![]() ![]() On the Piccadilly line the recording is notable for being the voice of Tim Bentinck, who plays David Archer in The Archers.ĥ5. The Jubilee Line was the only Underground Line to connect with all the others until the East London line ceased to be part of the Underground in 2007 (now the Central Line does too).ĥ6. Approximately 50 passengers a year kill themselves on the Underground.ĥ7. Fewer than 10 per cent of Tube stations lie south of the Thames.ĥ8. The total number of lifts on the Underground, including four stair lifts, is 167.ĥ9. Smoking was banned on the Underground as a result of the King's Cross fire in November 1987 which killed 31 people. ![]() ![]() The recording that is broadcast on stations was first done by Peter Lodge, who had a recording company in Bayswater.ĥ4. The Peter Lodge recording of “Mind the Gap” is still in use, but some lines use recordings by a Manchester voice artist Emma Clarke. ![]() London Underground: alternative Tube mapsĥ1. Busking has been licensed on the Tube since 2003.ĥ2. Sting and Paul McCartney are both rumoured to have busked on the Underground in disguise.ĥ3. The phrase "Mind the gap" dates back to 1968.He was reportedly paid 10 guineas (£10.50) for his efforts.ĥ0. Harry Beck’s map was considered too big a departure from the norm, but the public liked it and it became official in 1933. He died in 1862 shortly before the first train ran.Ĥ7. The first escalator on the Underground was installed at Earl's Court in 1911.Ĥ8. The first crash on the Tube occurred in 1938 when two trains collided between Waterloo and Charing Cross, injuring 12 passengers.Ĥ9. Harry Beck produced the well known Tube map diagram while working as an engineering draughtsman at the London Underground Signals Office. The tuppence fare lasted until the end of June 1907 when a threepenny fare was introduced for longer journeys.Ĥ6. Charles Pearson, MP and Solicitor to the City of London, is credited with successfully campaigning for the introduction of the Underground. The total length of the London Underground network is 250 milesĤ4. The tunnels beneath the City curve significantly because they follow its medieval street plan.Ĥ5. The Central line introduced the first flat fare when it opened at the turn of the 20th century. The Tube's logo is known as “the roundel”ģ3. The Waterloo & City line has the fewest scheduled for peak period service at just five.ģ4. The total length of the London Underground network is 250 miles.ģ5. In 1926, suicide pits were installed beneath tracks due to a rise in the numbers of passengers throwing themselves in front of trains.ģ6. The eastern extension of the Jubilee line is the only Underground line to feature glass screens to deter "jumpers".ģ7. The earliest trains run from Osterley to Heathrow on the Piccadilly line, starting at 4.45am.ģ8. The greatest elevation above the ground level is on the Northern line at Dollis Brook viaduct over Dollis road, Mill Hill: it rises a total of 18 metres (60ft).ģ9. One of the early names proposed for the Victoria Line was the Viking line.Ĥ0. In 1924, the first baby was born on the Underground, on a train at Elephant & Castle on the Bakerloo line.Ĥ1. 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.Ĥ2. Builders working on the Bakerloo Line are reported to have suffered from the bends while tunnelling under the Thames.Ĥ3. The inaugural journey of the first Central line train in 1900 had the Prince of Wales and Mark Twain on board. It is the DLR concourse at Bank, which is 41.4 metres below. Secret London: 14 odd attractions you never knew were thereħ. Angel has the Underground's longest escalator at 60m/197ft, with a vertical rise of 27.5m.Ĩ. The shortest escalator is Stratford, with a vertical rise of 4.1m.ĩ. Only 45 per cent of the Underground is actually in tunnels.ġ0. The longest distance between stations is on the Metropolitan line from Chesham to Chalfont & Latimer: a total of only 3.89 miles.ġ1. The longest continuous tunnel is on the Northern line and runs from East Finchley to Morden (via Bank), a total of 17.3 miles.ġ2. Aldgate Station, on the Circle and Metropolitan Lines, is built on a massive plague pit, where more than 1,000 bodies are buried.ġ3. The longest journey without change is on the Central line from West Ruislip to Epping, and is a total of 34.1 miles.ġ4. The deepest station is Hampstead on the Northern line, which runs down to 58.5 metres.ġ5. In Central London the deepest station below street level is also the Northern line. ![]()
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