In message , at 22:10:34 on Thu, 7 Jun 2012,
The Real Doctor remarked:

There are no trains from Charing Cross to Embankment.

Apart from the Northern Line, and if you include the old Trafalgar
Square Station, the Bakerloo.

But I'm all in favour of re-opening Aldwych, if it was cost effective.
It's a long walk in the rain, and I'm generally heading for Kings Cross
so Temple and the southern section of the Circle isn't a lot of use. I'd
head for Covent Garden rather than Holborn, and there's some cover
halfway too.
--
Roland Perry