How The Tube Lines Got Their Names 

The deepest point of the Tube is at Hampstead and the highest point is the viaduct between Finchley Central and Mill Hill East, which are both on the Northern Line too. The Northern Line was named after the Northern Heights Plan. The line between Finchley Central and Edgware was going to link the two northern branches of the Northern Line. And an extension from Edgware to Bushey (Bushey Heath Station still wouldn't have been the northernmost). Well it has two branches in the north beyond Camden Town, and only one branch in the south beyond Kennington so Northern Line is a suitable name. But after the Kennington to Battersea extension opens, the intention is to split the Northern Line into two separate lines. Edgware to Battersea via Charing Cross would be remaned the West Northern Line and colour would remain black. And High Barnet to Morden via Bank would be renamed the East Northern Line and colour would become orange (the East London Line colour before it closed down).

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Quite so - that's what I thought too. Bridge - 1817. Station 1848. I suppose indirectly after the battle, but at one remove!

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The trombone line

The drunk lower case 'e' that's fell flat on its face line.

@@davepoole9520 Sounds like a schwa.

Alison- actually it was to be named after Fleet Street as it was to run West-East under it. Fleet Street is so called because it ran westwards out from the City, to cross Fleet river, which runs North-South into the Thames

There's a small town in Belgium named after the bridge.

battle is still the name's origin, then.

@@conscienceaginBlackadder Nope, it's the small town in Belgium.....

@@acciid Battle is a small town near Hastings.

@@fredcat9080 Indeed. I wonder how it got its name.

One of the two wildest moments I've had on a train was going through the crossovers leaving Bank station. I thought the carriage was going to scrape the tunnel wall. The other moment was in 1991 on the crossings at Finchley Central, after a night flight into Heathrow. I seriously thought we were 'on the floor'. I looked nervously at my wife, expecting a tirade, but she just stretched her legs among our suitcases on the floor and said "This is great, lots of room, much nicer than that horrible 747". So much for BOAC's flagship...

If there wasn't the word "you" in English, you could have said "taking the U".

​@@Wildcard71I suppose that's like the German U-bahn, short for untergrund bahb

For the Overground: Stratford to Richmond - North London Line Clapham to Willisden - West London Line. Some services continue to Stratford on the North London Line. Highbury to New Cross / Crystal Palace / West Croydon - East London Line. The Shoreditch to New Cross Section used to be part of the Tube as the East London Line, in orange on the map, and it shared its train stock with the Metropolitan Line. Clapham to Peckham Rye - South London Line. Services continue to Highbury on the East London Line. Gospel Oak to Barking - The Goblin Euston to Watford - Watford DC Line. The London Northwestern Railway services that run parallel to it are the Watford AC Line. Liverpool St to Chingford / Cheshunt / Enfield - Lee Valley Lines

@@katrinabryce Onl;y tiny error I'm seeing is "Lea" Valley mis-spelt; otherwise, I'd say bang on accurate!!👍😁

Geoff knows this, he mentioned it in Secrets of the Waterloo and City

@@xander1052 He didn't mention it in this video though which is a shame

Who cares?

It was built by the LSWR and incorporated into the post-grouping Southern.

Hi Train Stuff

I think you're right about the mileages.

He said that the word "Waterloo" was named after the battle, not the station.

@@OneKnifeYeHand Waterloo being named after the battle was in the same sentence as the origin of Baker in Baker Street, Bakerloo being between Baker Street station and Waterloo Station, the inference being that the Waterloo in question is the station. I've lived in Pendant a long time now.

and how much did it affect services?

People do use it for that: circlelinepubcrawl.co.uk/

Oh, he spoke so fast that I didn't notice!

Yeah, I noticed that slip of the tongue too.

The line for the Circus, the Circus for the street "Piccadilly," and the street because one of the major makers of piccadills had his shop there.

It's called the 507.

I worked in the City of London from 1968 to 1990 and it was prettty much "The Drain" to everyone who used it or talked about it. Why it had this well established nickname I don't know, perhaps because getting to it was a bit like getting flushed down a drain, also it had a very distinct "damp dog" smell which was quite unique compared to the other deep-level tube lines and also it had those strange-looking trains with tiny windows.

Yes people still call it this nowadays as it carries many people quickly from Waterloo, the busiest station in the UK, to the city

The nickname is still around. Wikipedia says that the origin of it is uncertain, but it might be something to do with the slope-like entrance to City Station (now upgraded with a travellator) or it might be something to do with the tunnel under The Thames leaking and needing to be pumped out. The deep level railways through London got the nickname "The Tube", because they are like underground pipes. I suspect that the nickname "The Drain" stuck, because the Waterloo & City Railway was a different thing to the Tube Lines. Every railway should have a nickname. I like the fact that the nickname for the Bakerloo line got turned into it's actual name and would love to see the Goblin Line get given official status.

@@DavidShepheard I wish the Victoria line had gotten named Viking for Victoria and King's Cross - apparently this was considered but they didn't go with it which is a great shame!

@@DavidShepheard tube came from the literal tube shape of the tunnels. We guess a pipe could be considered as a tube, but more so because the tunnels are round like a tube.

Viking line sounds awesome haha..

Bankerloo?

But then what was Victora Street named after?

@@OneKnifeYeHand exactly.

I have some early ones. Mine have Epping - Ongar as the Central Line extension.

I don't have a tube only map. Mine also have North London Line and Waterloo & City (which wasn't a tube line then) on.

Self-explaining.

Ha! Good question indeed, and one I'm not going to tackle. Geoff, care to have a go?😁

I was about to point that out haha

@@EdCoolBoy same lol

Perhaps Geoff knows something we don't. The W&C has been closed for nearly a year, perhaps it has transferred to the Overground and is being rebuilt to run seven car 'S' stock trains?????

@@danand725 well that would make it a sub surface tube, I more suspect that instead they will be bring back the old national rail stock code Rail Class 487 but paint it orange

@@xander1052 Aside from the fact that the class 487's have been dead for years, the W&C will be staying as it is, no need to panic ;)