List of London Underground stations
The London Underground is a metro system in the United Kingdom that serves Greater London and adjacent districts of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Its first section opened in 1863,[1] making it the oldest underground metro system in the world. The system operates below ground in central London but generally runs on the surface in the outlying suburbs. Approximately 55 per cent of the network is above ground.[2] The system comprises 11 lines – Bakerloo, Central, Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria, Waterloo & City – serving 270 stations. The system is operated by Transport for London (TfL).
Most of the system is north of the River Thames with stations in the City of London or one of twenty-seven London boroughs.[note 1] Stations at the north-eastern end of the Central line are in the Epping Forest district of Essex and stations at the north-western end of the Metropolitan line are in the Three Rivers and Watford districts of Hertfordshire and the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire.
There are two instances where two separate stations share the same name; there is one Edgware Road station on the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines and another on the Bakerloo line, just as there is one Hammersmith station on the Piccadilly and District lines and another on the Hammersmith & City and Circle lines. Although the Hammersmith & City line platforms at Paddington are on the other side of the mainline station from the platforms of the other Underground lines, it is treated as a single station. It is currently shown this way on the Tube map, but has been shown as two stations at times. Four stations have interchanges with the Docklands Light Railway: Bank, Canning Town, West Ham and Stratford.
Transport for London currently plans to extend its services to six additional stations by 2018 as a result of extensions to the Metropolitan and Northern lines. One Metropolitan line station, Watford, will close due to its branch being diverted on to a new route. Two of the planned Metropolitan line stations, Watford High Street and Watford Junction, are currently served by National Rail and were previously served by the Bakerloo line.
Stations
Listed for each station is the line or lines serving it, the local authority and London Travelcard zone in which it is located,[note 2] the date it and any earlier mainline service opened, previous names and passenger usage statistics in millions per year.
Future stations
Transport for London is currently planning extensions to the Metropolitan and Northern lines that will add six new stations to the network: four in Watford and two in Wandsworth. One current station, Watford on the Metropolitan line, will close as the branch that it is on will be diverted on to a new route.
Station | Line(s) | Local Authority | Zone(s)[†] | Planned opening |
Other name(s) | Details |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ascot Road | Metropolitan | Watford | Template:Ctr | Template:Ctr | ||
Battersea | Northern | Wandsworth | Template:Ctr | Template:Ctr | ||
Nine Elms | Northern | Wandsworth | Template:Ctr | Template:Ctr | ||
Watford High Street[note 4] | Metropolitan | Watford | Template:Ctr | Template:Ctr | ||
Watford Hospital | Metropolitan | Watford | Template:Ctr | Template:Ctr | Vicarage Road, Watford General Hospital Proposed[5] | |
Watford Junction[note 4] | Metropolitan | Watford | Template:Ctr | Template:Ctr |
See also
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- List of former and unopened London Underground stations
- List of the busiest London Underground stations
- List of London railway stations
- List of Docklands Light Railway stations
- Timeline of the London Underground
- Category:Tube stations in London by borough
- Category:Railway stations in London by borough
Notes and references
Notes
- * ^ Where more than one line serves a station, lines are listed in the order of opening. In some cases stations were first served by one underground line but later transferred to another:
- a ^ First served by Metropolitan line – Circle line services separately identified in 1949.[3]
- b 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 First served by Metropolitan line – Circle line services separately identified in 1949, Hammersmith & City line services separately identified in 1990.[3]
- c 1 2 3 4 5 First served by Metropolitan line – District line service added in stages, Circle line services separately identified in 1949.[3]
- d 1 2 3 First served by Metropolitan line – Hammersmith & City line services separately identified in 1990.[3]
- e 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 First served by Metropolitan line – service transferred to Bakerloo line in 1939 and then to the Jubilee line in 1979.[3]
- f 1 2 First served by Metropolitan line – Bakerloo line service added in 1939 which was transferred to the Jubilee line in 1979.[3]
- g 1 2 First served by Bakerloo line – service transferred to Jubilee line in 1979.[3]
- h 1 2 3 4 5 First served by District line – service transferred to Piccadilly line in 1933.[3]
- i 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 First served by District line – Circle line services separately identified in 1949.[3]
- j 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First served by District line – Metropolitan line service added in stages which was transferred to Hammersmith & City line in 1990.[3]
- k 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 First served by Metropolitan line – District line service added in 1910 which was transferred to Piccadilly line in 1933.[3]
- l 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 First served by District line – service transferred to Piccadilly line in 1964.[3]
- m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 First served by Metropolitan line – Hammersmith & City line services separately identified in 1990,[3] Circle line service added in 2009.[6]
- † ^ Some stations are assigned to multiple zones. People travelling through these stations may treat the station as in whatever zone makes their fare the least expensive.
- ^ Six London boroughs (Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Kingston, Lewisham and Sutton) are not served by the Underground. The London Borough of Hackney has two stations on its border.
- ^ The London Underground uses a system of nine concentric zones for the calculation of fares between stations. Fares between any station in one zone and any station in another are the same, irrespective of the start and end points of the journey or the route used.
- ^ The other names listed may have been used previously on station signage, on network maps, in advertisements or in planning material – Harris, Cyril M. (2006) [1977]. What's in a name?. Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-241-0. In the early years, slightly different names were sometimes employed contemporaneously for different purposes or on different parts of a station. A number of stations continue to bear obsolete early names where these form part of the physical architecture. For example, the platform wall tiling at Arsenal, Hampstead, Marylebone and Warren Street still carries the original names of these stations.
- ^ a b Served by Bakerloo line trains between 1917 and 1982.
References
- ^ "History". Transport for London. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
- ^ "Key facts". Transport for London. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History. London: Douglas Rose/Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-219-4. OCLC 59556887.
- ^ All Usage statistics (total entry plus exits) are in millions per year for 2011 (Blackfriars station was closed during this period) – "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures (2007–2017)". London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Archived from the original (XLSX) on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018..
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Circle Line extended to the west". BBC News. 5 March 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
Further reading
- Connor, J.E. (1999). London's Disused Underground Stations. Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-250-X. OCLC 57630283.
- Gillham, John C. (2001). The Waterloo & City Railway. Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-525-5. OCLC 59402958.
- Lee, Charles E. (1973). The Bakerloo line, a Brief History. London: London Transport. OCLC 59998073.
- Lee, Charles E. The Central line, a Brief History. London: London Transport. OCLC 3470185.
- Lee, Charles E. (1973). The District line, a Brief History. London: London Transport. OCLC 59998301.
- Lee, Charles E. (1976). The East London Line and the Thames Tunnel, a Brief History. London: London Transport. OCLC 24459581.
- Lee, Charles E. (1972). The Metropolitan line, a Brief History. London: London Transport. OCLC 59998061.
- Lee, Charles E. (1973). The Northern line, a Brief History. London: London Transport. OCLC 59998137.
- Lee, Charles E. (1973). 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. Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-84354-023-1. OCLC 60794863.
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