TfL's published window is December 2026 to June 2027, after two slips from the original 2024 target. What is left to test before the first passengers.
London Underground stations ranked by the lowest mean annual household income of the MSOA they sit in.
Daily guessers, memory tests, route puzzles, map crops and board games: every kind of metro game, what it tests, and which city it covers.
Metro Memory, Metrodle, Roundle, Tuble and DailyMetro: five ways to be humbled by the Tube map, ranked by what they test.
One mystery London Underground station a day, 273 to know. Guess from the lines, the direction and the neighbourhood, or from a photo of the real entrance.
The oldest underground railway in the world, and the odd records it has picked up since 1863.
A UFO-shaped ticket hall, a station built inside a church crypt, and the game with no rules.
Aldwych, Down Street and six more closed, unfinished or hidden stops beneath London.
There is no Inspector Sands. The name is a coded staff alert, and knowing what it signals makes the announcement far less sinister than it sounds.
Forty metres under High Holborn sit 8,000 m² of wartime tunnels that spent three decades as a telephone exchange nobody was meant to know about.
The Bakerloo kink, the Piccadilly curve: the same plague-pit story is told about every bend. The documented reason is about land ownership, not graves.
A 1924 birth at Elephant & Castle started the story that Tube babies ride free for life. Here is what actually happened, and what never did.
A screaming Egyptian priestess said to haunt the sealed tunnels of a station closed in 1933. Where the story came from, and what it keeps confusing.
Harry Beck's 1933 design is a schematic, not a map. Here are the distortions big enough to change how you should actually travel across London.
A game made for one friend, a viral tweet and a month of rollercoaster: the story behind DailyMetro.
London Underground stations ranked by the mean annual household income of the MSOA they sit in.