Orwell uses this allusion to Paddington Station in London because it was the original site of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway. The fact that Paddington Station still stands in a world where Big Brother and The Party control everything shows that even when facts are covered up and changed, history can never fully be erased. The fact that it was an underground railway suggests a further connection- "underground" implies secret and possibly dangerous, much like Julia and Winston's affair.
Source: "Paddington Station." Wikipedia, Web.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Paddington_station>.
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