Bromley-by-Bow tube station at Barking (as of December 2014). Three London Buses routes serve the station: 323, 488 (towards Hackney Wick only) and the "D" prefix route D8. In the BBC soap opera "EastEnders", the fictional Walford East Underground station takes the place of Bromley-by-Bow. Bromley-by-Bow tube station Bromley-by-Bow is a London Underground station in Bromley (also known as Bromley-by-Bow), Greater London, England. The station is below the Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach Road and situated in the East End of London and lies between Bow Road and West Ham stations on the District and Hammersmith & City lines, and is in both Travelcard
EastEnders in popular culture within the health industry to: "describe the elderly population who continue to smoke heavily without registering the health problems they are or will soon suffer from, seeing it as their only pleasure left in life". Chris Moyles' "Difficult Second Book" contains a chapter called "There Is No "Carry On" in "EastEnders"", referring to many things that cannot exist in the "EastEnders" fictional world, due to actors appearing in both TV shows, including Spandau Ballet (Martin Kemp), "Carry On" (Barbara Windsor), "Grange Hill" (Todd Carty and Susan Tully), "Hotel Babylon" and "Red Cap" (Tamzin Outhwaite), "Jonny Briggs" and "Star Wars" (Leslie