| Average Train Speeds | |
| Average scheduled train speed
(including station stops) |
33 km/h
(20.5 mph) |
| Depôts
The main depôts on each Underground Line are: |
|
| Bakerloo | Stonebridge Park |
| Central | West Ruislip/Hainault/White City |
| District | Ealing Common/Upminster |
| East London | New Cross |
| Hammersmith & City and Circle | Hammersmith |
| Jubilee | Neasden/Stratford Market |
| Metropolitan | Neasden |
| Northern | Golders Green/Morden |
| Piccadilly | Northfields/Cockfosters |
| Victoria | Northumberland Park |
| Waterloo & City | Waterloo |
| Depths | |
| Maximum depth below mean sea level | |
| Northern Line, just south of Waterloo station |
21.3m (70ft)
|
|
Maximum depths below ground level |
|
| Deep-level tube lines | |
| Northern Line,Holly Bush Hill, Hampstead |
67.4m (221ft)
|
|
Sub-surface cut & cover lines |
|
| East London Line,Wapping |
18.29m (60ft)
|
|
Average depths below ground level |
|
| Deep level tube lines |
24.4m (80ft)
|
| Sub-surface cut & cover lines |
7.3m (24ft)
|
|
Deepest station |
|
| Hampstead |
58.5m (192ft)
|
| Distances | ||
| Most distant places served | Approximate
distances
from central London |
|
| km | miles | |
| (north) Epping | 29 | 18 |
| (south) Morden | 16 | 10 |
| (east) Upminster | 29 | 18 |
| (west) Amersham | 43 | 27 |
|
Length of route run over |
391 |
244 |
| Length of route owned/managed | ||
| Single lines | 14 | 9 |
| Double lines | 342 | 213 |
| Triple lines | 5 | 3 |
| Quadruple lines & over | 30 | 19 |
| Totals | 391 | 244 |
|
Length of route in tunnel |
||
| sub-surface cut & cover | 32 | 20 |
| deep level tube | 139 | 86 |
| Totals | 171 | 106 |
| Proportion of total route in tunnel | 42% | |
| Longest continuous tunnel | km | miles |
| Northern Line, East Finchley to
Morden (via Bank) |
27.8 | 17.3 |
| Longest journey without change | ||
| Central Line, West Ruislip to Epping | 54.9 | 34.1 |
| Longest distance between stations | ||
| Metropolitan Line, Chesham to Chalfont & Latimer | 6.26 | 3.89 |
| Shortest distance between stations | ||
| Piccadilly Line, Leicester Square to Covent Garden | 0.26 | 0.16 |
| Electricity Supply | ||
| Generating stations | Installed capacity (MW)(megawatts) | Fuel consumption for year therms - (000s) |
| Lots Road, Chelsea | 180 | 3,566 (low distillate oil)
79,840 (natural gas) |
| Greenwich Gas Turbine | 103 | 369 (low distillate Plant oil) 4,681 (natural gas) |
| Total units used for Underground services | 830 million
(including units purchased) |
| Number of traction substations | 237 |
| Substations output voltage | 630v DC |
| Nominal track voltage | 630v DC |
| Elevation | |
| Highest point above mean sea level | |
| Metropolitan Line, beyond Amersham Station |
150m (500ft)
|
|
Highest station above mean sea level |
|
| Amersham |
147m (490ft)
|
|
Greatest elevation from ground level |
|
| Northern Line, Dollis Brook viaduct, over Dollis Road, Mill Hill |
18m (60ft)
|
| Escalators | |
| Number of escalators |
303
|
|
Station with the most escalators |
|
| Bank |
15 (plus two sloped moving walkways)
|
|
Longest escalator |
|
| Angel Station |
60m (197ft)
|
| with a vertical rise of |
27.5m (90ft)
|
| Shortest escalator | |
| Chancery Lane Station, |
9.1m (30ft)
|
| with a vertical rise of |
4.6m (15ft)
|
| Lifts | |
| Number of lifts |
64
|
|
Deepest lift shaft |
|
| Hampstead |
55.2m (181ft)
|
|
Shortest lift shaft |
|
| Chalk Farm |
9.3m (30.5ft)
|
| For line statistics see the pages for each line |
| Passengers | |
| Passenger journeys in 1998/99 |
866 million
|
| Passenger kilometres in 1998/99 |
6,716 million
|
| Pumps | |
| Number of drainage pumps |
782 pumps at 352 sites
|
| Rolling Stock | |
| Number of cars in the fleet |
3,923
|
| Surface stock |
1,179
|
| Tube stock |
2,644
|
| Stations | |
| Served |
274
|
| Managed |
251
|
|
Busiest stations (passengers starting/ending journeys or changing between lines) |
|
| Oxford Circus |
87.8 million
|
| Victoria |
87.7 million
|
| King's Cross |
66.6 million
|
| Baker Street |
44.9 million
|
| Liverpool Street |
44.6 million
|
|
Stations with the most platforms: |
|
| Moorgate |
10
|
| 2 Northern Line | |
| 4 Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and Circle Lines | |
| 4 Railtrack | |
|
Baker Street |
10 |
| 4 Metropolitan Line | |
| 2 Hammersmith & City and Circle Lines | |
| 2 Bakerloo Line | |
| 2 Jubilee Line | |
| Number of stations with car parks |
65
|
| Car parking spaces |
11,400
|
| Largest car park, Epping |
599 spaces
|