong>Nearby highlights </strong>Stratford somersaulted into our national consciousness in summer 2012 with the arrival of the Games, and the Olympic Park will one day become a regenerated recreation hub, though currently it's inaccessible. In the meantime, you can get your kicks elsewhere. For mind-popping fringe theatre, check what's on at the Theatre Royal Stratford East (Gerry Raffles Square, stratfordeast.com. If you're hungry, try one of the nearby family-run Caribbean Scene restaurants, all of which waft you to the West Indies with their smiling charm, jerk chicken and white callaloo. Finally, walk along the Greenway and pay homage to the Abbey Mills Pumping Station. This bizarre Byzantine temple of turd is a defunct sewage pump.

<strong></strong><br /><strong>Did you know? </strong>Though recently refurbished for the Olympics, Stratford station has been in use since 1839, and part of the Central line since 1946. On 8 April 1953, in tunnels just outside Stratford station 12 passengers were killed and 45 injured when a moving train collided with a stationary one.