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Old January 11th 13, 10:50 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default London Underground superlatives: the oldest … the largest?

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allantracy wrote:
Bakerloo: * * 11 new, 23 shared [1]
Central: * * *26 new, 55 takeover
Circle: * * * *1 new [2]
District: * * 30 new, 28 takeover, 8 licenced [3]
H&C: * * * * * 9 new, *7 takeover
Jubilee: * * *31 new [4]
Metropolitan: 81 new, 37 bought [5]
Northern: * * 48 new, 10 takeover
Piccadilly: * 38 new [5][6]
Victoria: * * 22 new
Waterloo: * * *2 new


Nice figures though I guess there's room for some debate.


Please try.

I'll start by querying that Northern Line figure wasn't all of the
Northern north of Camden originally part of the GN, certainly High
Barnet and Mill Hill East but confess I'm not sure about Edgware?


East Finchley and north of there only. That's the 10km. The rest was all
new build - the original northern termini were Golders Green and
Archway, and it was the LER (IIRC) that built the line to Edgware. (The
GN had a separate Edgware station at the end of what's now the Mill Hill
East branch).

Was the West Ruislip (Central Line) new build or obtained from the GW.


The latter; it's part of the 55km of takeover. The new build is from a
point west of White City to Leyton, then Leytonstone to Newbury Park.

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