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The

London Underground The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. The ...

is a

metro system Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be c ...

in the United Kingdom that serves

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and the

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Essex Essex () is a Ceremonial counties of England, county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the Riv ...

and

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. Its first section opened in 1863, making it the oldest underground metro system in the world – although approximately 55% of the current network is above ground, as it generally runs on the surface in outlying suburbs. The system is composed of eleven lines –

Bakerloo The Bakerloo line () is a London Underground line that goes from in suburban north-west London to in south London, via the West End. Printed in brown on the Tube map, it serves 25 stations, 15 of which are underground, over . It runs partl ...

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, Hammersmith & City,

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Piccadilly Piccadilly () is a road in the City of Westminster, London, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is part of the A4 road that connects central London to Hammersmith, Earl's Cour ...

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, and Waterloo & City – serving 272 stations. It is operated by Transport for London (TfL). Most of the system is north of the

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, with six of the 32

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in the south of the city not served by the Underground. The

London Borough of Hackney London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major se ...

, to the north, has two stations on its border. Some stations at the north-eastern end of the Central line are in the

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district of Essex and some stations at the north-western end of the Metropolitan line are in the Three Rivers and

Watford Watford () is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles northwest of Central London, on the River Colne. Initially a small market town, the Grand Junction Canal encouraged the construction of paper-making mills, print works, and ...

districts of Hertfordshire, and

. There are two instances where two separate stations share the same name: there is one Edgware Road station on the Circle, District, and Hammersmith & City lines and another Edgware Road on the Bakerloo line, and there is one Hammersmith station on the District and Piccadilly lines and another Hammersmith station on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines. Although the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines station at Paddington is on the other side of the main line station to the Bakerloo, Circle and District lines station, it is shown as a single station on the current

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. It has been shown as two separate stations at different times in the past. The opening of the

Northern line extension to Battersea The Northern line extension to Battersea is an extension of the London Underground from to Battersea in South West London, terminating at the redeveloped Battersea Power Station. The extension formed a continuation of the Northern line's br ...

in September 2021 added two new stations to the network (

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and

Nine Elms Nine Elms is an area of south-west London, England, within the London Borough of Wandsworth. It lies on the River Thames, with Battersea to the west, South Lambeth to the south and Vauxhall to the east. The area was formerly mainly industrial ...

), bringing the total to 272.

Stations

Listed for each of the 272 stations are the lines serving it, local authority and the fare zone in which it is located,The London Underground uses a system of nine concentric zones for the calculation of fares between stations. Fares are calculated based on the number of zones traversed. the date it and any earlier main line service opened, previous names and passenger usage statistics in millions per year.

Fictional stations

Notes

:* Where more than one line serves a station, lines are listed in the order of opening. In some cases stations were first served by one underground line but later transferred to another: ::a First served by Metropolitan line – Circle line services separately identified in 1949. ::b First served by Metropolitan line – Circle line services separately identified in 1949, Hammersmith & City line services separately identified in 1990. ::c First served by Metropolitan line – District line service added in stages, Circle line services separately identified in 1949. ::d First served by Metropolitan line – Hammersmith & City line services separately identified in 1990. ::e First served by Metropolitan line – service transferred to Bakerloo line in 1939 and then to the Jubilee line in 1979. ::f First served by Metropolitan line – Bakerloo line service added in 1939 which was transferred to the Jubilee line in 1979. ::g First served by Bakerloo line – service transferred to Jubilee line in 1979. ::h First served by District line – service transferred to Piccadilly line in 1933. ::i First served by District line – Circle line services separately identified in 1949. ::j First served by District line – Metropolitan line service added in stages which was transferred to Hammersmith & City line in 1990. ::k First served by Metropolitan line – District line service added in 1910 which was transferred to Piccadilly line in 1933. ::l First served by District line – service transferred to Piccadilly line in 1964. ::m First served by Metropolitan line – Hammersmith & City line services separately identified in 1990, Circle line service added in 2009. ::n First served by Bakerloo line – service withdrawn in 1982. :^† Some stations are assigned to multiple zones. People travelling through these stations may treat the station as in whatever zone makes their fare the least expensive.

References

External links

Tube – Transport for London
* {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of London Underground Stations Busiest London Underground stations

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Underground Stations

Stations

Fictional stations

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