Passengers pay a membership and can hire a folding bike to get them to and from the station.

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It has a viewing platform, a cafe, a space which acts a community hub and a bike hire scheme run by a local charity.

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And a trial of an electric bike hire scheme will begin by 2016, linking a hilly area of the city with limited public transport to a Tube station.

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It has free showers, bike hire and a kitchen and barbecue area.

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London Mayor Boris Johnson is to give tandem bicycle based on the city's bike hire scheme as a wedding present to Prince William and Kate Middleton.

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The council said the self-service bike hire scheme will run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Figures for Scotland's first bike hire scheme show it has averaged less than 20 rentals a week since it was started two years ago.

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