Fast Facts: London Underground
Thursday, July 21, 2005
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LONDON — Here are some facts about the London Underground:
Number of miles travelled by each train each year: 73,500
Total number of passengers carried each year: 976 million
Number of individual passengers carried each year: 19 million
Average train speed: 33km/20.5mph
Length of network: 408km/253 miles
Proportion of the network which is in tunnels: 45 per cent
Total number of escalators: 410
Total number of elevators: 102
Cars in fleet: 3,954
Total number of stations served: 275
Underground staff: 12,350
Stations with the most platforms: Moorgate and Baker Street have 10 platforms each
Busiest stations: During the three-hour morning peak, Waterloo is London’s busiest Tube station, while the busiest station in terms of passengers each year is Kings Cross St Pancras
Passenger flow: 150,000 people each hour enter the system on average
Nickname: the London Underground has been known as the Tube since 1890, when the first deep-level electric railway line was opened. The Underground name first appeared on stations in 1908
Logo: The roundel – a red circle crossed by a horizontal blue bar – was designed by calligrapher Edward Johnston and first appeared in 1913
Source: Transport for London
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