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2. List of London Underground stations - Wikipedia

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   The system is composed of 11 lines – Bakerloo, Central, Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria, and Waterloo & City – serving 272 stations. [ 3] It is operated by Transport for London (TfL). Most of the system is north of the River Thames, with six of the 32 London boroughs in the south ...

3. History of the London Underground - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. The history of the London Underground began in the 19th century with the construction of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway. The Metropolitan Railway, which opened in 1863 using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives, worked with the District Railway to complete London's Circle line in 1884.

4. Third rail - Wikipedia

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   The London Underground uses a four-rail system where both conductor rails are live relative to the running rails, and the positive rail has twice the voltage of the negative rail. Arcs like this are normal and occur when the electric power collection shoes of a train that is drawing power reach the end of a section of conductor rail.

5. Underground Ernie - Wikipedia

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   Underground Ernie. Underground Ernie is a 2006 British animated children's television series produced by Joella Productions for the BBC on both CBeebies and BBC Two, and sold internationally by BBC Worldwide. It is set in International Underground, a fictional worldwide underground railway network, based on the London Underground, and focuses ...

6. London Underground 2024 Stock - Wikipedia

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   London transport portal. The London Underground 2024 Stock, known as the New Tube for London ( NTfL) during development, is a London Underground train being built by Siemens Mobility at its facilities in Goole, United Kingdom and Vienna, Austria. It is part of the Siemens Inspiro family of metro and rapid-transport trains.

7. London Underground - Wikipedia

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   e. The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. [ 5] The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, opening on 10 January 1863 as the ...