What is the most and least used tube station?

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.



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Which London Tube line is the busiest?
  • Central, 260.9 million.
  • Northern, 252.3 million.
  • Jubilee, 213.6 million.
  • Piccadilly, 210.2 million.
  • District, 208.3 million.
  • Victoria, 200.0 million.
  • Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, 114.6 million.
  • Bakerloo, 111.1 million.


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Whatever direction you're coming from –whether via car, tube or walk – you'll know you're reaching King's Cross St Pancras when traffic will start slowing down and you'll even have to queue to cross the road. As such, seeing it top the chart as London's most stressful station is certainly not a surprise.

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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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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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He added: 'The Central line has the loudest section out of all of the tube lines, and it basically gets as loud as almost 110dB. ' The Jubilee, Central, Victoria and Bakerloo lines were also recorded to be louder than 105dB on ten different occasions.

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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.

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This means that the slowest line of them all is the Circle Line which only has an average speed of 24.31 Km per hour. This means that the Circle Line is almost 20 Km per hour slower than the Metropolitan Line on average.

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The Central line is a London Underground line that runs through central London, from Epping, Essex, in the north-east to Ealing Broadway and West Ruislip in west London. Printed in red on the Tube map, the line serves 49 stations over 46 miles (74 km), making it the longest line on the Underground.

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Its history is linked to both the oldest line on the Underground, the Metropolitan, and the youngest, the Jubilee.

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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.

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The Waterloo & City and the Jubilee were the coolest lines, while the Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City attracted fewest complaints. TfL said air-conditioned trains were in use on 40 per cent of the Underground network. New trains due to be introduced on the Piccadilly line from 2025 will also have air conditioning.

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The deepest station is Hampstead on the Northern line, which runs down to 58.5 metres.

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The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is a driverless train network that serves parts of east and south-east London. These trains have interchanges with the London Underground at some major Tube stations, including Bank, Tower Gateway (Tower Hill) and Canary Wharf.

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The most spectacular railway stations in the UK
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  • Norwich Station, Norfolk.


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