LONDON – It’s a mystery tour, but it’s hardly magical.
More than nine miles from the striped crosswalk made famous by the Beatles album “Abbey Road,” this drab transit station in east London keeps drawing confused fans of the Fab Four into unwanted jaunts through a gritty, industrial area just south of London’s Olympic Stadium.
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Abbey Road Station has no relation to the Beatles’ Abbey Road Studios, the birthplace of the eponymous album and a London tourist landmark.
The glass-and-metal station is wedged among a train depot, warehouses, and gloomy public housing projects, a world away from the leafy, suburban street pictured on the album’s cover.
It didn’t take long for American visitor Christie Johnson, 22, to figure out she was in the wrong place.
“It didn’t look right,” the Denver resident said. She and her embarrassed host – English student Melody Vettraino – wanted to see the iconic crosswalk on a whim.
At the nearby Star Newsagents, 36-year-old Paramjeet Kaur said her convenience store saw an average of a dozen Beatles fans a day.
London counts at least 11 Abbey Roads. The common street name harkens back to the medieval priories that once dotted the area.
But Abbey Road Station, which opened last year, is the only one in London to bear the name. Given the Beatles connection, some have urged the capital’s transit authority to modify its maps.
Transport for London officials said Tuesday there are no plans to change the station’s name.
Man ordered to stay away from Miley
LOS ANGELES – A judge has granted Miley Cyrus a three-year civil restraining order against a man convicted of trespassing at her home in Los Angeles.
The stay-away order was granted Friday against Jason Luis Rivera by Superior Court Judge William D. Stewart.
The 40-year-old Rivera was convicted in October of trespassing at the singer’s home and sentenced to 18 months in jail.
He is scheduled to be released in May. Authorities said at the time of Rivera’s arrest in September that he was carrying scissors and ran into the wall of Cyrus’ home as if trying to break in. Rivera did not respond to Cyrus’ petition.
The 20-year-old former star of “Hannah Montana” did not attend the hearing.
Colbert enjoys waxy buildup at Tussauds
WASHINGTON – Stephen Colbert is taking his place among the presidents at the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Washington and will be featured in a new media gallery.
Colbert visited the museum Friday to unveil a wax figure created to represent him. The museum says Colbert donated his own clothes to dress the figure in a suit, tie, cuff links and lapel pin. Colbert wore an identical outfit.
The new figure will be the centerpiece of a new media gallery with a replica of “The Colbert Report” set where guests can sit next to Colbert’s figure behind his fake news desk.
Designers from Madame Tussauds went to Colbert’s New York studio in June to take more than 250 measurements and photographs of the Comedy Central star to create the wax figure.
– From news service reports
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