London Underground

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Welcome to London
Underground!

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• The London Underground was the first
city underground in the world.

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• There are more than 280 tube stations.

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• The Underground has more than 280 stations
and around 400 km (250 miles) of track,
making it the longest metro system in the world
by route length. It also has one of the highest
number of stations. In 2007, more than one
billion passenger journeys were recorded,
making it the third busiest metro system in
Europe after Paris and Moscow.

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London underground has 11 lines which
denoted with different colors:
Bakerloo Line – Brown (25 stations)
Central Line – Red (49 stations)
Circle Line – Yellow (35 stations)
District Line – Green (60 stations)
Hammersmith Line – Pink (29 stations)
Jubilee Line – Silver (27 stations)
Metropolitan Line - Dark Magenta (34 stations)
Northern Line – Black (50 stations)
Piccadilly Line – Dark Bluе (53 stations)
Victoria Line – Light Blue (16 stations)
Waterloo & City Line – Turquoise (2 stations)

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The map of underground

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Born-4 June 1902
Died-18 September 1974 (aged 72)
Nationality-British
Occupation-Designer
Known for-Tube map
The London Underground map
has a classic 20th century design
with a great history of its own.
Although it was designed in the
1930s, the original is still used
today with modifications. Harry
Beck, the designer of the map in
1933, was paid only five guineas
for the job. Official
acknowledgment he received was
a plaque at Finchley Station.
Harry Beck

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The map proved to be a great hit. Such big cities as
New York ,
St Petersburg and Sydney used his map for their own
underground maps.

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Someone has actually
designed “The Way Out”
tube map which is a pretty
useful invention, since it
shows where all the nearest
exits are, when you reach a
station, allowing you to save
valuable time.

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• First trains start operating from approximately
04:45a.m running until 01:00a.m.

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Arts in the underground*
• Poster and billboard space is
given over to artwork and
poetry to "create an
environment for positive
impact and to enhance and
enrich the journeys of ...
passengers".

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• The artistic legacy of London Underground
includes the works of many well-known graphic
designers, illustrators and artists since the 1920s.

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• Many stations have their own unique design to
help passenger identification.In the walls at
Baker Street station is represented the
silhouette of Sherlock Holmes.

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• "Mind the gap
between the platform
and the train." You
are reminded of this
by an announcement
in London's
underground each
time the train comes
to a half at a station.

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Interesting facts
• Londoners call the Underground
«subway» or more «Tube», «pipe»,
because of the form of the
majority of deep tunnels.