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 Friday, August 19, 2016

The TfL website has a special Facts and Figures page for data-lovers, with a definitive list of superlatives and trivia on the London Underground network.

The Tube has been an integral part of London's history for 150 years. But do you know which is the deepest station? Or the shortest journey? Find key facts and some interesting figures here.

But as of tonight London has a brand new railway system - the Night Tube. It's got its own mascot, namely Becky, the Night Tube owl. It's got its own map, including a paper version you can pick up in stations. And it's got its very own set of superlatives and trivia.

As far as I'm aware TfL doesn't have a special Facts and Figures page for the Night Tube, so I've had a go at coming up with one for myself. I've attempted to match TfL's original list, and added three more facts of my own. Please note that the data only refers to the initial Night Tube on the Central and Victoria lines, not the full five-line system due later in the year. The list may not be 100% accurate, sorry, but I have attempted to be.

	The Tube	The Night Tube
Date opened	1863	2016
Annual passenger numbers	1.34 billion	0 (so far)
Length of network	402km	68km
Number of stations	270	51
Busiest station	Waterloo - 95.1 million passengers per year	Oxford Circus
Annual train km travelled	82.5 million km	0.36 million km
Average train speed	33kmh	38kmh
Proportion of network in tunnels	45%	69%
Longest continuous tunnel	East Finchley to Morden (via Bank) - 27.8km	Brixton to Walthamstow - 21.3km
Total number of escalators	423	100 (estimate)
Station with most escalators	Waterloo - 23	tbc (Oxford Circus?)
Longest escalator	Angel - 27.4 metres (vertical rise)	Holborn - 23.4 metres (vertical rise)
Shortest escalator	Stratford - 4.1 metres	Stratford - 4.1 metres
Total number of lifts on the network	196	20 (estimate)
Number of moving walkways	Four, two each at Waterloo and Bank	0
Deepest lift shaft	Hampstead - 55.2 metres	Green Park - 22.8 metres
Shortest lift shaft	King's Cross St. Pancras - 2.3 metres	King's Cross St. Pancras - 2.3 metres
Step-free stations	68	7
Station with most platforms	Baker Street - 10	Oxford Circus - 4
Highest station above mean sea level	Amersham (Metropolitan line) - 147 metres	Buckhurst Hill (Central line) - 135 metres
Stations south of the Thames	28 (10%)	3 (6%)
Stations outside London	16	2
Furthest station from central London	Chesham (Metropolitan line) - 47km to Aldgate	Loughton (Central line) - 17km to Liverpool Street
Longest distance between stations	Chesham to Chalfont & Latimer (Metropolitan line) - 6.3km	Finsbury Park to Seven Sisters (Victoria line) - 3.1km
Shortest distance between stations	Leicester Square to Covent Garden (Piccadilly line) - 0.3km	Holborn to Chancery Lane (Central line) - 0.4km
Longest direct journey	Epping to West Ruislip (Central line) - 54.9km	Hainault to Ealing Broadway (Central line) - 37.6km

Something to mull over next time you catch the 0352 from South Woodford to East Acton.

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