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Popular facts and figures
| Date opened | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Longest continuous tunnel | East Finchley to Morden (via Bank) – 27.8km |
| Station with most escalators | Waterloo – 23 |
| Longest escalator | Angel – 60 metres |
| Shortest escalator | Stratford – 4.1 metres |
Where is the longest escalator on the tube?
Angel station
With a vertical rise of 90 feet (27 m) and a length of 200 feet (61 m), the escalators at Angel station are the longest on the Underground, and the second longest in the United Kingdom (after one at Heathrow Terminal 5).
Which London station has longest escalator?
Angel
7. Angel has the Underground’s longest escalator at 60m/197ft, with a vertical rise of 27.5m. 8. The shortest escalator is Stratford, with a vertical rise of 4.1m.
What is the deepest tube line in London?
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).
What is the longest escalator in the world?
Introducing the Longest Escalator in the World!
800 metres or 2,600 feet! That’s the entire length of escalator street from beginning end. It’s why the Hong Kong escalator street is listed in the Guinness World Records Book as the “Longest outdoor covered escalator system in the world”.
Which tube line is the oldest?
Metropolitan line
Metropolitan line
Opened in 1863, The Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon was the first, urban, underground railway in the world.
Which tube station has the most steps?
However, there is one station that boasts nearly double the number of steps and an even more intense workout. Hampstead, North London has a staggering 326 steps that commuters have to battle. It is London’s deepest Tube station and the stairs may be its biggest landmark.
Which tube stations have no escalators?
Russell Square is one of the few deep level central London tube stations with only steps and lifts. The deepest tube station is Hampstead, where platforms are 58.5 metres below street level. Passenger uses either lifts or the 320 steps.
Which station has the longest platform in the UK?
The longest train station platform in England is in Gloucester. It is over 600 meters long – that’s as big as 6 football fields!
Which city has the longest escalator?
World. The longest escalators in the world are installed in deep underground stations of the Saint Petersburg Metro. The Ploshchad Lenina, Chernyshevskaya, and Admiralteyskaya stations have escalators up to 138 m (453 ft) long and 69 m (226 ft) high.
Which Tube line is hottest?
The Central Line is one of the hottest tube lines because of its age and depth beneath the ground.
What is the slowest Tube line?
4. Bakerloo is slowest line and Central is fastest.
Which Tube line is the noisiest?
The Victoria Line on the Tube network is a hotspot for noise complaints, according to new City Hall data.
What do the British call escalators?
Moving stairs are called escalators in the UK Elevators are called lifts so I’m sorry you are mistaken.
Which country has the longest escalator?
The Central–Mid-Levels escalator and walkway system in Hong Kong is the longest outdoor covered escalator system in the world. The system covers over 800 m (2,600 ft) in distance and traverses an elevation of over 135 m (443 ft) from bottom to top.
When was the last wooden escalator underground?
However, despite the years of technological improvements, you might be surprised to learn that the last wooden escalator on the London Underground was removed just eight years ago on March 10, 2014.
What is the most famous tube line?
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| Rank (2018) | Station | 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | King’s Cross St. Pancras | 95.03 |
| 2 | Victoria | 83.50 |
| 3 | Oxford Circus | 83.26 |
| 4 | Waterloo | 100.36 |
Why is there no underground in south London?
‘The Underground chose to run extensions into the open semi-rural districts to the north instead, where they’d have less competition and sell more tickets,’ says Murphy. So the lack of south London tube stations came about because, once upon a time, that side of the river was actually better connected.
Which Tube line is most reliable?
As the Underground’s shortest Tube Line, it is no surprise that the Waterloo and City Line comes first in terms of reliability – there’s much less that could go wrong.
What does Code 3 mean on the Tube?
Vomit
Code 3: Vomit
If you thought NASA owned the only ‘vomit comet’ you would be wrong as many Londoners can’t even cope with a tube journey late at night without puking.
Which tube line goes furthest west?
Furthest west – Reading
The furthest west location on the Tube map is Reading. The Metropolitan line did once reach Brill in Buckinghamshire, even further west but again, like Verney Junction, it never appeared on the Tube map.