Jubilee Line
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The Jubilee Line is a line on the London Underground, coloured grey on the Tube map.
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History
The line opened on 1 May 1979, taking over one of the Bakerloo Line's two branches to relieve congestion on their common portion. The Baker Street to Stanmore branch was joined to a new four-km segment into central London with a terminus at a new station at Charing Cross railway station.
The previous Charing Cross station, on the Circle, District, Bakerloo and Northern lines, was renamed Embankment. The new Charing Cross tube station created a new interchange, amalgamating the stations of Strand on the Northern Line and Trafalgar Square on the Bakerloo.
The new line was to have been called the Fleet Line after the River Fleet, but the project was renamed for the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's 1977 Silver Jubilee and because the original plans to go west towards Fleet Street had been shelved. The choice of grey for the tube map is presumed to represent silver.
The Jubilee Line of 1979 was meant to be only the first phase of the project, but lack of funds meant the line stayed the same until the late 1990s. Phase 2 would have extended the line along Fleet Street to Aldwych and then across the River Thames to Lewisham.
Changes in land use, particularly the urban renewal of the Docklands area, meant the project to extend the line beyond Charing Cross changed considerably in the 1990s. The Jubilee Line Extension, opened in three stages in 1999, split from the existing line at Green Park, creating a one-station branch to Charing Cross, which is now closed.
2005 Upgrade
At the end of 2005, the Jubilee Line is expected to close [1] (http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4596940) for a five-day period starting 26 December 2005. This is in order to introduce seven-carriage trains instead of the present six-carriage trains, which cannot run simultaneously. An additional four complete trains will be added to the fleet, for a total of 63 trains. This will result in a 17% increase in capacity at peak times, allowing 3,000 more passengers to use Jubilee Line services. The notoriously poor signalling system will also be improved.
Map
Stations
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in order from west to east
- Terminus: Stanmore, opened December 10, 1932.
- Canons Park (Edgware), opened:December 10, 1932. Renamed(Canons Park): 1933
- Queensbury, opened December 16, 1934.
- Kingsbury, opened: December 10, 1932.
- Wembley Park, opened: October 14, 1893.
- Neasden, opened: August 2, 1880.
- Dollis Hill, opened: October 1, 1909.
- Willesden Green, opened: November 24, 1879.
- Kilburn opened: November 24, 1879 (as Kilburn & Brondesbury). Renamed: September 25, 1950.
- West Hampstead, opened: June 30, 1879.
- Finchley Road, opened: June 30, 1879.
- Swiss Cottage, opened: November 20, 1939.
- St. John's Wood, opened: November 20, 1939.
- Baker Street, opened: May 1, 1979.
- Bond Street, opened: May 1, 1979.
- Green Park, opened: May 1, 1979.
Splits into two branches
Charing Cross branch
- Charing Cross, opened: May 1, 1979. Closed to Jubilee Line: November 19, 1999.
Stratford branch
- Westminster, opened: December 22, 1999.
- Waterloo, opened: September 24, 1999.
- Southwark, opened: November 20, 1999.
- London Bridge, opened: October 7, 1999.
- Bermondsey, opened: September 17, 1999.
- Canada Water, opened: September 17, 1999.
- Canary Wharf, opened: September 17, 1999.
- North Greenwich, opened: May 14, 1999.
- Canning Town, opened: May 14, 1999.
- West Ham, opened: May 14, 1999.
- Terminus: Stratford, opened: May 14, 1999.
External links
- Jubilee Line (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/company/linefacts/?line=jubilee) - London Underground website
- Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides - Jubilee Line (http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/jubilee.html)de:Jubilee Line
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