Waterloo train station is a central London terminus and is considered London's largest and busiest station. Waterloo serves areas south and south-west of London including Hampton Court, Epsom, Guildford, Weymouth, Southampton and Portsmouth.
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.
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.
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.
Chesham station is 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Charing Cross, making it the furthest London Underground station from central London. It is both the northernmost and westernmost station in the system.
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.
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].
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.
The system's shortest distance between two street level stations is Charing Cross and Embankment on the Northern Line, with a distance of just one hundred yards. The system's most southerly station is situated at Morden on the Northern Line.
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.
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.