Talk:Victoria line

Station spacing

The Service and rolling stock section says "because of its evenly spaced stations" - this is demonstrably untrue. Kings Cross is much closer to Euston (0.75 km) than to Highbury & Islington (2.43 km). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:52, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

And from H&I to Finsbury Park is one of the longest underground gaps in the network. Better get rid of that misinfo. —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 08:09, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

By "because of its evenly spaced stations" means you don't have the situation such as Leicester Square and Covent Garden being right next door to each other. The HMSO source also adds, "Finally, by having fewer stations than the Piccadilly Line between King's Cross and Finsbury Park, the Victoria Line would be faster over that stretch". I think "fewer stops" describes it best. Specifically, I was thinking about the "hack" from Morden to Kings Cross by getting on the Victoria at Stockwell instead of staying on the Northern, which is reportedly faster (though I didn't have a stopwatch). Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:46, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

I agree that's what it means; but "evenly-spaced" means something else to the reader, and is not a reflection of the source. It seems to have been adjusted though, so all's well. —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 09:50, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Perhaps "long-stretches between stations outside of Zone 1 / centre of London"; North of King's Cross there generally 2 kilometres / 1.5 miles between stops (Tottenhale Hale excepted). —Sladen (talk) 10:19, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Wrong dates

There is a problem with the dates, some of the stations opened in 1870s.. So how the hell did the line open in 1960s, a good 90 years later.150.101.100.140 (talk) 03:38, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Because this line was built to connect already-existing stations on other lines, and consequently every station on this line (with the exception of Pimlico) already existed before the Victoria Line was built. ‑ Iridescent 09:04, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Jean Charles de Menezes

There appears to be an edit war about whether the Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes belongs in this article. The source given is "Man shot in terror hunt was innocent young Brazilian" from The Observer, but this does not mention the Victoria line anywhere and says de Menezes was shot in Stockwell tube station. The article on the shooting does not mention the Victoria line; it implies that de Menezes was travelling from Stockwell to Kilburn tube station which would normally involve the Victoria line to Green Park and changing to the Jubilee, but it could also involve the Northern Line Charing Cross Branch and changing at Waterloo. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:40, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

I would argue that the Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes best belongs in the Stockwell tube station article. It's not notable to the Victoria line itself. Similar edits have been made to District line regarding the Parsons Green train bombing by the same IP editor - again, notable in the Parsons Green tube station article, but not the District line. Turini2 (talk) 14:18, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Ditto with Northern line too - similar looking edits from another IP. Turini2 (talk) 14:20, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

The entries are inaccurate, de Menezes was not a tourist but working as an electrician. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:47, 14 April 2021 (UTC)