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The Piccadilly line, a Brief History. London: London Transport. OCLC 59998126. Menear, Laurence (1983). London's Underground Stations: a social and architectural study. Midas Books. ISBN 978-0-85936-124-8. OCLC 12695214. Wolmar, Christian (2004). The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever ...
The Tube Challenge is the competition for the fastest time to travel to all London Underground stations, tracked by Guinness World Records since 1960. The goal is to visit all the stations on the system, but not necessarily using all the lines; participants may connect between stations on foot, or by using other forms of public transport.
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.
The West London line, Watford DC line and Gospel Oak to Barking line (former British Rail/Silverlink lines) were all added to the standard map in 2007, when they were taken over by London Overground, and all are shown as an orange double stripe. The Northern City Line appeared on the original 1908 map as the Great Northern and City Railway. It ...
The overhaul involves one of the biggest changes in the history of the capital’s Tube map. London Overground lines have all been coloured orange on TfL maps since the network was created in 2007 ...
The London Underground is a rapid transit system in the United Kingdom that serves London and the neighbouring counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Its first section opened in 1863. Annualised entry/exit counts were recorded at 270 stations in 2023, although more stations exist now.
In 1994, as part of the process of privatisation of British Rail, the Waterloo & City line, which up to then was the only deep tube line in London not under the control of London Regional Transport, was transferred to the operational control of London Underground, whereupon it became fully part of the Underground network, meaning that following ...
London Underground lines. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. A. Automatic London Underground lines (4 P) C.