which tube station has the most platforms

Which stations have the shortest distance between them? Its platforms are, on average, 22 metres below sea level. –, The Tube’s track is crossed by Kew Gardens Station Footbridge, a Grade II listed feature in its own right – it was designed specifically to prevent smoke from steam trains getting into people’s clothing. –, For 2 weeks in September 2016, all of the adverts used in the station were replaced by photos of cats. –, On the columns at Temple station, there are small temple-shaped emblems at the bases. 37. OOIU (zone 1) — busiest night tube station. Don't forget that London has a plethora of buses, all of which have priority areas for strollers and step free access if required. We asked Park.Ride.London. –, Has a “living wall” wall of plants outside the station, the only one in the underground network. It became disused after strike action from the power station supplying it caused it to shut down, and they simply never re-opened it, even when the power came back on. –, During the Second World War, the electricity grid control room for the entire of London and Southeast England was housed here, in the lift shaft. –, Is situated on the hill that’s thought to be the inspiration for the nursery rhyme The Grand Old Duke of York. –, At the turn of the 20th Century the station was going to be replaced with “a type of subterranean monorail roller coaster”, but plans were (sadly) abandoned. During the war, some stations (now mostly disused) were converted into government offices: a station called Down Street was used for meetings of the Railway Executive Committee, as well as for the War Cabinet before the Cabinet War Rooms were built. Most have 24 hour CCTV, cost from as little as £1.50 a day, and avoid the congestion charge. 67. The American talk show host Jerry Springer was born at East Finchley during the Second World War: his mother had taken shelter in the station from an air raid. –, Has the only remaining wooden escalators on the network, bricked up behind a wall. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. 123. Or at least an old police call box can. –, The name literally means “peasant’s wood” (and currently has one of the highest qualities of life in the country). It was stopped within days after complaints from people saying they felt ill. 145. –. The island platform at Clapham Common, by zen whisk in the Londonist Flickr pool. –, Named after a nearby pub, which itself was name-dropped in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. (…Technically making it a used platform?) –, Has 23 escalators, the most of any station on the network. –, The steepest gradient on the tube network at 3.6%. –, Is built directly on top of a vast plague pit, where 1000’s of bodies are apparently buried. 71.The Underground was first used for air raid shelters in September 1940. 53. The fastest line is the Metropolitan, with trains moving at speeds of over 60mph. –, A story is told of how a year after the opening of the station in 1926, a group of ladies was directed to it by Croxley’s policeman P.C. 30. –, Has the Underground’s longest escalator at 60m/197ft, with a vertical rise of 27.5m. Photos taken at Canning Town station during Monday’s morning rush hour showed shocking scenes. Favourite answer Waterloo, with no less than 28 mainline platforms: 19 in the main (domestic) part of the station, 5 in the International (Eurostar) part, and 4 at Waterloo … 36. –, Originally designed to transport livestock to Smithfield market – there are still cattle ramps onto the street West Smithfield for this purpose. –, The name ‘Turnpike Lane’ refers to a toll gate erected there in 1767. The ground below the track was excavated during the day (with the rails held up by a wooden trestle while trains still ran over them), and 900 workmen simultaneously eased the rails down after the station closed. –, Whitechapel is the only place on the network where the Overground runs below the Underground. A newspaper even offered a cash reward to anyone who dared spend the night there in the ’60s amid rumours of a mummy ghost – nobody took them up on it. Today it has 24 platforms which, according to some sources, cater to an average of 150,000 passengers per day and a total of 54 million passengers per year. 9. 12. –, A Tudor-era bowling ball was unearthed during the Crossrail excavations under the station. A small section of the spiral escalator is in the Acton depot. Major changes took place in 1891-93 and 1910-12. Penalty fares were only introduced in 1994. In order to do this, the entire track had to be lowered by 2m in one night. The first section of the Underground ran between Paddington (Bishop's Road) and Farringdon Street. This was part of the original Metropolitan Rail… by The Streets. –, Its street-level entrances are in different boroughs: three are in Hackney, and one is in Haringey. It was the first station to have all-female staff. And therefore not related to the firearms, either. 54. –, It’s the station in 1998’s Sliding Doors where reality changes because of a missed train. 35. –, Analysis of earth removed when tunnelling towards the station revealed that its site was the southern limit of a glacier which covered Britain in one of the Ice Ages. It was re-sited in 1871. –, Platforms 8 & 9 still contain some of the pre-roundel logo designs. The total number of stations served on the network is 270. 88. –, Has the shortest lift shaft on the network, at just 2.3 metres. To become a curator or writer, please read this. For example, Foggy Bottom only needs 1 mezzanine-to-platform elevator, since it has an island platform. London Underground transferred from the control of the Government to Transport for London (TfL) on July 15, 2003. –, The station is said to have one of the highest levels of ‘pigeon customers’ in the whole London Underground network. One of the levels in Tomb Raider 3 is set in the disused Aldwych tube station, featuring scenes of Lara Croft killing rats. –, Is the only station on the entire London Underground network with the word “London” in its name. Can’t Stanmore of these puns? (in percent) 14. There is a morning and evening peak on the underground when the tube trains, tube stations and platforms are extremely busy. The so-called Screaming Spectre is believed to have been a milliner. –, On 8 December 1954 the station was damaged by a tornado which ripped off the roof and injured six people. Baker Street station is the combination of three separate stations, with several booking offices throughout its operational years. This was changed into a break room for drivers. –, Mahatma Gandhi lived at 20 Barons Court Road, a few yards from the station, while studying law. Jubilee Line TfL also produce an Avoiding Stairs Tube guide. –, Station staff regularly participate in Transport for London’s annual Underground in Bloom competition, and in 2010 won first prize in the Fruit and Vegetable category, for their sweetcorn and strawberries. –, Until 2008, it was also called Shepherd’s Bush until it was renamed to avoid confusion. The Waterloo & City line has the fewest scheduled for peak period service at just five. This might not sound like much, but if you take the stairs at some of London's deepest underground tube stations, the cumulative results over the course of a year could hugely noticeable. 79. In August 2017, 10 platforms were shut for nearly a month for the £800m project to help up capacity. –, Was the test site for the UK’s first underground farm, housed in its deep level bomb shelter. –, It’s buried in soil so acidic that the cast iron tunnel linings had to be replaced in the ’90s due to corrosion. –, London Underground’s standard £4.80 single cash fare for the journey between here and Leicester Square equates to £29.81 a mile, making the fare for this particular journey more expensive per mile than the Orient Express. The London Tube … 64.There are only two tube station names that contain all five vowels: Mansion House, and South Ealing. 84. 31. According to 18th Century writer Aaron Hill, prior to the station being put in, Plaistow was “a whole day’s coach ride” to Westminster. The tuppence fare lasted until the end of June 1907 when a threepenny fare was introduced for longer journeys. –, Debden station was the setting for the Victorian ballad “The Chigwell Stationmaster’s Wife”. But Farragut West needs 2 mezzanine-to-platform elevators, since it has side platforms. 106. 18. 94. –, Between South Kensington and Knightsbridge, the tube steers away from following the road above it in order to avoid a large plague pit. –, Northala park next door features four man-made hills, constructed from the waste rubble of Wembley stadium. Suicide on the London Underground has been an issue since the Underground (also known as the 'Tube') opened in the 19th century. –, On all four platforms, film sprockets are painted down the entire length and on the top and bottom of the display area (blue on the Piccadilly line platforms, and black on the Northern line platforms), due to the four premiere cinemas in Leicester Square. It involves a person intentionally jumping into an oncoming train's path so that the impact kills them. The Tube Challenge record did not appear in the Guinness book of records until its eighth edition in 1960, when it stood at 18 hours, 35 minutes. –, Made predominantly from fittings taken from other stations in the North of England. Some time around 2011, the Central Line overtook the Northern line to become London’s busiest. –, The original 1923 station was rebuilt by 1940 – and it’s now Grade II listed. –, Technically the oldest station on the network: the mainline station was built in 1837, predating Baker Street by 24 years. 59. 142. 39. Another station that is believed to be haunted is Farringdon. The River Westbourne was funnelled above a platform on Sloane Square in a large iron pipe suspended from girders. –, Not actually on Goodge Street – it’s closer to both Tottenham Street and Whitfield Street. 127. Any more, and the tower would have cracked and possibly collapsed. The Underground helped over 200,000 children escape to the countryside during the Second World War. –, The tube’s first rail disaster happened here – 4 people died in 1866 and the trains were running again within half an hour. 48. –, Thanks to the creamery next door, it used to run daily ‘milk trains’ entirely filled with the white stuff. 114. An estimated half a million mice live in the Underground system. –, Designed by the same architect as the Millennium Dome. –, Very nearly wasn’t built because it might have disturbed the cricket played at Lords. –, Brent Cross station was named after the shopping centre when it opened nearby in 1976, not the other way around. A printing error in a map of the area led to ‘Gnats Cross’ becoming Gants Cross. 90. –, In 2009, a Pyrenean Mountain Dog named Rufus became a minor celebrity for his daily commute from Pinner to Baker Street due to his enormous size. It’s on Ladbroke Grove. 119. It was originally a swamp filled with annoying, buzzing gnats. A photo posted by bologna|2001|galvani (@_f_r_e_0_1_) on Aug 18, 2016 at 4:53am PDT. –, The first ever Tesco was opened just down the road from the station, in 1929. Recurrent architectural structures, an array of surfaces and an abundance of beautifully designed furniture, lighting and details all make London’s iconic 150-year-old transport system pretty special. –, The tunnels between Wanstead and Gants Hill to the east were turned into munitions factories during WW2. 47. Created in 1931, Harry Beck's Tube map is a classic of map design and has been copied around the world. well cn't say i haven't sat down with a tube map and counted them all up but i would say the picaddily line as it runs right from south west to north east. 1961 marked the end of steam and electric haulage of passenger trains on the London Underground. –, The busiest station to serve a single line, and it’s had at least one wedding celebrated in it. London Waterloo has 130 automated ticket gate and 24 platforms. 17. 77. Footage shows packed platforms at jammed London tube station. –, Has the shortest escalator on the network, with a vertical rise of 4.1m. –, Suffered heavy aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe during WW2, due to its proximity to RAF Northholt. 120. –, Due to the convoluted tracks, it’s actually possible to reverse trains here, but it takes up both platforms, so it’s not done at peak hours. –, The architects have cleverly designed the station so that natural light makes it all the way down to platform level, 10m below the entrance above ground. –, Has an original copy of the Harry Beck Tube map on display; he lived nearby and used the station frequently. Which station is furtherest away from central London? Not Chigwell. –, Dollis Hill played a part in the Second World War, as the code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built here. The first deep-level electric railway line also opened in 1890. If the nearby Waterloo East platforms are included, that number rises to 28, with a further 8 platforms in the Underground station. –, Harry Selfridge drew up proposals for a direct subway connecting the station to his store, and for the station to be renamed ‘Selfridges’. There as in fact, 171. 135. disguising where the original house was demolished to allow a gap in the tube system for steam trains to er …let off steam. –, The name Hillingdon is Middle English, and means “Hill’s hill”. –, The River Westbourne literally runs through the station – it was redirected through its own little bridge suspended over the main platform. You can Bank on it. News of the disaster was suppressed on orders of Churchill himself until the end of the war. –, Being the final/first station on the line, has a tunnel designed to mirror the one at Cockfosters at the opposing end of the line. –, Built from Portland Stone – a Jurassic era limestone from Dorset used in the construction of Buckingham Palace, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the UN Building in New York. –, On 1 April 1994, it was sold to London Underground for the princely sum of £1. The current trees were planted by five families of seven sisters. From the North M1. 33. It will come as no surprise that Angel station has the longest escalator at 60 metres. –, The only station in the UK named after a football team. A partial train derailment at the station then meant platforms had to be shut for an extra day. Avoiding King’s Cross St Pancras. The figures are collected by the Office of Rail and Road, and are estimates based on ticket usage data use of an Origin Destination Matrix, a comprehensive matrix of rail flows between stations throughout Great Britain in the financial year of 2017–18. –, It is the only station on the network to have one-way train service. –, Hidden in the green & cream tiling pattern at Archway station, there are black arches (as in ‘arch’ way). Source(s): Personal knowledge. 16. The data count entries and exits at any station. –, Built with a flat roof in order for a retail unit to be built on top of it. 89. 101. Best Video Streaming Services Featured in This Roundup: Netflix. Which buildings survived the Great Fire of London? The world's largest station by number of platforms is Grand Central Terminal, Park Avenue and 42nd Street, New York City, USA, built from 1903–13 which has 44 platforms. 7. –, Was originally on the Metropolitan Line, before being transferred to the Bakerloo Line, and finally landing on the Jubilee Line. –, The first railway station to employ electrified tracks in London. 10. –, Named after seven elm trees which have stood in the neighbourhood since the 1730s. 2. There are three tube stations on the Monopoly board: Liverpool Street Station, King’s Cross and Marylebone. Metropolitan Line The award for the most efficiently designed tube station has to go to Heathrow Terminal 4. London Underground’s history dates back to 1863 when the world’s first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, opened between Paddington and Farringdon serving six intermediate stations. 0 3. Only five London Underground stations lie outside the M25 motorway. 136. Approximately 50 passengers a year kill themselves on the Underground. Smoking was banned on the Underground as a result of the King's Cross fire in November 1987 which killed 31 people. 95. 115 years later, there is still no retail unit. –, Despite being hit by a V-1 flying bomb during WW2, the original station building stayed in use until it was demolished in 1960. –, The first station to be designed around escalators, rather than lifts. The fictitious station of Walford East, which features in the long-running soap opera Eastenders, is supposed to be on the District Line. 15. 74. Sting and Paul McCartney are both rumoured to have busked on the Underground in disguise. Because the northern line station there sits on the picturesque but thigh-aching Hampstead Hill, the tube platforms may not be that far below sea level but they are an awful long way below the ground. –, Has a huge, empty substation attached to it, abandoned since 1957. –, The station platform undergoes a makeover each year to coincide with the Wimbledon tennis tournament. The Peter Lodge recording of “Mind the Gap” is still in use, but some lines use recordings by a Manchester voice artist Emma Clarke. Called ‘Pages Walk’ it’s behind a blast door in the station, and is so large it’s been proposed as a possible nightclub location. Apart from, technically Burnt Oak. The longest distance between stations is on the Metropolitan line from Chesham to Chalfont & Latimer: a total of only 3.89 miles. –, Its original name, Eastcheap, lasted precisely one month before it was changed to Monument. They’re currently used as a secure archive. 86. –, The station was originally built so that City workers would have easy access to Epping Forest. Chosen after years of agonising research and based on a strict set of highly competitive crit... Umbrellas. –, When the station first opened, there was only one single house nearby, owned by a farmer named Daniel Rayner. 56. On the Piccadilly line the recording is notable for being the voice of Tim Bentinck, who plays David Archer in The Archers. –, Due to the nearby military barracks, Winston Churchill used to frequent this station. –, Is a Grade 1 listed building, making station improvements considerably difficult. The peak times for travel are roughly 7.45am–9.30am and 5.00pm–7.00pm Monday–Friday. 117. –, The station achieved poetic immortality in Poet Laureate John Betjeman’s poem Middlesex. Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star . –, Most of the station’s Victorian features remain today, including brick buildings, extensive cast iron, and timber canopies. 143. –, When he was mayor, Ken Livingstone used to get the tube to work from here every day. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. –, It’s actually on Green Hill, north of Harrow Hill. –, The station was originally to have been called ‘Nightingale Lane’ and this name still exists hidden behind the blue bars on the platform roundels. It has possibly the world's most convenient Airport Express service, with departures every 10 minutes or so. –, Was supposed to connect to Mill Hill East, and you can still see the disused track that leads to it… Graffiti artists have sprayed a Grenfell mural inside Oxford Circus underground station in central London. –, Has a heptagonal ticket hall, one of only two on the network. Which, apparently, had flowers in them. The recording that is broadcast on stations was first done by Peter Lodge, who had a recording company in Bayswater. –, Before it opened in 1933, there was a competition to name it. 133. 26. EAIOAA (zone 3) — anagram of 'Railway gone bad'. –, Belsize Park has a sign claiming that the stairs have 219 steps, but there are actually 189. to find us the best tube station from these popular motorways. If you take the average depth below sea level of all the platforms in each tube station – an important clarification – London Bridge comes out on top (bottom). –, On the service board at Tufnell Park station you’ll find ‘Poetry Corner’, the station staff’s daily selection of poetry by local residents, school children and famous poets, ‘giving passengers something to read while they’re waiting for the lifts’. To submit a Member Review please You don't need to take the tube everywhere, and many (make that most) tube stations have stairs of some sort between the platforms and street. In terms of the number of platforms, the largest railway station in the world is Grand Central Terminal in New York City. The Central Line has the most tube stations with no surface building (Bank, Bethnal Green, Chancery Lane, Gants Hill, Notting Hill Gate). District Line An Interesting Fact About Every London Tube Station. If you are coming from the M1 then Stanmore has 450 parking spaces an is minutes from the M1. A favourite of dowager duchesses, lords, ladies and assorted gentlefolk; the Middleton family and... A magnet for media and entertainment types, darling. Who was clearly copying his own homework. The highest station above sea level is Amersham, at 147 metres. Waterloo is a London Underground station located beneath Waterloo National Rail station.As of 2019, it is the 3rd busiest station on the London Underground, with 82.93 million users. –, The name Queensbury did not, when it was chosen, refer to any pre-existing area. During the Second World War, part of the Piccadilly line (Holborn - Aldwych branch), was closed and British Museum treasures were stored in the empty spaces. How many abandoned stations is there? –, Was originally called Queen’s Road (Bayswater), but the name was changed to avoid confusion with Queensway, which was also called Queen’s Road. On the Metropolitan line, trains can reach over 60mph. Not as in mental asylum, but as in safe asylum. Adjusted for inflation, that’s about half the cost of the construction of entire Metropolitan Line. If you're looking for the perfect soundtrack for powering a workout, punching up a party, or … –, Not exactly a ‘fun’ fact, but this was the site of the single largest loss of civilian life in the UK during WW2. It was notable for its assault of Londoners sleeping in the Underground during the Blitz. One of the largest pieces of the wall also stands just outside this station. It crosses it via aquaduct. –, Features 17 mosaics of Alfred Hitchcock films & famous moments. 0. They were replaced in 2014. Victoria Line, Alphabetically, the first tube station on the network! It’s a Monument to our capital’s history. According to TFL, London Underground trains travel a total of 1,735 times around the world (or 90 trips to the moon and back) each year. –, Serves the town of Chigwell, which Charles Dickens described as “the greatest place in the world”. 85. –, There’s a mural in the station of a pyramid of bricks, which is a visual pun of a ton of bricks (or a ‘bricks ton’). The most-used lines are roughly 20 times as busy as the least-used. 1 decade ago. The District Railway was certainly using platform numbers by 1931, as a photograph of Earls Court shows. The longest continuous tunnel is on the Northern line and runs from East Finchley to Morden (via Bank), a total of 17.3 miles. The busiest Tube station is Waterloo, which was used by around 95 million passengers in 2015. 27. You get to visualise the station and see how the corridors link up (and what the shortest way out or interchange might be), where the stairs and lifts are (for accessibility users) and also graphically shows what door to be at for the best exit/interchange too. 147. Which Railway Station Has The Most Platforms In World. First opened in 1863, some stations have become famous even beyond their wildest dreams. On the Underground railways, most stations were of the simplest design and the train services suited the ‘to such and such’ method of directing traffic to the relevant platform. –, Has the most entrances/exits of any tube station with 12. –, Despite servicing Wembley Stadium, is only the 142nd busiest station on the line. Many tube stations were used as air-raid shelters during the Second World War, but the Central Line was even converted into a fighter aircraft factory that stretched for over two miles, with its own railway system. A historic shot of the deepest tube station. Every week, Underground escalators travel the equivalent distance of going twice around the world. An interactive novel has been published, set on the London Underground. No-one knows quite how many. 1 decade ago. Commuters, many wearing backpacks, could be seen on crowded platforms. On August 3 2012, during the Olympic Games, the London Underground had its most hectic day ever, carrying 4.4 million passengers – but that record was beaten on Friday December 4 2015, when 4.82 million people used it. If you plan to get off the train at a station with a short raised platform area, you must be sure to … –, The disused platforms and tunnels have sometimes been used for filming and have appeared in several productions EastEnders and Waking the Dead. –, Not actually in the borough of Acton, it just took the name to be part of the trend – there are seven Acton stations on the network. 22.The District Line has the most stations: 60. Well rest assured, they’re terminating here. Only 45 per cent of the Underground is actually in tunnels. –, Jerry Springer was born in the station during an air raid in WW2. 97. –, The safest tube station on the entire network, according to the MET. –, In 1896 staff totalled 271, including 79 porters, 58 signalmen (in 14 signal boxes) and 58 shunters and yard foremen. –, Is home to one of the most accident-prone stretches of the Underground network: the line between Leyton & Stratford has had several fatal crashes, including one in 1953 in which 12 people died, the worst accident on the tube lines at the time. You can read it here. With 10 platforms, Baker Street is the station with the most platforms. But you can learn a few things about the Tube instead. The station with the most platforms is Baker Street with 10 (Moorgate also has 10 platforms but only six are used by Tube trains - others are used by … 16. –, Has a virtually unknown second underground network/line which starts here – the Northern City Line runs from Moorgate to Finsbury Park, and is’t run by TFL. Don't forget that London has a plethora of buses, all of which have priority areas for strollers and step free access if required. The worst civilian death toll on the Underground occurred at Bethnal Green Tube tragedy in 1943, when 173 people died. Conceived in the early 20th century, television is a vibrant broadcast medium, using the model of broadcast radio to bring news and entertainment to people all over the world. 118. You can't ride it today, thanks to industrial action. Edward Johnston designed the font for the London Underground in 1916. The Underground has the oldest section of underground railway in the world, which opened in 1863. 66. 65. Howrah Junction also has largest number of railway platforms in India and one of the busiest railway platforms too. –, A song named after it by singer Duffy reached number 3 in the charts. The Piccadilly line extended to serve Heathrow Terminal 4 in 1986. Its main innovation was to show the network's stations not in … It’s not clear why they lie about it. –, The reason it’s called Notting Hill Gate is because it was literally a gate: it used to be a toll road. .. You don't need to take the tube everywhere, and many (make that most) tube stations have stairs of some sort between the platforms and street. Of the stations that have stairs, Hampstead Station has the most steps (320 in total). –, Built on the original site of the Bethlehem (Bedlam) mental asylum. The deepest station is Hampstead on the Northern line, which runs down to 58.5 metres. –, The only station on the Underground network not to share any letters with the word “mackerel”. A completely unique feature to Station Master are the 3D Maps that we've drawn of the station. Yes, there are many stations in London connecting most parts of the UK directly. –, Despite having three lines run through it, it only has one pair of tracks, making it one of the most intensely used parts of the network. Alarming footage has emerged showing workers at a London Underground station piling into tube carriages earlier this morning. A recent Freedom of Information request from postgraduate student Prakash Kumar to Transport for London (TfL) has revealed how long the interchanges are between platforms at all Tube stations. The median number of passengers - ie, the most typical across all stations was 217,302 entries and exits, which is up on last year's 205,442. Distances on the Tube stretch between Upper Baker Street and Whitfield Street terrace. From as little as £1.50 a day, and means “ Hill ’ s longest escalator at 60m/197ft, a! 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