UK train line with the most stations has 60 stops but takes just 74 minutes to complete

The District enactment serves 60 stations (Image: Getty)

The District enactment of the London Underground stops astatine 60 stations on its way - but lone takes 74 minutes from commencement to finish. 

The bid enactment stretches from Upminster successful the eastbound and Edgware Road successful the westbound to Earl’s Court successful westbound London. There, it splits into aggregate branches.

One subdivision extends to Wimbledon successful southwest London, but determination is besides a tiny subdivision connected this enactment offering constricted work to Kensington (Olympia).

The main way heads westbound from Earl’s Court to Turnham Green, wherever it divides again, starring to either Richmond oregon Ealing Broadway.

Represented successful greenish connected the Tube map, the District enactment serves 60 stations—more than immoderate different Underground line—over a span of 40 miles.

The District enactment is 40 miles agelong (Image: Getty)

It’s the lone enactment successful the web that crosses the River Thames connected a bridge, doing truthful connected some the Wimbledon and Richmond branches.

Portions of the enactment stock tracks with different services including the Hammersmith & City line, Circle line, and Piccadilly line. 

Unlike different lines astatine deeper levels, the District line’s tunnels prevarication conscionable beneath the surface, and its trains are akin successful size to British mainline trains.

The District enactment ranks arsenic the busiest of the sub-surface lines and the fifth-busiest connected the Underground overall, with implicit 250 cardinal rider journeys recorded successful 2019.

The District Line is greenish connected the conduit representation (Image: Getty)

The enactment was primitively called the Metropolitan District Railway. It opened successful December 1868 and spanned from South Kensington to Westminster arsenic portion of a planned underground “inner circle” connecting London’s mainline terminals.

Initially, services utilized woody carriages pulled by steam locomotives.

In 1905, electrification—financed by American Charles Yerkes—introduced electrical trains. 

The line’s signalling strategy has been undergoing upgrades since September 2019 arsenic portion of the Four Lines Modernisation project, and its older D Stock trains were afloat replaced by seven-car S Stock trains successful April 2017.