Victoria line

( Station : Green Park ;Design : Leaves by June Fraser)

Colour: Light blue - Lenght : 21 km - Stations: 16

Journeys each year : 174,000 mill. - First operated : 1968

Operating time : am. 5:30 - pm. 1:00

The Victoria line is a deep-level line running from the south (Zone 2) trough the middle of London ( Zone 1) too the north-east (Zone 3) of London. It terms of the average number of journeys per mile, is the busiest line on the network. The line has 43 trains, of which 37 trains are currently needed for service in the peak periods. Each is made up of two four-car units. The journey from Brixton (= start station of the line) to Walthamstow(= the end of the line) takes 32 minutes and trains run every two minutes during peak periods in each direction. The line is equipped with an Automatic Train Operation system (ATO); the train operator (driver) closes the train doors and presses a pair of "start" buttons, and if the way ahead is clear, the ATO drives the train at a safe speed to the next station and stops there. This system has been in place since the line opened in 1968. The Victoria Line was the first automatic passenger railway in the world!

History

The first deep-level Underground line to be built across central London since the "tube boom" of 1905-1907. The official opening ceremony took place at Victoria station on March 7, 1969, The Queen unveiled a commemorative plaque on the station concourse. After a short ceremony, she purchased a 5d (five old pence = 2.08p) ticket and travelled to Green Park.

London Underground - Piccadilly Line

The Piccadilly line:

... is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map. It is the third busiest line on the Underground network judged by the number of passengers transported per year. It is mainly a deep-level line running from the north to the west of London via Zone 1, with a number of surface sections in its westernmost parts. Out of the 53 stations served, 25 are underground.

The first section opened in 1869 and the Line- length is nearly 71 km long.

The beginnings:

The Piccadilly line began as the Great Northern Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (GNP&BR), one of several railways, whose chief director was Charles Tyson Yerkes, although he died before any of his schemes came to fruition.

The GN&PBR was formed from the merger of two earlier, but unbuilt, tube-railway companies taken over in 1901 by Yerkes' consortium: the Great Northern & Strand Railway (GN&SR) and the Brompton & Piccadilly Circus Railway (B&PCR). The GN&SR's and B&PCR's separate routes were linked with a new section of track between Piccadilly Circus and Holborn. A section of the Metropolitan District Railway's scheme for a deep-level tube line between South Kensington and Earl's Cour was also added in order to complete the route.

When the GNP&BR was formally opened on 15 December 1906, the line ran from the Great Northern Railway's station at Finsbury Park to the District Railway's station at Hammersmith.

On 30 November 30 1907, the short branch from Holborn to the Strand (later renamed Aldwych) opened, which had been planned as the last section of the GN&SR before the amalgamation with the B&PCR was made. Although built with twin tunnels, single-line shuttling became the norm from 1918 on, with the eastern tunnel closed to traffic.

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London Underground System Metropolitan Line

The Metropolitan Line was the first underground railway in the world and was opened on 10 January 1863. It has the couler TfL's Corporate Magent. It has 34 stadions and 5 of them are end station. The main line runs from Algate to Amersham, with branch lines to Uxbridge, Watford and Chesham. For the initial section of the line the rails are in tunnel for much of the way, beyond Baker Street, at Finchley Road the line runs in the open. Out of the 34 stations served, only 9 are underground. It is the oldest line and initially covered the bulk of the Underground system.

One stadion, the King's Cross St. Pancras stadion, connects Kings Cross and St Pancras.London King's Cross and London St Pancras are the principal National Rail services in the district. St Pancras is also the Eurostar terminus for International services to Paris and Brussels. Euston station is a half-mile to the west.Another stadion, the Moorgate station, is a London Underground and National Rail station in the City of London, on Moorgate, north of London Wall. At one time the station was named "Moorgate Street". It is terminus for suburban First Capital Connect services from Hertford, Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth, and was a former terminus for trains on the Thameslink line, also run by First Capital Connect until March 2009. It is the site of the Moorgate tube crash of 1975 in which 46 people were killed and 74 were injured.
The Underground station is on the City branch of the Northern line between Old Street and Bank and also on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, between Barbican and Liverpool Street.

The train of typ A Stock ran in service with unpainted aluminium bodywork for many years, since refurbishment the stock has received the now standard white and blue Underground livery, with red ends.

This is the Metropoltan Line of London

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