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Every week people are spending a lot of money travelling between the two closest Tube stations on the entire network.

The journey only takes 37 seconds and yet tourists and other passengers are spending £2.40 to hop on the Tube at one and get off at the other.

Even though the walking distance between them is only 0.2 miles, or 275m, which takes three to four minutes on average to walk.

They are actually on the same street, and it would be quicker to walk the distance than go all the way down into the London Underground station, wait for a train, complete the journey and come back up to street level.

Have you guessed which stations they are yet?

Leicester Square and Covent Garden, which are connected by the Piccadilly Line.

A freedom of information (FOI) request made by the Telegraph revealed that 862 people make the journey between these two stations in a year. As in they get on the Tube at Leicester Square and get off at Covent Garden, or vice versa.

This amounts to more than 45,000 people every year and adds up to £105,000.

People often don't realise just how close some Tube stops are to each other.

Other stations that are very close together are Embankment and Charing Cross, Mansion House and Cannon Street, Marylebone to Edgeware Road and Holborn to Chancery Lane.

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