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Northern line
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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)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Northern Line
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- London Borough of Wandsworth
- Continent
- Europe
- Operator
- TfL
- Official website
- tfl.gov.uk/tube/route/northern
- 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
- track gauge
- standard-gauge railway
- vehicle normally used
- London Underground 1972 Stock
- terminus
- Morden tube station
- 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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On the map
52 mapped locations