What is the quickest tube line?

As well as having the highest top speed, the Metropolitan line also has the highest average speed - 28.3mph. The second highest average speed is the Victoria line (25.2mph) followed by the Jubilee line (24.3mph). Meanwhile the slowest line is the Circle line which crawls along at an average speed of 14.7mph.



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Victoria The Victoria Line is teeming with bacteria, having the highest number of germs of all the Tube lines.

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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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Opening in 1979 the Jubilee line today began life as a branch of the Metropolitan Railway in 1932, before being transferred to the Bakerloo line in the 1930s. The Jubilee line is the youngest line on the Underground network, before the opening of the Elizabeth line in 2018.

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Revealed: London's busiest tube stations in 2023
  • King's Cross (6,383,000 passengers)
  • Tottenham Court Road (4,843,000)
  • Waterloo (4,837,000)
  • Liverpool Street (4,742,000)
  • London Bridge (4,703,000)
  • Stratford (4,528,000)
  • Paddington (4,280,000)
  • Oxford Circus (4,112,000)


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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 maximum speed currently possible in the UK is 186mph, achieved by Eurostar trains on the HS1 line between London and the Channel Tunnel. The HS1 line is used by Eurostar services and Javelin commuter services from Kent, although the latter have a max speed of 140mph.

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Baker Street is a London Underground station at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster. It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world's first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863.

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Redbridge is often described as the shallowest deep level (as opposed to cut-and-cover) station on the network, as it is only 5.2 metres (17 ft) beneath the surface.

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Of the stations that have stairs, Hampstead Station has the most steps (320 in total).

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Moorgate crash On 28 February 1975 a southbound Northern City Line train crashed into the tunnel end beyond the platform at Moorgate station. Forty-three people were killed in what was the greatest loss of life on the Underground in peacetime.

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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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The Elizabeth Line offers a reasonable, more budget-friendly option for travelling to Heathrow. It's likely to be the best train to Heathrow if you're coming from East or Central London, as it avoids the need to change at Paddington. It's also the cheapest option if you need to travel at the last-minute.

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The average speed on the Underground is 20.5 mph (33.0 km/h). Outside the tunnels of central London, many lines' trains tend to travel at over 40 mph (64 km/h) in the suburban and countryside areas. The Metropolitan line can reach speeds of 62 mph (100 km/h).

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