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.
Some of you may remember it. Before we go there St Johns Wood is still the only station which does not inchude any of the letters from MACKEREL, and Knightsbridge is still the one with the most consecutive consonants.
Is the only Underground station that doesn t have any letters balham?
Balham fun fact: Did you know that Balham is the only underground station that doesn't have any letters of the word 'underground' in it? You're welcome!
American Tried To Pronounce Hard London Underground Stations!!
What tube station has no letters from mackerel?
John's Wood is the only London Underground station to have no letters in common with the word mackerel? The same is also true for the words paperclip and algebra.
Roding Valley is the most lightly used station on the Underground. It is also one of the three tube stations not to have ticket barriers. As of 2025 it is also the only tube station on the London Underground network to have a single ticket machine, as opposed to the minimum of two elsewhere.
Our network includes 272 functioning Tube stations, but at least another 40 Overground and Underground stations exist that are no longer used for travel.
What is the only station on the London Underground with a station in its name?
In December 2015, TfL confirmed that the station would be named "Battersea Power Station". This means it is the only station on the Underground with the word "station" in its official name.
It also has the only one-syllable station (Bank), and the network's highest point – the Dollis Brook Viaduct, near Mill Hill East, where trains run 59 feet above the road.
The bridge became the name of the area and the coined word "Knightsbridge" has the most consecutive consonants (6) out of any word in the English language.
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).
At a whopping 58 letters long, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is officially the longest train station name in the UK. In fact, it's the longest place name in all of Europe, and only second in the world – thanks to an 85-letter town name in New Zealand.
What is the oldest station in the London Underground?
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.
North End tube station. North End (commonly referred to as Bull and Bush) is a never-completed underground station, on the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR, now part of the London Underground's Northern line).
Due to resource and space constraints, there are no current plans to extend the provision of toilets to those stations that do not already have them. However, information on the nearest public toilet is available at all stations.
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.
It is both the northernmost and westernmost station in the system. The distance between Chesham and Chalfont & Latimer is the longest between adjacent stations on the network, at 3.89 miles (6.26 km).
