Which Tube station is furthest 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.



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The Central Line was opened in 1900 and is forty six miles long, making it the longest line of the system, between the stations of West Ruislip and Epping. The Central Line is one of only two lines which have stations outside the boundaries of Greater London.

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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.

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The network has expanded to 11 lines with 250 miles (400 km) of track. However, the Underground does not cover most southern parts of Greater London; there are only 33 Underground stations south of the River Thames. The system's 272 stations collectively accommodate up to 5 million passenger journeys a day.

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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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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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