Roding ValleyRoding Valley is London's least used tube station.
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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.
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.
Annualised entry/exit counts were recorded at 270 stations in 2022. In 2022, King's Cross St Pancras was the busiest station on the network, used by over 69.94 million passengers, while Roding Valley was the least used with 259,271 passengers. Data for 2022 was published on 4 October 2023.
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.
It was over 130 years ago that King William Street station was built in December of 1890. It was the northern terminus of the world's first deep level electric Tube railway, also known as the City and South London Railway (C& SLR).
Transport for London opened its doors for boarding on the two new tube stations which make up the Northern Line Extension: Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station. Opened today – 20 September 2021 – it has been classed as the first major tube extension this century and will support around 25,000 new jobs.
This story therefore has a happy ending, because if you ever visit the Northbound platform of the Northern line at Embankment station, the voice of Oswald Laurence lives on to the present day.
Metropolitan lineOpened 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.
The four rail system was first used in the early twentieth century. The isolated traction current return allowed a train's position to be detected using DC track circuits, and reduced any earth leakage currents that could affect service pipes, telephone cables, or cast iron tunnel liners.
Some commuters will argue however, that the dirtiest tube lines are those that are the most polluted. Researchers at Innovate UK have found the underground lines with the most polluted air are the Northern, Bakerloo, Jubilee and Victoria. Got a story you think we should be covering? Email [email protected].