This article is about the London Underground line. For other uses, see District line (disambiguation).
District line
A District line train at Wimbledon with a service to Edgware Road
Overview
Termini
Upminster
Richmond, Ealing Broadway and Wimbledon
Stations
60
Colour on map
Green
Website
tfl.gov.uk
Service
Type
Rapid transit
System
London Underground
Depot(s)
Upminster
Ealing Common
Lillie Bridge
Rolling stock
S7 Stock
Ridership
251.199 million (2019)[1] passenger journeys
History
Opened
24 December 1868; 155 years ago (1868-12-24)
Technical
Line length
64 km (40 mi)
Character
Sub-surface
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification
750V DC and 630V DC on sections used by the Piccadilly line
Operating speed
62 mph (100 km/h)
Signalling
CBTC (East of Barons Court/Fulham Broadway)
Tripcock/Trainstop (West of Barons Court/Fulham Broadway)
Transport for London rail lines
London Underground
Bakerloo
Central
Circle
District
Hammersmith & City
Jubilee
Metropolitan
Northern
Piccadilly
Victoria
Waterloo & City
London Overground
Liberty
Lioness
Mildmay
Suffragette
Weaver
Windrush
Other TfL Modes
DLR
Elizabeth line
London Trams
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The District line is a London Underground line running from Upminster in the east and Edgware Road in the west to Earl's Court in west London, where it splits into multiple branches. One branch runs to Wimbledon in south-west London and a short branch, with a limited service, only runs for one stop to Kensington (Olympia).[2] The main route continues west from Earl's Court to Turnham Green after which it divides again into two western branches, to Richmond and Ealing Broadway.
Printed in green on the Tube map, the line serves 60 stations (more than any other Underground line)[3] over 40 miles (64 km). It is the only Underground line to use a bridge to traverse the River Thames, crossing on both the Wimbledon and Richmond branches.[4] The track and stations between Barking and Aldgate East are shared with the Hammersmith & City line, and between Tower Hill and Gloucester Road and on the Edgware Road branch they are shared with the Circle line. Some of the stations between South Kensington and Ealing Common are shared with the Piccadilly line. Unlike London's deep-level lines, the railway tunnels are just below the surface, and the trains are of a similar size to those on British main lines.
The District line is the busiest of the sub-surface lines and the fifth-busiest line overall on the Underground, with over 250 million passenger journeys recorded in 2019.[5]
The original Metropolitan District Railway (as it was then called) opened in December 1868 from South Kensington to Westminster as part of a plan for a below-ground "inner circle" connecting London's main line termini. At first, services were operated using wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives. Electrification was financed by the American Charles Yerkes, and electric services began in 1905. The railway was absorbed by the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933. In the first half of the 1930s, the Piccadilly line took over the Uxbridge and Hounslow branches, although a peak-hour District line service ran on the Hounslow branch until 1964. Kensington (Olympia) has been served by the District line since 1946, and a short branch to South Acton closed in 1959. The trains carried guards until one-person operation was introduced in 1985.
The signalling system is being upgraded (as part of the Four Lines Modernisation project) as of September 2019 and the previous D Stock trains were fully replaced by seven-car S Stock trains in April 2017.
^"London Assembly Questions to the Mayor". London Assembly. 2022. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
^"District line working timetable No. 150" (PDF). Transport for London. 20 May 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
^The London Underground lines listed from longest to shortest - MyLondon, 13 Aug 2019
^Bayman, Bob (2000). Underground Official Handbook. Capital Transport. p. 43.
^"Greater London Authority Questions to the Mayor". Greater London Authority. 2022. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
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