Does the Overground ever go Underground?

A peculiarity is that at Whitechapel the London Overground runs below the London Underground (though there are other parts of the network where this occurs, e.g. the Watford Junction to Euston route between Kenton and South Kenton – shared with the Bakerloo line – passes under the Metropolitan line between Northwick ...



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Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that it is moving ahead with plans to extend the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) and the West London Orbital (WLO), part of the London Overground. Both projects were previously thought to be at danger of being mothballed due to the pandemic's impact on TfL.

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King's Cross St Pancras Underground station links six London Underground lines – Circle, Piccadilly, Hammersmith & City, Northern, Metropolitan and Victoria. This makes it the biggest interchange on the London Underground, and one of the busiest.

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Bakerloo, Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo & City lines. These are all something called a “Deep Level” or “Deep Tube” line. This means they're circular tunnels bored deep underground.

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London Overground remains one of the most reliable rail networks in the country with its Public Performance Measure Moving Annual Average (the industry's key long-term performance indicator) being 94.7, against a national score of 88.5.

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Hampstead is the deepest station under the surface at 58.5 metres (64.0 yards). However, it is not the deepest below sea level as the station's surface building is near the top of a hill.

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Metropolitan line Opened in 1863, The Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon was the first, urban, underground railway in the world. An extension from Baker Street to Swiss Cottage in 1868, however, put an end to this claim to fame.

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It retains the familial appearance of its siblings, and uses a bold and assurant purple as its modal colour. The rationale for the selection of these colours is as follows: Elizabeth line Purple - Modal colour and the primary way of quickly identifying the Elizabeth line service across mutiple touchpoints.

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Perhaps the biggest and most obvious difference are the trains themselves. While the London Underground lines stock are either S7 or S8, the Elizabeth Line uses Class 345 trains. The Elizabeth Line's 345 stock are based on the Aventa similar, but improved, to that used by other British Rail trains.

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The Gare du Nord in Paris is the busiest train station in Europe, and the world outside Japan. It is estimated that approximately 214.2 million passengers go through the station each year.

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The Night Tube and London Overground Night Service, often referred to simply as Night Tube, is a service pattern on the London Underground (Tube) and London Overground systems which provides through-the-night services on Friday and Saturday nights on the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly, and Victoria lines, and ...

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The key factor, and one that does not affect the Underground, is freight. The need to balance trains carrying people and vehicles carrying goods risks slowing the Overground, especially in northern parts. The northern section of the network, connecting Stratford to Richmond and Clapham Junction, is packed with freight.

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