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London Underground Limited was formed in 1985, but its history dates back to 1863 when the first world underground railway opened in London .
It is responsible for running London 's underground rail network, otherwise known as the Tube . Every Tube train travels the distance from London to Sydney (10,500 miles) seven times a year and carries as many individual passengers a year as the population of Australia (19 million). This gigantic network is sub-divided into three service delivery units:
o BCV: Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines
o JNP: Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines
o SSR (Sub Surface Railway): Metropolitan,
District, East London , Circle,
Hammersmith & City and Waterloo & City lines
The train travels at an average train speed of 33 km/h (20.5 mph) - including station stops. It has a proportion of 45% total route in tunnel. There are 3,954 number of cars in the fleet with a train that is 65.4 million long.
To give you an idea of how many people patronize the Underground, let us compare. London Underground is a major business, with over 3 million passenger journeys a day, some 500 peak trains, 253 stations owned (275 served), over 12,000 staff and huge engineering assets. At any given hour, around 150,000 people enter the Tube system - enough to fill Wembley Stadium twice over. It has 408 escalators and 112 lifts to keep passengers moving throughout the system.
The Underground's busiest station is Victoria , with 76.5 million passengers a year. During the three-hour morning peak, 34,000 people enter Victoria . However, it is Waterloo station that has the most number of escalators with an incomparable 25 units.
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