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The Central line is a London Underground line that runs from West Ruislip or Ealing Broadway in West London to Epping in Essex or Woodford via Hainault in East London, via the East End, the City, and the West End. 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]
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.
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 ...
For anyone with even a passing acquaintance with London, the city's Tube map is as iconic as the red buses or the black cabs. Now, London Mayor Sadiq Khan hopes to bring some clarity to the ...
The game also features the multiplayer map "Underground", in which players are combating in a fictitious Underground station. The London Underground map serves as a playing field for the conceptual game of Mornington Crescent [343] (which is named after a station on the Northern line) and the board game The London Game.
These were called the tube lines. Since the 1950s the term "tube" has come to be used to refer to the whole London Underground system. [4] Many of the central London deep-tube line stations, such as those on the Central and Piccadilly lines, are higher than the running lines to help with deceleration when arriving and acceleration when ...
Pages in category "Central line (London Underground) stations" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Geographic route map of the Central London Railway. The Central London Railway (CLR), also known as the Twopenny Tube, was a deep-level, underground "tube" railway [note 1] that opened in London in 1900. The CLR's tunnels and stations form the central section of what became London Underground's Central line.