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The Victoria line is a London Underground line that runs between Brixton in south London and Walthamstow Central in the north-east, via the West End. It is printed in light blue on the Tube map and is one of the only two lines on the network to run completely underground, the other being the Waterloo & City line .
The Night Tube and London Overground Night Service, often referred to simply as Night Tube, is a service pattern on the London Underground ("Tube") and London Overground systems which provides through-the-night services on Friday and Saturday nights on the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly, and Victoria lines, and a short section of the London Overground's Windrush line.
The Victoria line is the most intensively used line on the Underground, in terms of the average number of journeys per kilometre. [9] In the early 2000s, the reliability of service on the line was decreasing due to the age of the 1960s-era Automatic Train Operation (ATO) system, and the 1967 Stock used on the line.
But from the last departures on 24 December the station will close for the ... where passengers can change for the Victoria line of the London Underground. “Allow additional time for your ...
[34]: 336 Successful, the Victoria line was equipped with its 1967 Stock, and as the new trains arrived they spent three weeks working between Woodford and Hainault. [34]: 338 The line opened to Victoria in stages in 1968–69 and extended to Brixton in 1971. [26]: 59 In the 1970s, the Piccadilly line was extended to Heathrow Airport.
As with all Victoria line stations, the platforms feature tiled murals in the seat recesses – the work at Brixton by Hans Unger is a pun on the station name, suggesting a "ton of bricks". [17] Since 2018, Art on the Underground has used the header wall above the main staircase to the ticket hall for temporary murals, by artists such as ...
The original GER entrance to the station was situated in West Green Road at the north end of the surface station, but the new combined entrance was opened in Seven Sisters Road at the south end on the site of a former wood merchants yard, connecting to the west end of the Victoria line platforms. The original (1872) entrance was closed at that ...
The three car units had a 1938 tube stock middle carriage. These trains were adapted for Automatic Train Operation (ATO): the Woodford-Hainault section became the testing ground for ATO on the Victoria line. [10] Some Victoria line (1967 Stock) trains were also used to operate this section [10] and named