r/LondonUnderground • • 4d ago

Question Megathread Questions | Help | Advice – All questions, big or small, asked and answered in this weekly thread.

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A question megathread will be stickied to the top of our subreddit every Tuesday to catch all of your questions, big or small.

Do you have a question about the Underground, or maybe even the greater London network? Ask it here and our knowledgeable community will endeavour to answer it. Last week's iteration can be found here.

Please note that going forward, all questions posted outside of this thread will be moderated away/deleted.


r/LondonUnderground • • 1h ago

Other Extending the Northern Line to Southall Broadway

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Northern Line

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Kennington

Nine Elms (2021)

Battersea Power Station (2021)

Clapham Junction

Wandsworth Town

East Putney

Roehampton

East Sheen

Gunnersbury

Northfields

Hanwell

Southall Broadway

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Southall Broadway

Hanwell

Northfields

Gunnersbury

East Sheen

Roehampton

East Putney

Wandsworth Town

Clapham Junction

Battersea Power Station (2021)

Nine Elms (2021)

Kennington


r/LondonUnderground • • 3h ago

Article Calls for Sadiq Khan to ban Meta AI glasses from London Underground due to recording of girls & women

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r/LondonUnderground • • 18h ago

Image The Tube

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r/LondonUnderground • • 19h ago

Mudchute Does anyone else just love how fast The Victoria Line is?

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r/LondonUnderground • • 19h ago

Image 1972 stock in minecraft

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I know I am not the first person to do something like this, it's mostly just a test to see if I can model underground trains to be used in minecraft.

It has it's problems such as the front and back being invisible from the inside, the interior windows not being textured in the front and back, the doors don't work, the back is a bit too long and the blue strip on the side is a little bit too thin.

I may consider releasing this, but I need to fix the problems first before I do.


r/LondonUnderground • • 22h ago

Article BBC News: Daniel Keeble – Visited all 272 Underground stations in under 20 hours, raising thousands of pounds for Cancer Research UK.

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r/LondonUnderground • • 1d ago

Image Waterloo Disruption

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South Western Railway announced that people can sleep on trains overnight for tonight as it disruption expected till no time.


r/LondonUnderground • • 1d ago

Image At Turnpike Lane today, I just wish I could find the bus station...

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r/LondonUnderground • • 1d ago

Blog Ian Visits: Eastcote Tube station gets step-free upgrade planning permission.

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r/LondonUnderground • • 2d ago

Grumble second time this week 😤

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r/LondonUnderground • • 3d ago

Maps How would you divide up South Eastern if you were tfl

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For the used image, full credit goes to u/alexmiao for their great redesign of south eastern.

Lets say tfl has the funding and means to take over Suburban services of South Eastern. They also want to build cross rail 3 from South East to North West. What branches would you include in overground, cross rail or even underground extensions. Which station would the cross rail branches converge into before going into Central. Maybe London Bridge? Thameslink and the express services stay as they are.


r/LondonUnderground • • 3d ago

Image Some pics from across the Central Line today (mostly on the Eastern end as that's where I live)

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r/LondonUnderground • • 3d ago

Image Today was rough

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Westbound trains all cancelled or delayed. Many stations weren’t open at all.


r/LondonUnderground • • 3d ago

Image 92 Woodford Bay

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r/LondonUnderground • • 3d ago

Blog Ian Visits: New Poems on the Underground for autumn.

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r/LondonUnderground • • 3d ago

Image Perfect match for boring tunnels?

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Standard deep-level running tunnels on the London Underground have an internal diameter of about 11 feet 8 inches. The Boring Company's tunnels are 12 feet in diameter. These tunnels should work nicely for deep-level lines extension.

The cost of building deep-bored urban metro or rail tunnels in London can reach £250 million per mile, while The Boring Company has cited costs of around £10 million per mile (calculation was made based on finished existing/built projects).

Steve Davis (the CEO and company director) of Boring Company is hoping to bring it down under £5 million in 3 years time..

I understand that new tunnels may need a larger diameter to accommodate ventilation, heat management and emergency escape routes. But at that claimed price, wouldn’t it still be significantly cheaper to bore three tunnels rather than two larger ones, with the third serving as a dedicated escape and service tunnel, similar to the arrangement used for the Channel Tunnel?

Update: I am interested in the technical aspects of tunnel design and construction, rather than personal opinions about Musk. Thank you.


r/LondonUnderground • • 4d ago

Other I made a discord server for London trains and stuff

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I made a new discord server. Just felt the need to say it because I’d like to make friends who are actually interested in the same stuff as me. I look forward to saying hi!

https://discord.gg/q9tKhKk3rR

PS - I don’t know if I’m allowed to “promote” my server here so sorry if I broke a rule.


r/LondonUnderground • • 4d ago

Image Found this in my attic trying to find out how old it is or if it holds any value

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I was only told it was a staff workers bag and it could be from the early 2000s


r/LondonUnderground • • 5d ago

Image Quiet Saturday morning at Lancaster Gate.

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r/LondonUnderground • • 5d ago

Maps The tube map but every extension is erased

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This drawing is really bad. Let me know if I missed something!


r/LondonUnderground • • 6d ago

Article The Standard: Southfields residents gathered outside their Tube station to call on TfL to fix the long-running signalling failures between East Putney and Wimbledon.

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r/LondonUnderground • • 6d ago

Mudchute TfL squeezing every last bit of life out of the 1972 Stock

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r/LondonUnderground • • 6d ago

Image Some photos from my last trip.

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r/LondonUnderground • • 6d ago

Game [Spin] You have to get between these two London Underground stations using only this line and/or foot in the allotted time, can you do it?

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I made this fun spinning wheel on a Reddit app, where it gives you a random start and end station, a time to get between them in, and a line you have to use (you can also use foot in addition/instead). You can’t use any other line or method of transport. Can you do it?