Circle Line

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There are Circle Line ferries and sightseeing boats in Greater New York, as well as the Circle MRT Line, part of the Mass Rapid Transit system in Singapore.
Circle Line
Colour on map Yellow
Year opened 1884
Line type Sub-Surface
Rolling stock C Stock
Stations served 27
Length (km) 22.5
Length (miles) 14
Depots Hammersmith
Neasden
Journeys made 68,485,000 (per annum)
Rail lines of
Transport for London
London Underground lines
  Bakerloo
  Central
  Circle
  District
  East London
  Hammersmith & City
  Jubilee
  Metropolitan
  Northern
  Piccadilly
  Victoria
  Waterloo & City
Other lines
Image:Small white strip.png Docklands Light Railway
  Tramlink

The Circle Line of the London Underground became known as such in 1949, when it was separated from its parent lines, the Metropolitan Line and the District Line, although it had been shown on Underground maps since 1947.

In the north, east and west of central London, the Circle Line approximately outlines Travelcard Zone 1, though in the south there is a substantial portion of the zone outside of the area enclosed by the Circle Line, and is the only line (apart from the two-stop Waterloo & City Line) that is completely contained within it. As the name implies, trains run continuously on the line. A complete journey around the line lasts approximately one hour. The Line has 27 stations and 14 miles (22.5 km) of track. There are usually quicker routes on other lines when traveling from south to north or vice versa.

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History

see main article Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways

The Circle Line was authorised when Acts of Parliament in 1853 and 1854 empowered the Metropolitan and the Metropolitan District Railways to complete an Inner Circle in London. There was some animosity between the two Railways and it was not until 6 October 1884 that the Inner Circle became a reality. Electrification of the line - which until then had been worked by steam locomotives - was started with an experimental section in 1900. Some disagreement over the power supply delayed electrification, and the first trains using that power were introduced gradually over the 11 days to 24 September 1905.

Later routes: the Inner Circle was followed by the Outer Circle, then the Middle Circle; for a short time there was even a Super Outer Circle. None of these was ever a complete circle: the Outer Circle, for example, from 1872 until 1908 followed the North London and West London Railways from Broad Street station to Willesden Junction and Addison Road (now Kensington (Olympia)), then ran onto the District to terminate at Mansion House. Today Silverlink trains follow a similar half-circle route from Richmond to east London.

7 July 2005 Terrorist Attack

On 7 July 2005, two Circle Line trains were bombed. The blasts occurred almost simultaneously at 08:50 BST, one between Liverpool Street and Aldgate and the other on a train at Edgware Road, damaging that train, and causing a tunnel to collapse on another train passing through the station.

Following the attacks, the whole of the Circle Line was closed. While other lines re-opened on 8 July, the Circle line remained closed for several weeks, reopening a little less than a month after the attacks, on 4 August. At least 14 people were killed by the blasts in the Circle Line. A third attack occurred on the Piccadilly Line between King's Cross St Pancras and Russell Square.

See 7 July 2005 London Bombings for more information

Trains

All Circle line trains are in the distinctive London Underground livery of Red, White and Blue and are the larger size of the two sizes used on the network.

Map

Image:Circle Line.svg

Stations

in order, clockwise from Paddington

Trivia

A popular pub crawl, the Circle Line Pub Crawl aims to visit each of the Circle Line tube stations in turn, drinking a half pint or short in a pub near to each.

There were, in 2004, three occurrences of a Circle Line Party. These were promoted by grassroots organisations such as the Space Hijackers, and involve the "hijacking" of a Circle Line train.

The Circle Line runs LUL's C69 and C77 stock trains. Supposedly, each one can hold 1272 passengers, but this uses London Underground's figure of being able to fit seven people into one square metre.

External links

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