Vine Street, London 19th century. The street's association with law has led to it being grouped with Bow Street and Marlborough Street on the standard British Monopoly board. The street is approximately long and is a dead end, running east and parallel to Piccadilly near Piccadilly Circus. It consists mainly of the rear facades of buildings facing onto other streets. It connects to Swallow Street at its western end and an alleyway, Piccadilly Place halfway along. At the eastern end, the Man in the Moon Passage provides foot access to Regent Street. The nearest tube station is Piccadilly Circus. The street is named
Uxbridge (Vine Street) branch line Acton and Wycombe Railway was authorised 1897, later forming a shortened route from Paddington towards High Wycombe; the route was later adopted and extended jointly by the Great Western Railway and the Great Central Railway, and is usually referred to as the GW and GC Joint Line. In 1898 the GWR obtained Parliamentary authorisation to build a branch line from Denham on that line to Uxbridge Vine Street; a further Act of 1 August 1899 allowed a variation to the route. The connection to the Vine Street station would have run to the east of Oxford Road roudabout, but this