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King's Cross St Pancras
There is a moment, when you emerge from King's Cross St Pancras station onto the redeveloped square outside, when you feel the full weight of what this place is.
Paddington
Paddington station has always been a gateway.
Oxford Circus
Oxford Circus station is the eye of the storm.
Baker Street
There is something fitting about the fact that Baker Street station is one of London's oldest, connecting the city since 10 January 1863 -the very day the world's first underground railway opened for business.
Liverpool Street
Liverpool Street station occupies a particular position in London's transport geography: it is simultaneously one of the most important commuter gateways in the UK and the jumping-off point for some of east London's most creative and culturally interesting neighbourhoods.
Waterloo
Waterloo Underground station sits at a point where several things converge: a city's busiest rail terminus, its greatest riverside cultural district, and a network of four tube lines that connect it to almost everywhere.
Victoria
Victoria Underground station is one of those places where London's sheer diversity of travellers becomes visible.
Westminster
No other station on the London Underground puts you as immediately in the presence of history as Westminster.
London Bridge
London Bridge station has one of the most remarkable views from any transport interchange in Europe.
Bank / Monument
There is a reason Bank and Monument station is named after two of the most significant buildings in London's financial history.
Canary Wharf
Arriving at Canary Wharf on the Jubilee line is one of the genuinely surprising experiences in London's transport network.
Green Park
Green Park occupies a particular position in central London's geography -it is the quietest of the Royal Parks, the closest Underground station to Buckingham Palace, and one of the most important interchanges on the network.
Leicester Square
Leicester Square is London's entertainment hub -the square itself ringed by major cinemas, the surrounding streets packed with theatres, restaurants and the chaos that results from millions of people doing leisure things simultaneously.
Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus is one of those names that carries weight before you arrive.
Covent Garden
Covent Garden station presents a paradox that is entirely London in character.
Tottenham Court Road
Tottenham Court Road station sits at one of central London's most significant crossroads -not just geographically, where Oxford Street meets Charing Cross Road, but culturally.
Bond Street
Bond Street station takes its name from one of the most storied streets in London retail history -a street where Tiffany, Cartier, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Graff and dozens of other luxury houses maintain flagship premises, and where the auction houses Sotheby's and Bonhams have been selling extraordinary things for centuries.
South Kensington
South Kensington station has a legitimate claim to being the most culturally generative stop on the entire Underground network.
Tower Hill
Tower Hill station is one of those London Underground stops where the gap between what is underground and what is above it produces a genuine sense of historic vertigo.
Stratford
Stratford station is the single most connected transport hub in east London -and arguably the most important station in London outside the central Zone 1 core.
Embankment
Embankment station puts you on the riverside at one of the most atmospheric stretches of the Thames.
Camden Town
Camden Town station on a Saturday afternoon is one of the more intense experiences the London Underground offers.
Notting Hill Gate
Notting Hill Gate station announces itself through contrast.
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is one of those west London stations that does several things simultaneously and does all of them reasonably well.
Wembley Park
Wembley Park station exists, to a significant degree, in relationship with the building it serves.
Heathrow Terminal 5
Heathrow Terminal 5 station sits at the western end of two of the most important lines in the London Underground network.
Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3
Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 station is the main Underground hub at Heathrow Airport, serving the largest passenger volumes of any station at the airport complex.
Brixton
Brixton station sits at the southern end of the Victoria line, and the neighbourhood it serves has one of the most complex and interesting identities of any in London.
Farringdon
Farringdon carries a distinction that no other station in the world can claim: it was part of the very first underground railway ever built.
Euston
Euston Underground station is the gateway to a particular kind of British journey -the intercity train north.
Moorgate
Moorgate station sits at one of the City of London's busiest junctions, where the financial district's towers meet the creative tech cluster around Old Street.
Charing Cross
Charing Cross occupies the geographic heart of London -not just in the commuter's mental map, but literally.
Holborn
Holborn station sits in one of London's most legally and academically significant districts.
Blackfriars
Blackfriars station takes its name from the Dominican friary that occupied this stretch of the Thames from 1278 until Henry VIII dissolved it in 1538.
Whitechapel
Whitechapel is one of the most historically layered places in London -a neighbourhood that has absorbed wave after wave of immigration, each community transforming the streets and leaving traces that persist long after the original settlers have dispersed.
Angel
Angel station has a distinction that most passengers discover while gripping the handrail with slightly more urgency than usual: the escalators here are the longest on the entire London Underground network.
Highbury & Islington
Highbury & Islington is a genuinely useful interchange in north London, connecting the Victoria line with the London Overground's East London line -a combination that allows orbital travel across the city without passing through the crowded central stations.
Warren Street
Warren Street is one of those Zone 1 stations that thrives precisely because it is not the obvious choice.
Morden
Morden holds a distinction that few Tube stations can claim: it is the southernmost station on the entire London Underground network.
Ealing Broadway
Ealing Broadway sits at a rare junction of history and modernity in west London.
Richmond
Richmond station sits at the end of the District line's western branch in what is arguably one of London's most pleasant destination towns.
Wimbledon
Wimbledon station means two things to two very different groups of people.
East Ham
East Ham station sits in the middle of one of east London's most culturally rich and densely populated boroughs.
Barking
Barking station is one of east London's most important transport interchanges, and it is a station that rewards a second look.
Mile End
Mile End is one of the more quietly useful interchanges in inner east London.
Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green is a Central line station in inner east London with two very different stories to tell.
Aldgate
Aldgate sits at one of London's oldest and most historically charged points.
Aldgate East
Aldgate East station occupies a particularly interesting piece of London real estate.
Shadwell
Shadwell station sits at a quiet but rewarding corner of east London, connecting the DLR and the London Overground in the riverside district of Wapping.
Bermondsey
Bermondsey station opened in 1999 as part of the Jubilee Line Extension and it still looks exactly like a building designed to impress.
Canada Water
Canada Water sits at a point of significant change in south-east London.
Rotherhithe
Rotherhithe station sits in the middle of one of the most historically layered corners of inner south-east London.
Oval
Oval station is named after one of English cricket's most venerable grounds.
Stockwell
Stockwell is an interchange station in inner south London where the Northern and Victoria lines cross paths, and it has developed a character that is distinct from either of the better-known neighbourhoods on either side of it.
Clapham Common
Clapham Common station opens directly onto one of south London's finest and most-used open spaces.
Tooting Broadway
Tooting Broadway is one of the Northern line's hidden gems -a station that places you at the centre of one of south London's most culturally diverse and genuinely vibrant high streets, far enough from Zone 1 to have kept its independent character but well-served enough to be worth making the journey.
Edgware
Edgware sits at the northern terminus of one of the Northern line's two Edgware branch routes, in a suburban north-west London location near the Hertfordshire border.
Finchley Central
Finchley Central is a Zone 4 Northern line station in the north London suburb of Finchley, and it has an unusual cultural footnote that has given it a modest fame beyond its actual significance.
Archway
Archway station sits at the foot of Highgate Hill in north London, at a point where the character of the city shifts noticeably.
Golders Green
Golders Green is a Northern line station in north-west London with a character shaped almost entirely by its large and well-established Jewish community.
Elephant & Castle
Elephant and Castle station sits at one of south London's most historically significant junctions, where two Underground lines meet in a neighbourhood that has been in near-constant transformation for the past two decades.
Lambeth North
Lambeth North is one of those Zone 1 stations that many Londoners walk straight past when they have a choice.
Marylebone
Marylebone Underground station brings you out into one of central London's most liveable neighbourhoods, a place that manages to feel genuinely local despite sitting fifteen minutes from the busiest parts of the West End.
Edgware Road
Edgware Road has two Underground stations within 300 metres of each other and sharing almost the same name - a situation that confuses even regular Tube users.
Warwick Avenue
Warwick Avenue station deposits you almost directly into Little Venice, which remains one of the most quietly beautiful corners of west London.
Maida Vale
Maida Vale station sits in one of London's most consistently attractive residential neighbourhoods.
Kilburn Park
Kilburn Park station is a straightforward Bakerloo line stop in north-west London serving a neighbourhood that is both genuinely diverse and steadily changing.
Queen's Park
Queen's Park station straddles two worlds: the Bakerloo line beneath and the London Overground above, with the sought-after residential neighbourhood of Queen's Park spread out around it.
Kensal Green
Kensal Green sits at the junction of several very different Londons.
Willesden Junction
Willesden Junction is the kind of station that makes north-west London function.
Harlesden
Harlesden station serves one of London's most authentic and energetic neighbourhoods, a place where the Caribbean and West African communities that arrived from the 1950s onwards built something that remains visibly distinct from the rest of north-west London.
Stonebridge Park
Stonebridge Park is a local commuter station on the Bakerloo line and London Overground, serving the Stonebridge area of Brent between Harlesden and Wembley Central.
Wembley Central
Wembley Central station is one of two key Underground access points for the Wembley entertainment complex, alongside Wembley Park on the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines.
North Wembley
North Wembley is a quiet residential Bakerloo line station in the suburban stretch between Wembley Central to the south and South Kenton to the north.
South Kenton
South Kenton is a quiet suburban interchange on the Bakerloo line and London Overground, sitting in the residential stretch between North Wembley and Kenton on the north-west corridor out of Paddington.
Kenton
Kenton is a suburban Bakerloo line and Overground station in the stretch between Wembley and Harrow, serving the residential streets of Kenton and the surrounding area.
Harrow & Wealdstone
Harrow and Wealdstone station sits at the northern end of the Bakerloo line, the terminus where all trains heading north-west from Paddington and the West End finally stop.
West Ruislip
West Ruislip is the western terminus of the Central line and one of those end-of-the-line stations where the Underground's transition from city transport to something closer to a rural bus service feels most pronounced.
Ruislip Gardens
Ruislip Gardens is a quiet suburban Central line station between West Ruislip and South Ruislip, serving the post-war Ruislip Gardens estate that was built in the late 1940s alongside the Central line extension itself.
South Ruislip
South Ruislip is a Central line station in the London Borough of Hillingdon, serving a mixed residential and light industrial area between Ruislip Gardens to the west and Northolt to the east.
Northolt
Northolt station is a Central line stop in the London Borough of Ealing, serving the suburban town of Northolt on the western edge of the borough.
Greenford
Greenford is one of the few surface-level stations on the Central line's western branch and one of a small number with step-free access in this part of the network.
Perivale
Perivale station is a quiet suburban stop on the Central line's western branch, serving the Perivale neighbourhood in the London Borough of Ealing.
Hanger Lane
Hanger Lane station is best known, at least among the portion of the population that listens to traffic reports, for giving its name to one of the UK's most persistently congested road junctions.
North Acton
North Acton is a Central line station in west London where the two western branches of the line converge.
East Acton
East Acton station is a Central line stop in west London that sits between the residential streets of East Acton and the large open expanse of Wormwood Scrubs.
White City
White City station is one of those Zone 2 stations that punches well above its weight in terms of what is accessible from it.
Shepherd's Bush Market
Shepherd's Bush Market station sits directly alongside one of west London's most vibrant and long-established street markets, which gives the station an atmosphere that most Hammersmith and City line stops lack.
Holland Park
Holland Park station is one of those Zone 2 stops that many people in central London underuse because they forget it exists.
Queensway
Queensway station is on the Zone 1 stretch of the Central line between Notting Hill Gate and Lancaster Gate, giving access to Hyde Park's northern side via Bayswater Gate and to Queensway street itself, which is one of central London's more unexpectedly lively shopping and dining corridors.
Lancaster Gate
Lancaster Gate station sits on the north side of Hyde Park along Bayswater Road, in a location that is genuinely useful for anyone wanting to explore the park's western reaches and Kensington Gardens.
Chancery Lane
Chancery Lane station sits at the centre of London's legal world.
St. Paul's
St Paul's station is one of those London Underground stops where you emerge from the escalators and the impact of what is immediately outside hits you immediately.
Leyton
Leyton station is a Central line stop in east London that serves one of the capital's more understated residential neighbourhoods.
Leytonstone
Leytonstone station has a claim to artistic fame that most underground stations lack: Alfred Hitchcock, the director of Psycho, Vertigo and The Birds, was born at 517 High Road, Leytonstone, in 1899.
Snaresbrook
Snaresbrook station occupies one of the more attractive settings on the Central line's eastern branch.
South Woodford
South Woodford is one of the more comfortable suburban Central line stations, sitting at the top of a lively local shopping street that gives the neighbourhood a genuine town centre feel.
Woodford
Woodford station is the junction point where the Central line branches - trains alternate between the route heading north to Buckhurst Hill, Loughton and Epping, and the loop heading east through Roding Valley and Chigwell to Hainault.
Buckhurst Hill
Buckhurst Hill station sits on the edge of Epping Forest in Essex, within reasonable cycling or walking distance of some of the forest's most accessible paths and open glades.
Loughton
Loughton is one of the most satisfying stops on the Central line's Epping branch, combining a genuinely functional Essex market town with immediate access to Epping Forest.
Debden
Debden station is a functional Central line stop in Essex, serving the Debden housing estate in the parish of Loughton.
Theydon Bois
Theydon Bois is one of the most genuinely rural stops on the entire London Underground network, a small Essex village sitting directly on the edge of Epping Forest where the idea of being in one of the world's largest cities stops feeling real.
Epping
Epping is the end of the line.
Newbury Park
Newbury Park station has a piece of architectural history that most passengers walk straight past without noticing.
Barkingside
Barkingside station has an unusual historical footnote: it sits close to the site where Thomas Barnardo, the Victorian philanthropist who founded what became one of the UK's leading children's charities, established the Village Home for Girls in 1876.
Fairlop
Fairlop station is one of the more outdoors-friendly stops on the Central line's Hainault loop, sitting close to Fairlop Waters - a leisure park with a country park, water sports centre, golf course and camping facilities that collectively form one of the larger open-air leisure destinations in east London.
Hainault
Hainault station is the central junction of the Central line's Hainault loop, where trains from both directions - from Woodford via Roding Valley and Chigwell, and from Newbury Park via Barkingside and Fairlop - converge before circling back.
Grange Hill
Grange Hill station on the Central line's Hainault loop shares its name with the long-running BBC school drama that ran from 1978 to 2008, making it one of the more recognisable station names in east London for anyone who grew up watching British television.
Chigwell
Chigwell station serves one of Essex's most affluent and historically interesting villages.
Roding Valley
Roding Valley station holds a genuinely unusual distinction: it is consistently the least-used station on the entire London Underground network.
Vauxhall
Vauxhall sits at one of the more dramatic intersections of old and new London.
Pimlico
Pimlico is one of central London's quieter Zone 1 stations, which makes it more useful than it first appears.
Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters is a Victoria line station in the heart of Tottenham, north-east London, and it carries a significance that goes well beyond its role as a commuter interchange.
Tottenham Hale
Tottenham Hale is one of north-east London's most important transport interchange stations.
Blackhorse Road
Blackhorse Road is a Victoria line and Overground interchange in north-east Walthamstow, and it has developed a cultural identity that was unexpected until about 2015.
Walthamstow Central
Walthamstow Central is the north-eastern terminus of the Victoria line and one of east London's most complete town centre stations.
Finsbury Park
Finsbury Park station is north London's most important transport interchange outside the Zone 1 boundary.
Manor House
Manor House station puts you at the junction of some of north London's most interesting neighbourhoods.
Turnpike Lane
Turnpike Lane is a Piccadilly line station in north London that serves both as a commuter stop and as a major bus interchange for the surrounding Haringey area.
Wood Green
Wood Green is a busy Piccadilly line station in north London, serving one of the area's most active town centres and providing the closest Underground access to Alexandra Palace.
Bounds Green
Bounds Green is one of the quieter stops on the Piccadilly line's northern branch, serving the residential communities between Wood Green and Arnos Grove.
Arnos Grove
Arnos Grove station is one of the most celebrated pieces of architecture on the entire London Underground network.
Southgate
Southgate station is one of the most architecturally celebrated on the entire Piccadilly line, designed by Charles Holden in 1933 as part of his landmark series of circular drum tower station buildings for the northern extensions.
Oakwood
Oakwood station is a Piccadilly line stop in the London Borough of Enfield, one stop before the Cockfosters terminus and another of Charles Holden's late 1920s and 1930s station designs for the northern Piccadilly extensions.
Cockfosters
Cockfosters is the north-eastern terminus of the Piccadilly line, positioned at the very edge of the London conurbation where the suburban streets of Enfield give way to open countryside.
Stanmore
Stanmore station sits at the north-western end of the Jubilee line, the last stop before all trains turn around and head south-east towards central London and the Docklands.
Canons Park
Canons Park station is a quiet Jubilee line stop in the outer north-west London suburbs, serving a residential area between Stanmore and Queensbury.
Queensbury
Queensbury station is a Jubilee line stop in the north-west London suburbs, serving the residential area of Queensbury in the London Borough of Harrow.
Kingsbury
Kingsbury station is one of the more rewarding Jubilee line outer stops for nature lovers and food enthusiasts alike.
Neasden
Neasden is a Jubilee line station in north-west London that carries one genuinely extraordinary destination: the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir, the largest Hindu temple outside India.
Dollis Hill
Dollis Hill is a quiet Jubilee line station in north-west London serving a predominantly residential area.
Willesden Green
Willesden Green is a Jubilee line station in north-west London with a history stretching back to 1879 - one of the older stations on the line.
Kilburn
Kilburn is a Jubilee line station in Zone 2 serving one of north London's most energetic and unpretentious high streets.
West Hampstead
West Hampstead is a Jubilee line and Overground interchange in north London at the centre of one of the area's most consistently popular residential neighbourhoods.
Swiss Cottage
Swiss Cottage is a Jubilee line station in north London sitting between St John's Wood to the south and Hampstead to the north.
St John's Wood
St John's Wood is a Jubilee line station that serves two of the most visited sites in north London: Lord's Cricket Ground and the Abbey Road zebra crossing.
Southwark
Southwark station is one of the architectural highlights of the 1999 Jubilee Line Extension.
North Greenwich
North Greenwich is a Jubilee line station positioned at one of London's most dramatic transformation points - the Greenwich Peninsula, a former industrial site that now hosts the O2 Arena, a growing residential neighbourhood, and one of the most distinctive modern station buildings on the Underground network.
Canning Town
Canning Town is one of east London's most important transport hubs, and one that has changed dramatically over the past two decades.
West Ham
West Ham is one of east London's most significant transport interchanges - a four-line station connecting the Jubilee line, District line, Hammersmith and City line and the DLR, with National Rail services also calling at the adjacent station.
High Barnet
High Barnet is the northern terminus of the Northern line's High Barnet branch, a Zone 5 station close to the Hertfordshire border where London's suburban development finally gives way to something approaching genuine countryside.
Totteridge & Whetstone
Totteridge and Whetstone station serves one of London's most remarkable residential areas.
Woodside Park
Woodside Park station is a Northern line stop in north London, serving the residential areas of Woodside Park and North Finchley.
West Finchley
West Finchley is a quiet residential Northern line station on the High Barnet branch in the London Borough of Barnet.
Mill Hill East
Mill Hill East station occupies an unusual place in the Northern line network.
Burnt Oak
Burnt Oak station serves one of London's most authentically diverse neighbourhoods.
Colindale
Colindale station is the tube stop for the RAF Museum London, one of Britain's best aviation museums and one of the capital's finest free days out.
Hendon Central
Hendon Central is a Northern line station in north-west London that serves as a useful commuter stop and interchange for buses across the borough of Barnet.
Brent Cross
Brent Cross station is best known for its proximity to Brent Cross Shopping Centre - one of the UK's first purpose-built out-of-town shopping malls, opened in 1976.
Hampstead
Hampstead station holds two distinctions simultaneously: it is the gateway to one of London's finest neighbourhoods and it contains the deepest platforms on the entire Underground network.
Belsize Park
Belsize Park is a Northern line Zone 2 station in one of north London's most attractive residential neighbourhoods - leafy streets of grand Victorian and Edwardian villas, excellent independent restaurants along Belsize Lane and England's Lane, and a quiet affluence that feels a world away from central London despite being 15 minutes by tube.
Chalk Farm
Chalk Farm station occupies a position between two of north London's most famous attractions: Camden Market to the south and Primrose Hill to the north-west.
Tufnell Park
Tufnell Park is a Northern line Zone 2 station between Kentish Town and Archway on the High Barnet branch.
Kentish Town
Kentish Town is a Northern line station in Zone 2 that has tracked north London's broader story of the past 30 years - from a working-class neighbourhood with few pretensions to a mixed, increasingly expensive area where independent coffee shops, wine bars and design studios have settled alongside the long-established Caribbean and South Asian businesses that have always been part of its character.
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark DLR station deposits you into one of the finest concentrations of heritage in Greater London.
Greenwich
Greenwich DLR station is the town-centre entry point for one of London's finest day-trip destinations - the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Maritime Greenwich.
Lewisham
Lewisham station is the southern terminus of the DLR, bringing the Docklands Light Railway to the heart of a major south-east London town centre.
Arsenal
Arsenal Underground station sits quietly on the Piccadilly line for most of the year -and then 90,000 people suddenly need it at once.
Caledonian Road
Caledonian Road station sits on the Piccadilly line in Zone 2, tucked between King's Cross and Holloway in one of north London's most unvarnished neighbourhoods.
Holloway Road
Holloway Road station occupies a stretch of north London that most visitors skip entirely, but it has a character all its own.
Russell Square
Russell Square station sits in the middle of Bloomsbury, one of the most intellectually charged square miles in London.
Knightsbridge
Step out of Knightsbridge station and you are immediately in one of the most expensive postcodes on earth.
Hyde Park Corner
Hyde Park Corner station places you at one of the most historically charged intersections in London.
Gloucester Road
Gloucester Road station serves three Underground lines in Zone 1, positioned just south-west of the great South Kensington museum quarter.
Barons Court
Barons Court station is one of those west London stops that regulars are quietly fond of.
Hatton Cross
Hatton Cross station is the Piccadilly line stop immediately before the Heathrow Airport terminal stations, serving the ring of hotels, cargo facilities and support businesses that surround the airport.
Heathrow Terminal 4
Heathrow Terminal 4 is a Piccadilly line Zone 6 station serving the terminal used primarily by Sky Team alliance airlines including Air France, KLM and Delta.
Osterley
Osterley station is a Piccadilly line stop in west London that serves primarily as the gateway to Osterley Park, one of the National Trust's finest West London properties.
Boston Manor
Boston Manor station is a quiet Piccadilly line stop in Hanwell, west London, providing access to Boston Manor Park and its Jacobean manor house.
Northfields
Northfields station is a Piccadilly line stop in the London Borough of Ealing, notable for having the Piccadilly line depot adjacent to it - the primary maintenance facility for Piccadilly line trains on the network.
South Ealing
South Ealing station is a Piccadilly line stop in west London serving the residential South Ealing neighbourhood in the London Borough of Ealing.
North Ealing
North Ealing is a quiet Piccadilly line station in west London, serving a residential area on the Uxbridge branch of the line.
Park Royal
Park Royal station serves one of Europe's largest industrial areas - the Park Royal industrial estate, which covers about 1,000 acres in north-west London and houses over 1,600 businesses including food manufacturers, logistics companies and warehouses.
Alperton
Alperton station serves a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Brent with a large and long-established Gujarati Indian community.
Sudbury Town
Sudbury Town station is one of Charles Holden's greatest achievements in Underground design, and one of the most celebrated pieces of modernist architecture in London.
Sudbury Hill
Sudbury Hill is a Piccadilly line station in the London Borough of Harrow, sitting in the residential stretch between Sudbury Town to the south and South Harrow to the north.
South Harrow
South Harrow station is a Piccadilly line stop in the London Borough of Harrow, serving a residential area with good bus connections to Harrow town centre and surrounding districts.
Rayners Lane
Rayners Lane is an interchange station where the Piccadilly line branches off the Metropolitan line tracks, heading south-west towards Uxbridge while the Metropolitan continues north-east towards Pinner and Harrow-on-the-Hill.
Eastcote
Eastcote station serves a pleasant suburban village in the London Borough of Hillingdon that retains a genuinely local character.
Hillingdon
Hillingdon station is a Metropolitan and Piccadilly line stop in the outer London Borough of Hillingdon, rebuilt in 1994 to a modern, distinctive design by the architect Matthew Priestman.
Earl's Court
Earl's Court is one of the London Underground's most important junctions, and one that repays understanding before you arrive.
West Kensington
West Kensington station is a District line stop in Zone 2, sitting on the Wimbledon branch between Earl's Court and Barons Court.
Fulham Broadway
Fulham Broadway is a District line station in Zone 2 that serves two very different roles depending on the day.
Parsons Green
Parsons Green is a District line station in Zone 2 serving one of south-west London's most characterful neighbourhood greens.
Putney Bridge
Putney Bridge station sits on the north bank of the Thames at the point where Putney Bridge crosses from Fulham into Putney - one of the more attractive Thames crossings in west London.
East Putney
East Putney station is a District line stop in south-west London, serving the residential East Putney neighbourhood between Putney Bridge to the north and Southfields to the south on the Wimbledon branch.
Southfields
Southfields is best known to the wider world for two weeks every June and July, when it becomes the primary Underground station for the Wimbledon Championships.
Wimbledon Park
Wimbledon Park station is the penultimate stop on the District line's Wimbledon branch before the terminus.
Stamford Brook
Stamford Brook station is a quiet District line stop in Zone 2 on the Richmond branch, situated between Turnham Green and Chiswick Park in the London Borough of Hounslow.
Turnham Green
Turnham Green is a District and Piccadilly line station at the centre of Chiswick, one of west London's most consistently desirable residential neighbourhoods.
Chiswick Park
Chiswick Park station is a District line stop in Zone 3 between Turnham Green and Acton Town, serving the Gunnersbury and South Acton areas.
Acton Town
Acton Town is a District and Piccadilly line interchange in Zone 3 that handles a specific and important function: it is one of the points where Piccadilly line trains diverge between the Heathrow branch and the other west London branches.
Gunnersbury
Gunnersbury is a District line station in Zone 3 on the Richmond branch, also served by the London Overground.
Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens station is the gateway to one of the world's great botanical collections.
Ealing Common
Ealing Common is a District and Piccadilly line station in Zone 3 that serves the pleasant open green of the same name.
West Brompton
West Brompton is a District line and Overground station in Zone 2 sitting directly beside Brompton Cemetery - one of the Victorian "Magnificent Seven" garden cemeteries and one of London's most beautiful open spaces.
Bayswater
Bayswater is a District and Circle line station in Zone 1 on the north side of Hyde Park, serving the cosmopolitan neighbourhood of the same name.
High Street Kensington
High Street Kensington is a District and Circle line station at the commercial centre of Kensington, one of London's most distinctly upmarket boroughs.
Sloane Square
Sloane Square is a District and Circle line station at the junction of Chelsea and Belgravia in Zone 1.
Temple
Temple station sits in one of London's most historically concentrated corners - a Zone 1 District and Circle line station surrounded by the ancient legal district that has housed lawyers and the courts for centuries.
Mansion House
Mansion House is a District and Circle line station in the heart of the City of London, sitting at a particularly dense intersection of historical and financial London.
Cannon Street
Cannon Street is a City of London station integrating District and Circle line Underground services with the Cannon Street National Rail terminus above.
Monument
Monument station is connected by a subterranean passageway to Bank station, and together they form one of the largest interchange complexes on the Underground network.
Stepney Green
Stepney Green is a Zone 2 station on the District and Hammersmith & City lines, sitting between Whitechapel and Mile End in one of Tower Hamlets' most characterful areas.
Bow Road
Bow Road is a Zone 2 station on the District and Hammersmith & City lines in east London's Bow area.
Plaistow
Plaistow is a Zone 3 station on the District and Hammersmith & City lines in Newham, east London.
Upton Park
Upton Park is a Zone 3 station on the District and Hammersmith & City lines in Newham, east London.
Bromley-by-Bow
Bromley-by-Bow is a Zone 2 station on the District and Hammersmith & City lines in east London.
Becontree
Becontree station sits in the middle of one of the largest council housing estates in the world.
Dagenham Heathway
Dagenham Heathway station serves the Heathway shopping area in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, one of the main commercial centres of the Dagenham community.
Dagenham East
Dagenham East station is a District line stop in east London, notable for its proximity to Eastbrookend Country Park and the Beam Parklands - a connected series of nature reserves and open spaces along the River Beam on the eastern edge of Dagenham.
Elm Park
Elm Park station is a quiet District line stop in the London Borough of Havering, serving the residential suburb of Elm Park near the eastern end of the District line.
Hornchurch
Hornchurch station serves a historic Essex town that became part of the London Borough of Havering in 1965, retaining a distinct community character that feels closer to a market town than inner London suburbia.
Upminster Bridge
Upminster Bridge is the penultimate station on the District line's eastern branch, one stop before the Upminster terminus.
Upminster
Upminster station is the eastern terminus of the District line, sitting in the outer London Borough of Havering close to the Essex border.
Kensington (Olympia)
Kensington Olympia station is the Underground stop for the Olympia London exhibition and events venue, one of the larger indoor event spaces in the capital.
Nine Elms
Nine Elms opened in 2021 as one of two stations on the Northern line's Battersea extension, the first new Underground line in central London since the Jubilee Line Extension in 1999.
Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station is the southern terminus of the Northern line's Battersea extension, opened in September 2021.
Mornington Crescent
Mornington Crescent is a Northern line station in Zone 2 sitting between Camden Town and Euston, and it carries an unusual cultural distinction: it is the most famous Tube station name in British comedy.
Goodge Street
Goodge Street sits in the heart of Fitzrovia - the neighbourhood between Bloomsbury, Soho and Marylebone that has long been home to creative industries, media companies, architects and advertising agencies.
Borough
Borough station opened in 1890 as part of the City and South London Railway - the world's first deep-level electric underground railway - making it one of the oldest Tube stations still in operation.
Kennington
Kennington is the critical junction point on the Northern line.
Clapham North
Clapham North is a Northern line station at the northern end of Clapham High Street - the main commercial strip of one of south London's most active nightlife and dining areas.
Clapham South
Clapham South is a Northern line station in Zone 2 between Clapham Common and Balham, serving the southern residential reaches of the Clapham area.
Balham
Balham is a Northern line station in Zone 3 that has earned a quiet but genuine reputation as one of south London's better places to eat and drink.
Tooting Bec
Tooting Bec station is the closest Underground access point to Tooting Bec Lido - at 91 metres, one of the largest outdoor swimming pools in the UK.
Colliers Wood
Colliers Wood is a Northern line station in Zone 3 between Tooting Broadway and South Wimbledon.
South Wimbledon
South Wimbledon is a Northern line station in Zone 3, one stop north of Morden (the line's southern terminus).
East Finchley
East Finchley station has one of the most distinctive appearances of any station on the Northern line, thanks to the bronze archer created by sculptor Eric Aumonier that stands on the station's roof, his arrow aimed symbolically down the line towards central London.
Highgate
Highgate station gives access to one of north London's finest and most historically layered villages.
Royal Oak
Royal Oak is one of the quietest Circle and Hammersmith and City line stations in the entire network, sitting in Zone 2 between Paddington and Westbourne Park in what is primarily a residential part of west London.
Westbourne Park
Westbourne Park station is a Circle and Hammersmith and City line stop in Zone 2, serving the residential area north of Notting Hill Gate and within walking distance of the famous Portobello Road Market.
Ladbroke Grove
Ladbroke Grove station sits in North Kensington at the heart of the area most associated with the Notting Hill Carnival - Europe's largest street festival, held annually on the August Bank Holiday weekend and drawing around two million people to the surrounding streets.
Latimer Road
Latimer Road station is a Circle and Hammersmith and City line stop in North Kensington, known as the nearest Underground station to Grenfell Tower - the residential block where a catastrophic fire on 14 June 2017 killed 72 people, the worst structural fire in the UK since the Second World War.
Wood Lane
Wood Lane is one of London's newer Underground stations, opened in 2008 as part of the Hammersmith and City and Circle line reconfiguration in the White City area.
Goldhawk Road
Goldhawk Road station is a Circle and Hammersmith and City line stop in Zone 2, serving the residential area between Shepherd's Bush Market and the Ravenscourt Park area.
Euston Square
Euston Square is one of the original stations on the world's first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863 as part of the Metropolitan Railway's inaugural service between Paddington and Farringdon.
Great Portland Street
Great Portland Street station is a Zone 1 stop on the Circle, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan lines in Fitzrovia, one of the original stations on the world's first underground railway opened in 1863.
Barbican
Barbican station gives access to one of London's most ambitious and divisive post-war urban projects: the Barbican estate.
Edgware Road
Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith and City lines) is one of the original Metropolitan Railway stations from 1863, and one of two stations sharing the Edgware Road name in this part of central London - the other, on the Bakerloo line, is 300 metres to the north.
Finchley Road
Finchley Road station is where the Jubilee line's tracks diverge from the Metropolitan line in north London - an important operational junction that passengers experience as a useful interchange point between two different routes into the same central London destinations.
Harrow-on-the-Hill
Harrow-on-the-Hill station sits at the foot of the hill from which the town takes its name, a hill that has been inhabited for at least 2,000 years and that carries on its summit one of the most recognisable combinations of architecture and landscape in outer London.
North Harrow
North Harrow station is a quiet Metropolitan line stop in the London Borough of Harrow, serving the residential suburb between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Pinner.
Pinner
Pinner station serves one of the most genuinely attractive historic villages in the whole of Greater London.
Northwick Park
Northwick Park station serves the Northwick Park Hospital campus and the University of Westminster's Harrow campus in the London Borough of Harrow.
Chorleywood
Chorleywood station is in Hertfordshire, beyond the M25 motorway, which means arriving here by Underground already feels like a genuine journey into the countryside.
Rickmansworth
Rickmansworth station serves the Hertfordshire market town of Rickmansworth - locally known as Ricky - at the point where the Metropolitan line enters the Colne Valley.
Croxley
Croxley station is on the Metropolitan line's Watford branch in Hertfordshire, serving the residential area of Croxley Green.
Watford
Watford Metropolitan station is the terminus of the Metropolitan line's Watford branch, but it is important to note that this station is not the same as Watford Junction - the main National Rail hub on the other side of Watford town centre.
Northwood
Northwood station serves the affluent outer London suburb of Northwood in the London Borough of Hillingdon, a well-regarded residential area in the Green Belt with a pleasant high street and good access to woodland walking in Copse Wood and the surrounding Hertfordshire countryside.
Northwood Hills
Northwood Hills station is a quiet Metropolitan line stop in the London Borough of Hillingdon, serving the residential Northwood Hills suburb between Northwood and Pinner.
Ruislip
Ruislip station is one of the outer Metropolitan and Piccadilly line stops that genuinely rewards a visit.
Ruislip Manor
Ruislip Manor station is a Metropolitan and Piccadilly line stop in the London Borough of Hillingdon, serving the residential Ruislip Manor area between Ruislip and Eastcote.
Chalfont & Latimer
Chalfont and Latimer station is in Zone 8 in Buckinghamshire - genuinely deep in the Chiltern Hills, beyond the M25, in countryside that was farmland long before the Metropolitan Railway arrived in 1889.
Chesham
Chesham is the most remote station on the London Underground network, reached by a single-track shuttle service from Chalfont and Latimer in Zone 8, and sitting in Zone 9 in the heart of the Chiltern Hills.
Amersham
Amersham station is the end of the line on the Metropolitan line's Amersham branch, and one of the most rewarding destinations on the entire Underground network for those who enjoy proper countryside, historic market towns and good food.
Regent's Park
Regent's Park station is one of central London's quieter Zone 1 stops - a Bakerloo line station that sits between Baker Street and Oxford Circus but handles a fraction of their passenger volumes because it serves a park rather than a commercial district.
Wanstead
Wanstead station serves one of east London's more underrated residential villages.
Gants Hill
Gants Hill station has a distinction shared by very few stations in London: it was deliberately designed to look like a Moscow Metro station.
Redbridge
Redbridge station is a quiet Central line stop in the London Borough of Redbridge, serving the residential area between Wanstead to the west and Gants Hill to the east.
Marble Arch
Marble Arch is a Central line station at the north-east corner of Hyde Park, at the point where Oxford Street meets the park boundary and Park Lane turns south toward Mayfair.
Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush Central line station is one of west London's most useful interchange points, sitting directly adjacent to Westfield London - one of Europe's largest urban shopping centres - and providing quick access to both the Overground and the Hammersmith and City line's Shepherd's Bush Market station nearby.
West Acton
West Acton is a quiet residential Central line station on the Ealing Broadway branch, sitting between the larger town centre station at Ealing Broadway and the branch junction at North Acton.
New Cross
New Cross station is an Overground stop in south-east London serving a neighbourhood that has had a strong arts, music and countercultural presence for several decades, shaped significantly by the proximity of Goldsmiths University.
New Cross Gate
New Cross Gate station is on the London Overground in south-east London, serving the New Cross Gate and Telegraph Hill areas.
Tower Gateway
Tower Gateway DLR station is one of the original stations from the DLR's opening in 1987, sitting at the eastern edge of the City of London beside the old gatehouse that gives the station its name.
Woolwich Arsenal
Woolwich Arsenal DLR station opened in 2009, serving the extensive Royal Arsenal regeneration project that transformed the former military ordnance site - the Royal Arsenal, which operated from the 17th century until the 1960s - into a mixed residential, retail and cultural development.
Mudchute
Mudchute DLR station is named for one of London's most pleasant urban surprises: Mudchute Park and Farm, one of the largest urban farms in Europe, which occupies a substantial area of the Isle of Dogs right in the middle of the Docklands.
Poplar
Poplar is one of the original DLR stations from 1987, sitting at the intersection of multiple DLR routes in the heart of the former East End docklands.
West India Quay
West India Quay is a DLR station perched above the historic West India Docks -the first enclosed wet docks in London, built between 1800 and 1806 to handle the booming Caribbean sugar and rum trade.
Heron Quays
Heron Quays is a DLR Zone 2 station on the Isle of Dogs, sandwiched between Canary Wharf and South Quay.
South Quay
South Quay is a DLR Zone 2 station on the Isle of Dogs serving the residential and office developments along the South Dock.
Crossharbour
Crossharbour is a DLR Zone 2 station on the southern Isle of Dogs, serving the Crossharbour and Millwall area.
Island Gardens
Island Gardens is the southern terminus of one DLR branch, sitting at the very tip of the Isle of Dogs with one of the most photographed views in London -a direct sightline across the Thames to the Old Royal Naval College, the National Maritime Museum and the Cutty Sark at Greenwich.
Devons Road
Devons Road is a DLR Zone 2 station in Bow, east London, on the Stratford branch between Langdon Park and Bow Church.
Langdon Park
Langdon Park is a DLR Zone 2 station that opened in 2007 between Devons Road and All Saints, serving the residential Poplar area.
Bow Church
Bow Church is a DLR Zone 2 station in Bow, east London, named after the medieval St Mary Stratford Bow church nearby.
Pudding Mill Lane
Pudding Mill Lane is a DLR Zone 3 station in Stratford, east London, serving the area south of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Royal Victoria
Royal Victoria is a DLR Zone 3 station in the Royal Docks area, serving the ExCeL London exhibition centre and the surrounding Royal Victoria Dock.
Custom House
Custom House is a DLR Zone 3 station in the Royal Docks, best known as the stop for ExCeL London's eastern entrance.
Prince Regent
Prince Regent is a DLR Zone 3 station on the Beckton branch between Custom House and Royal Albert, serving the residential streets and emerging developments of the Royal Docks area.
Royal Albert
Royal Albert is a DLR Zone 3 station on the Beckton branch, named after the Royal Albert Dock -one of the three Royal Docks that made east London the world's busiest port in the Victorian era.
Beckton Park
Beckton Park is a DLR Zone 3 station on the Beckton branch, serving the Beckton Park area and providing access to the Beckton District Park -a large open space created on the former site of the Beckton Gas Works.
Cyprus
Cyprus is a DLR Zone 3 station on the Beckton branch between Beckton Park and Gallions Reach, serving the residential Cyprus and Gallions Reach area.
Gallions Reach
Gallions Reach is a DLR Zone 3 station at the eastern end of the Royal Docks, serving the Gallions Reach Retail Park -a large out-of-town shopping destination with IKEA, Lidl and other major retailers.
Beckton
Beckton is the eastern terminus of the DLR Beckton branch, serving the residential Beckton area in Newham.
Deptford Bridge
Deptford Bridge is a DLR Zone 2 station in south-east London, opened in 1999 as part of the extension to Lewisham.
Elverson Road
Elverson Road is a DLR Zone 2 station between Deptford Bridge and Lewisham on the Lewisham branch.
King George V
King George V is a DLR Zone 3 station that serves as the gateway to London City Airport -the station is connected directly to the terminal by a short pedestrian walkway, making it the quickest and most convenient way to reach the airport.
Star Lane
Star Lane is a DLR Zone 3 station on the Stratford High Street branch, which serves the Canning Town to Stratford corridor.
Stratford High Street
Stratford High Street is a DLR Zone 3 station on the Stratford High Street branch between Star Lane and Stratford.
Stratford International
Stratford International is a DLR Zone 3 station adjacent to the Stratford International high-speed rail station in east London.
Abbey Road
Abbey Road is a DLR Zone 3 station on the Stratford High Street branch in Newham -not to be confused with the famous Abbey Road in St John's Wood associated with the Beatles.
Limehouse
Limehouse is a DLR and National Rail Zone 2 station in the historic docklands neighbourhood of Limehouse in Tower Hamlets.
Blackwall
Blackwall is a DLR Zone 2 station in Poplar, east London, opening onto the former Blackwall Basin -one of the original West India Docks.
Woolwich
Woolwich Elizabeth line station opened in May 2022 as part of the central section launch, giving south-east London its first direct rail link into the heart of the Elizabeth line network.
Abbey Wood
Abbey Wood is the south-eastern terminus of the Elizabeth line, opened in May 2022 as the anchor station for the Woolwich and Bexley end of the new line.
Hayes & Harlington
Hayes & Harlington is an Elizabeth line Zone 5 station in west London, rebuilt as part of the Crossrail project.
West Drayton
West Drayton is an Elizabeth line Zone 6 station in west London, serving the suburban town of West Drayton.
Forest Gate
Forest Gate is an Elizabeth line Zone 3 station in Newham, east London.
Maryland
Maryland is an Elizabeth line Zone 3 station in Newham, between Stratford and Forest Gate.
Manor Park
Manor Park is an Elizabeth line Zone 3 station in Newham, east London, between Forest Gate and Ilford.
Ilford
Ilford is a major Elizabeth line Zone 4 station in the London Borough of Redbridge, serving one of outer east London's busiest town centres.
Seven Kings
Seven Kings is an Elizabeth line Zone 4 station in Redbridge, between Ilford and Goodmayes.
Goodmayes
Goodmayes is an Elizabeth line Zone 4 station in Redbridge, serving the Goodmayes residential area between Seven Kings and Chadwell Heath.
Acton Main Line
Acton Main Line is an Elizabeth line Zone 3 station in west London, serving the Acton area.