John Salmon wrote:

"Paul Corfield" wrote

wrote:

"MIG" wrote

wrote:

The Central Line is a line of the London Underground and
coloured red on
the
tube map. It is the second busiest line on the Underground after
the
Northern with 183,512,000 passengers per annum. It is a
deep-level "tube"
line, running east-west across London, and has the greatest
total length
of
track on the Underground (but is not the longest continuous
line)

Just read the above on Wikipedia....what is the longest
continuous line
it
is referring to?

It's a strange imprecise term to use. In fact, the whole thing
is
really, because "lines" are not really all that separate.

It also seems to be the wrong way round. The Central Line is
longest
end to end (Epping to West Ruislip), but I would have thought
other
lines had more track mileage.


It seems to imply there is another line

"(but is not the longest continuous line)"

The only other concept of "continuous" anything on the Underground
that
I am aware of is the longest continuous section of travel in
tunnel.
That is on the Northern Line from the portal at East Finchley via
the
Bank Branch to the southern portal just at Morden station. I can't
think of any other relevant comparison but if people will use
imprecise
terminology for something as complex as the LU network!


Cockfosters to Cockfosters via Heathrow?


Just thought about that too (and Kennington loop)... Would
Cockfosters-Heathrow-Cockfosters be the longest a train will go on the
system without reversing? Or would a Circle Line train travel longer
before it becomes something else than a Circle Line train and going out
somewhere and reversing?

--
Olof Lagerkvist
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On 19 Jun, 17:25, wrote:

It is the second busiest line on the Underground after the
Northern with 183,512,000 passengers per annum.

Also, it would be better to say "with 183,512,000 passenger journeys
per annum". The wording used seems to imply that the number of people
who use the line at least once in a year is approximately three times
the entire population of the UK!

Steve Adams