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An unofficial topological tube map of the London Underground system. Also included are the London Overground, Docklands Light Railway, the Tramlink and Elizabeth line systems for integration purposes. The London Underground is a metro system in the United Kingdom that serves Greater London and the home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and ...
The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.
The London Underground is a public rapid transit system in the United Kingdom that serves a large part of Greater London and adjacent parts of the home counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. It has many closed stations, while other stations were planned but never opened for public use.
A geographic London Underground map showing the extent of the current network (Amersham and Chesham stations, top left, are beyond the extent of the map.) London Underground's eleven lines total 402 kilometres (250 mi) in length, [ 1 ] making it the eleventh longest metro system in the world .
The railway infrastructure of the London Underground includes 11 lines, with 272 stations.There are two types of line on the London Underground: services that run on the sub-surface network just below the surface using larger trains, and the deep-level tube lines, that are mostly self-contained and use smaller trains.
Northern line trains will begin serving Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station from around 5.30am on Monday.
Printed in red on the Tube map, the line serves 49 stations over 46 miles (74 km), making it the network's longest line. [3] It is one of only two lines on the Underground network to cross the Greater London boundary, the other being the Metropolitan line.
Printed in dark blue (officially "Corporate Blue", Pantone 072) on the Tube map, it is the sixth-busiest line on the Underground network, with nearly 218 million passenger journeys in 2019. The first section, between Finsbury Park and Hammersmith , was opened in 1906 as the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR).