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London Underground line

Key facts

Termini
Kennington, Battersea Power Station, Morden Edgware, High Barnet, Mill Hill East
Colour on map
Black
Website
tfl .gov .uk /tube /route /northern /
Type
Rapid transit
System
London Underground
Depot s
Golders Green Morden Stabling Sidings : Highgate Edgware High Barnet
Rolling stock
1995 Stock
Ridership
339.7 million passenger journeys (2019)
Opened
18 December 1890 ; 135 years ago ( 1890-12-18 )
Last extension
20 September 2021 ; 4 years ago ( 2021-09-20 )
Line length
58 km (36 mi)
Character
Deep-tube
Track gauge
1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) standard gauge
Electrification
Fourth rail , 630 V DC
Operating speed
45 mph (72 km/h)
Signalling
CBTC (SelTrac)

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Northern Line
Continent
Europe
Operator
TfL
Image
Mornington Crescent northbound.jpg
Length
58
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Commons category
Northern Line
topic's main category
Category:Northern Line
date of official opening
1890-12-18
sRGB color hex triplet
000000
route diagram template
Template:Northern line map
vehicle normally used
London Underground 1972 Stock
route number
Northern
transport network
London Underground
native label
Northern Line
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Encyclopedic overview

The Northern line is a London Underground line which runs between North London and South London. It is printed in black on the Tube map. It carries more passengers per year than any other Underground line – around 340 million in 2019 – making it the busiest tube line in London. The Northern line is unique on the network in having two routes through Central London, two northern branches and two southern branches. Despite its name, it does not serve the northernmost stations on the Underground, though it does serve the southernmost station at Morden, the terminus of one of the two southern branches.

The line's northern termini, all in the London Borough of Barnet, are at Edgware and High Barnet; Mill Hill East is the terminus of a single-station branch line off the High Barnet branch. The two main northern branches run south to join at Camden Town where two routes, one via Charing Cross in the West End and the other via Bank in the City, continue and then join at Kennington in Southwark. At Kennington the line again divides into two branches, one to each of the southern termini – at Morden, in the borough of Merton, and at Battersea Power Station in Wandsworth.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Northern line” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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