New London Underground Map
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The London Underground (also accepted as the Tube or The Underground) is a accelerated alteration arrangement confined a ample allotment of Greater London and some genitalia of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway in the world, with the aboriginal area actuality opened in 1863 on which is now the Circle , Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines. In 1890 it became the aboriginal to accomplish electric trains. Despite its name, about 55% of the arrangement is aloft ground. The accomplished arrangement is frequently referred to by Londoners and in official publicity as the Tube, although the appellation originally activated alone to the deep-level apathetic lines, forth which run hardly lower, narrower trains on standard-gauge track, to analyze them from the sub-surface "cut and cover" curve that were congenital first.
The beforehand curve of the present London Underground arrangement were congenital by assorted clandestine companies. Apart from the capital band railways, they became allotment of an chip carriage arrangement in 1933 back the London Commuter Carriage Lath (LPTB) or London Carriage was created. The underground arrangement became a distinct article in 1985, back the UK Government created London Underground Limited (LUL). Since 2003 LUL has been a wholly endemic accessory of Carriage for London (TfL), the approved association amenable for best aspects of the carriage arrangement in Greater London, which is run by a lath and a abettor appointed by the Mayor of London.
The Underground serves 270 stations and has 402 kilometres (250 mi) of track, authoritative it the additional longest busline arrangement in the apple afterwards the Shanghai Metro. It additionally has one of the accomplished cardinal of stations. In 2007, added than one billion commuter journeys were recorded, authoritative it the third busiest busline arrangement in Europe afterwards Paris and Moscow. The tube is an all-embracing figure for London, with the tube map, advised a architecture classic, accepting afflicted abounding added carriage maps worldwide. Although apparent on the Tube map, the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) and London Overground are not allotment of the network.
