The Waterloo & City line, colloquially known as The Drain, is a shuttle line of the London Underground that runs between Waterloo and Bank stations with no intermediate stops.
With 44 stops across 48.5 miles, L.A. Metro's A Line is the longest light rail line on the planet. The new Foothill extension opening this summer will add service to Pomona.
The Jubilee Line ranks worst as of this year at 6.39 per cent, followed closely by the Central and Bakerloo Lines, at 5.85 and 4.26 per cent respectively.
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But the Northern line is loud, more crowded than any other (5.9 million people per week), has the worst crime rate, and has five of the 10 longest staircases across the network. Points were also deducted for the clunky branching of the line through central London, a frustration that no other line endures in Zone One.
Which is the BEST tube line? In terms of which line is specifically the best, when we asked Londoners directly, the Elizabeth Line again comes out on top, with 29% of the vote. The Victoria line comes a distant second, on 9%, followed by the Jubilee line and London Overground on 7% each.
Bosses say 40% of trains across the network have air conditioning, including the Circle, Hammersmith & City, District and Metropolitan lines, which have the coolest temperatures (19.3C) on average.
Journey back to the origins of the Underground, right where it all began. When it opened on 10 January 1863 as part of the Metropolitan Railway, Baker Street was home to the launch of a revolutionary idea – carrying passengers beneath Victorian London's congested streets.
There are only two Tube station names that contain all 5 vowels – “Mansion House” and “South Ealing”. The oldest underground line in the world is the Metropolitan line, which opened on 10 January 1863. The first escalator was introduced at Earls Court in 1911.
Roding Valley tube station. Roding Valley is a London Underground station. It is situated in Buckhurst Hill in the Epping Forest district of Essex. The station is on the Hainault loop of the Central line between Chigwell and Woodford stations.
Hampstead is the deepest station below the surface, at 58.5 metres (192 ft), as its surface building is near the top of a hill, and the Jubilee line platforms at Westminster are the deepest platforms below sea level at 32 metres (105 ft).
It is easy to spot an old Roman road on a map because they are mostly straight (for example, the A5 was part of the Roman route called 'Watling Street').
London Underground Waterloo & City Line is a Transport for London operated tube line in London, England. Running between Waterloo and Bank, it is coloured turquoise on the Tube map, it is by far the shortest line on the Underground network at 2.37 km (1.47 miles), with an end-to-end journey lasting just four minutes.
The Northern line is a London Underground line that runs between North London and South London. It is printed in black on the Tube map. It carries more passengers per year than any other Underground line – around 340 million in 2019 – making it the busiest tube line in London.
Roding Valley is London's least used tube station. Roding Valley is found on the central line. Roding Valley transports around the same number of passengers in 1 year, that London Waterloo does in 1 day.
Hampstead and Covent Garden tube stations (London, England) Hampstead tube station 193ft underground (the deepest in London), over 320 steps up a spiral staircase. If you commuted for 7 months and took these steps every day by the end you'd have climbed the equivalent of Mt. Everest!
Equally as interesting is the data on London's least-used stations. Sudbury and Harrow Road was London's quietest railway station, with just 18,680 entries and exits, followed by Drayton Green, South Greenford, Sudbury Hill Harrow, Morden South, Birkbeck, Couldson Town, Reedham, Castle Bar Park and Crews Hill.
King's Cross St Pancras is the toughest tube station to navigate, according to a Mastercard study that quizzed 1,000 commuters. Here's the top 10: King's Cross St Pancras. Bank and Monument.
With a vertical rise of 90 ft (27 m) and a length of 200 ft (61 m), the escalators at Angel station are the longest on the Underground, and in the United Kingdom.
