Is the Metropolitan line good?

The Metropolitan Line is a joy to ride - once you've got on the right branch. The Metropolitan Line averages 1.8 million Lost Customer Hours per year. Spanning from East to West, the Hammersmith and City Line comes fourth in terms of reliability. It has an average of 2.2 million Lost Customer Hours per year.



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Ranked: London's worst Tube lines for delays
  • District – 244 days with delays.
  • Piccadilly – 202 days with delays.
  • Circle – 176 days with delays.
  • Central – 166 days with delays.
  • Metropolitan – 143 days with delays.
  • Bakerloo – 129 days with delays.
  • Hammersmith & City – 125 days with delays.
  • Victoria – 97 days with delays.


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Revealed: These are London's most overcrowded Tube lines Statistics from mayor of London Sadiq Khan show that morning peak hour capacity on the London Underground is more than 100 per cent, with the Northern, Central and Jubilee lines the most crowded.

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Roding Valley Roding 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.

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The trains on the District, Hammersmith & City and the Metropolitan lines do have air conditioning. These lines are sub surface lines with larger tunnels and trains than the deeper tube lines, thus they have the space for the equipment and to expel the hot air.

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The Metropolitan line is the oldest underground railway in the world. The Metropolitan Railway opened in January 1863 and was an immediate success, though its construction took nearly two years and caused huge disruption in the streets.

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However, when we asked Londoners on Facebook to nominate the Tube station that confused them the most, there was one that kept coming to the surface. Yes, you've guessed it, it's the Bank and Monument station interchange folks! According to you it's about as easy to navigate as a labyrinth...

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It is the only Underground line with an express service at peak times; the resulting longer distance between stations means trains can achieve the system's highest speeds of over 60 miles per hour (100 km/h) on some sections.

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Why is it called the Metropolitan line? The line was named after its predecessor, the Metropolitan Railway, the first underground railway in the world.

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The Metropolitan Line is a Subsurface Line of the London Underground. It runs between Aldgate/Baker St and Amersham, with branches to Uxbridge, Chesham, and Watford. It has 34 Stations, and a very unique service pattern, with Fast, Semi-Fast, and All Stations services.

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Bakerloo line - 23.2km Running between the far north west of London all the way down to south of the river, via the West End, the Bakerloo line only serves 25 stations. Fun fact, the line was named because it runs through Baker Street and Waterloo.

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THE world's fastest metro system train is the Maglev or Transrapid which runs by way of magnetic levitation on the Longyang Road to Pudong International Airport line of the Shanghai Metro in China.

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What is the Night Tube?
  • A 24-hour service now runs on the Central, Victoria, Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines on Fridays and Saturdays.
  • Trains run every 10 or 20 minutes, depending on stations.
  • This new service runs alongside existing Night Bus and taxi services.


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The deepest station is Hampstead on the Northern line, which runs down to 58.5 metres. 15. In Central London the deepest station below street level is also the Northern line. It is the DLR concourse at Bank, which is 41.4 metres below.

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The Jubilee line is a line on the London Underground. It runs from Stanmore in north-west London to Stratford in east London. The color of the Jubilee line on tube maps is gray.

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