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The London Underground Nowadays<br>London Underground operates nearly 400 route miles of underground railway line, the majority of which is double track. Most of the underground lines are deep level tubes, which currently extend for nearly 172 route miles. The highest point reached by London Underground trains is at Amersham on the Metropolitan Line at about 500 feet above sea lev- el. The absolute deepest part of the system is on the Northern where, below Hampstead Heath, the rails are over 220 feet below the ground.The longest continuous journey on the Underground (without a change of trains) is on the Central Line where a journey from West Ruislip to Epping covers just over 34 miles. The shortest distance between stops is on the Piccadilly Line: Leicester Square and Covent Garden stations being a mere 0.16 miles. The busi- est line on the system is the District Line which car- ries over 180 million passengers per year over its 40 mile length.<br>What are the most interesting facts? <br><br><br>Underground first name of The appeared on stations in 1908. <br>* London Underground has Been known as with the the Tube since 1890, when the first deep-level electric railway line was opened. <br>* The Tube's world-famous logo , 'the roundel' (a red circle crossed by a horizontal blue bar), first appeared in 1908. * Number of miles / km travelled by each Tube train each year: 114,500 mile / 184,269 km. <br>* Total number of passengers carried each year : 1,107 million. <br>* Average train speed: 33 km per hour.
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