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The Jubilee Line is a line on the London Underground, coloured silver grey on the Tube map.

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-kilometre 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 original choice of battleship grey for the line's colour was based on the naval meaning of the word fleet, now transformed into 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 stations at Aldwych, Ludgate Circus, Cannon Street and Fenchurch Street and then under the River Thames to New Cross, terminating at 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.

Trains

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

The 2005 Upgrade

At the end of 2005, the Jubilee Line is expected to close [1] 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

Geographical path of the Jubilee Line

Stations

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Inside a Jubilee Line carriage
A Jubilee Line train stopped at Canary Wharf tube station
A Jubilee Line train rushes through Canary Wharf tube station
The ticket hall of Canary Wharf tube station
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Outside Canada Water tube station

in order from west to east

External links

West: Crossings of the River Thames East:
Westminster Bridge Between Westminster
and Waterloo 		Bakerloo Line
between Embankment
and Waterloo
Rotherhithe Tunnel Between Canada Water
and Canary Wharf 		Greenwich foot tunnel
Docklands Light Railway
between Island Gardens
and Cutty Sark 		Between Canary Wharf
and North Greenwich 		Blackwall Tunnels
Blackwall Tunnels Between North Greenwich
and Canning Town 		Thames Barrier
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