Central line
A Central line 1992 stock train leaving Theydon Bois
Overview
Stations	49
Colour on map	Red
Website	tfl.gov.uk
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	London Underground
Depot(s)	Ruislip Hainault White City[1]
Rolling stock	1992 Stock
Ridership	260.916 million (2011/12)[2] passenger journeys
History
Opened	30 June 1900
Technical
Line length	74 km (46 mi)
Character	Deep Tube
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
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The Central Line is a line of the London Underground. Its colour is red on the tube map. It runs east-west through London. The line was the longest line until the line between Epping and Ongar was closed. Outside the rush hours trains run every 3-4 minutes in Central London and every 6-7 minutes on the branches.

Map

Stations

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Legend
Ongar Blake Hall Ongar section closed 1994, now Epping Ongar Railway North Weald M11 motorway Coopersale rail access only Epping Forest rail access only Epping M25 motorway Theydon Bois Debden Loughton Buckhurst Hill M11 motorway Roding Valley Chigwell Grange Hill Woodford Hainault depot North Circular Road Hainault Fairlop South Woodford Barkingside Newbury Park Snaresbrook A12 road A12 road Gants Hill Fairlop Loop to Great Eastern Main Line Wanstead Redbridge Gospel Oak to Barking line Leytonstone Leytonstone High Road () Gospel Oak to Barking Line Leyton Great Eastern Main Line to Norwich Lea Valley lines Stratford Docklands Light Railway to Stratford International Docklands Light Railway to Beckton or Woolwich Arsenal North London line to Richmond Jubilee line to Stanmore Crossrail opens 2019 Great Eastern Main Line to Liverpool Street Docklands Light Railway to Lewisham H&C and District lines to Barking Mile End H&C and District lines via Whitechapel Bethnal Green Shoreditch High Street (proposed) Liverpool Street Bank St Paul's Chancery Lane Holborn British Museum Tottenham Court Road Oxford Circus Bond Street Marble Arch Crossrail opens 2019 Lancaster Gate Queensway Notting Hill Gate Holland Park Shepherd's Bush () West London Line Shepherd's Bush right-hand running starts White City depot (relocated underground 2007) Wood Lane (additional platforms)   Circle and H&C lines to Hammersmith Circle and H&C lines via Liverpool Street Wood Lane () Wood Lane ( ) White City GWR goods line to West London Line A40 road right-hand running ends to Paddington East Acton Great Western main line North London line North Acton Acton–Northolt line First Central (proposed) A40 road West Acton Piccadilly line Piccadilly and District lines via Earl's Court A406/A40 gyratory Hanger Lane Ealing Broadway Perivale Great Western main line to Reading Greenford branch line to GWML Greenford Chiltern Main Line to Marylebone Northolt South Ruislip Ruislip Gardens Ruislip depot Ruislip ( ) Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines to Uxbridge West Ruislip South Harefield Harefield Road Denham aborted Denham extension Chiltern Main Line to Birmingham|Snow Hill

In order from west to east. Station in italics are not in the on the Central line anymore

West Ruislip branch

• Terminus: West Ruislip, opened 21 November 1948
• Ruislip Gardens, opened 21 November 1948.
• South Ruislip, opened 21 November 1948.
• Northolt, opened 21 November 1948.
• Greenford, opened 30 June 1947.
• Perivale, opened 30 June 1947.
• Hanger Lane, opened 30 June 1947.

branch joins at North Acton:

Ealing Broadway branch

• Terminus: Ealing Broadway, opened 3 August 1920.
• West Acton, opened 5 November 1923.

branch joins at North Acton:

Main line

• North Acton, opened 5 November 1923
• East Acton, opened 3 August 1920.
• White City, opened 23 November 1947.
• Wood Lane, opened 14 May 1908; closed 22 November 1947.
• Shepherd's Bush, opened 30 July 1900.
• Holland Park, opened 30 July 1900.
• Notting Hill Gate, opened 30 July 1900.
• Queensway, opened 30 July 1900 (as Queens Road); renamed 1 September 1946.
• Lancaster Gate, opened 30 July 1900.
• Marble Arch, opened 30 July 1900.
• Bond Street, opened 24 September 1900.
• Oxford Circus, opened 30 July 1900.
• Tottenham Court Road, opened 22 June 1907 (as Oxford Street); renamed 9 March 1908.
• British Museum, opened 30 July 1900; closed 24 September 1933.
• Holborn, opened 25 September 1933
• Chancery Lane, opened 30 July 1900
• St. Paul's, opened 30 July 1900
• Bank, opened 30 July 1900.
• Liverpool Street, opened 28 July 1912.
• Bethnal Green, opened 4 December 1946.
• Mile End, opened 4 December 1946.
• Stratford, first served 4 December 1946.
• Leyton, first served 5 May 1947.
• Leytonstone, first served 5 May 1947.

Splits into two branches.

Woodford branch

• Wanstead, opened 14 December 1947.
• Redbridge, opened 14 December 1947.
• Gants Hill, opened 14 December 1947.
• Newbury Park, first served 14 December 1947.
• Barkingside, first served 31 May 1948.
• Fairlop, first served 31 May 1948.
• Hainault, first served 31 May 1948.

The Greater London boundary with Essex is at Grange Hill

• Grange Hill, first served 21 November 1948.
• Chigwell, first served 21 November 1948.
• Roding Valley, first served 21 November 1948.

Terminates at Woodford [see Ongar Branch] (except for rush hours)

Ongar branch (now Epping Branch)

• Snaresbrook, first served 14 December 1947.
• South Woodford, first served 14 December 1947 (as South Woodford (George Lane)); renamed 1950.
• Terminus for Woodford branch: Woodford, first served 14 December 1947.

The Greater London boundary with Essex is between Woodford and Buckhurst Hill

• Buckhurst Hill, first served 21 November 1948.
• Loughton, first served 21 November 1948.
• Debden, first served 25 September 1949.
• Theydon Bois, first served 25 September 1949.
• Terminus: Epping, first served 25 September 1949.

Note: the remaining stations to Ongar were served by a shuttle service from Epping.

• North Weald, first served 25 September 1949; closed 30 September 1994.
• Blake Hall, first served 25 September 1949; closed: 31 October 1981.
• Ongar, first served 25 September 1949; closed 30 September 1994.