The London underground

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The Tube map is a schematic transit map of the lines and stations of London's public rapid transit railway systems, namely the London Underground (commonly known as the Tube, hence the name), Docklands Light Railway, London Overground and Emirates Air Line, as well as being incorporated into Greater London connections maps.

As a schematic diagram, it shows not necessarily the geographic but rather the relative positions of stations along the lines, stations' connective relations with each other and fare zones. The basic design concepts have been widely adopted for other network maps around the world, especially that of mapping topologically rather than geographically. The first underground line opened in 1863, celebrating its 150th birthday in 2013. In in the first year 40 million journeys were made on the system and that figure has now exceeded one billion. With 11 different lines serving 270 stations, over 249 miles (402 km) of track, on which up to 500 trains can be in operation during peak hours, its a complex network that requires thousand of pairs of skilled hand to keep it going daily.

Facts about the underground Task 2 Part 2

Number of miles/km travelled by each Tube train each year: 114,500 miles/184,269km Total number of passengers carried each year: 1,229 million Average train speed: 33km per hour/20.5mph Length of network: 402km/249 miles Proportion of the network that is in tunnels: 45 percent Longest continuous tunnel: East Finchley to Morden(via Bank) 27.8km/17.25 miles Total number of escalators: 426 Station with most escalators: Waterloo - 23 Longest escalator: Angel - 60m/197ft, with a vertical rise of 27.5m/90ft Shortest escalator: Stratford, with a vertical rise of 4.1m Total number of lifts, including four stair lifts: 167 Four passenger conveyors - two at Waterloo and twoat Bank

Deepest lift shaft: Hampstead - 55.2m/181ft Shortest lift shaft: King's Cross - 2.3m/7.5ft Vertical lifting platforms highest rise: Walthamstow1.98m/6.5ft Vertical lifting platforms shortest: Hainault0.64m/2.1ft Carriages in London Underground's (LU's) fleet: 4134 Total number of stations served: 270 Total number of stations managed: 260 Total number of staff: 19,000 approx Stations with the most platforms: Baker Street - 10.Moorgate has 10 platforms but only six are used by LU (two are used by First Capital Connect and two were formerly used by Thames link services) Busiest stations: During the three-hour morning peak, London's busiest Tube station is Waterloo, with 57,000 people entering. The busiest station in terms of passengers each year is also Waterloo with 82 million The Underground name first appeared on stations in 1908 London Underground has been known as the Tube since 1890, when the first deep-level electric railway line was opened The Tube's world-famous logo, 'the roundel' (a red circle crossed by a horizontal blue bar), first appeared in 1908