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A sub-surface Metropolitan line A Stock train (left) passes a deep-tube Piccadilly line 1973 Stock train (right) in the siding at Rayners Lane.. The Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines are services that run on the sub-surface network, that has railway tunnels just below the surface and was built mostly using the cut-and-cover method.
The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.
The early tube lines, originally owned by several private companies, were brought together under the Underground brand in the early 20th century, and eventually merged along with the sub-surface lines and bus services in 1933 to form London Transport under the control of the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB).
The Waterloo & City line, colloquially known as The Drain, [4] is a shuttle line of the London Underground that runs between Waterloo and Bank with no intermediate stops. Its primary traffic consists of commuters from south-west London, Surrey and Hampshire arriving at Waterloo main line station and travelling forward to the City of London financial district.
The Metropolitan Line train is equivalent to a full-sized train on the national network, while the Piccadilly Line trains shows the size of a "deep-tube" type Although the railway network in Great Britain has some of the smallest loading gauges in the world, the vast bulk of it is still capable of operating full sized vehicles. [ 1 ]
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The City and South London Railway tube line opened in 1890 with electric locomotives hauling carriages. [34]: 15 Initially the locomotive could haul three carriages at an average 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles per hour (21.7 km/h); [34]: 30 [2]: 45 the trains were air braked, their reservoirs topped up at Stockwell. Fourteen locomotives were initially ...
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