London Underground, better known as the Tube, has 11 lines covering 402km and serving 272 stations. The Tube handles up to five million passenger journeys a day. At peak times, there are more than 543 trains whizzing around the Capital.
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Roding ValleyRoding Valley is London's least used tube station. Roding Valley is found on the central line. Roding Valley transports around the same number of passengers in 1 year, that London Waterloo does in 1 day.
The Lee tunnel is the deepest tunnel ever built in London. It includes five shafts that run as deep as 95 m (312 ft) and need to handle groundwater pressures as high as 8 bar.
THE world's deepest metro, underground station is the Arsenalna Station on the Kiev Metro in Ukraine, at 107 meters deep. The world's largest metro station is Union Square Station on the Dubai Metro in the United Arab Emirates which covers an area of 67,056 square meters.
Find out more about London's disused Underground stations. Our network includes 272 functioning Tube stations, but at least another 40 Overground and Underground stations exist that are no longer used for travel.
But, there's a secret tunnel in East London that's even deeper than the Tube, and many Londoners don't know it exists. The Lee Tunnel, also known as the Stratford to East Ham deep tunnel, is 80 metres below the surface, and runs for 4.3 miles. This tunnel is rarely seen by people.
Is Paris Metro older than London? London is the great grandaddy of underground rail systems, opening the first line in the world in 1863. Paris, the young scamp, came along in 1900 – it was actually only the second subway in the world at this point.