London Train System Name
A full list of train operating companies including network maps is available on the national rail website.
London train system name. The overground dlr tramlink and future service crossrail is shown as well as the london underground system to show how london rail s services integrate with each other. Local train operators in london. Cities including manchester birmingham bristol and cambridge. For trains to london from the airport see the london airports section.
Rapid transit in the united kingdom consists of five systems in four cities. A topological map of the london rail services showing all lines and stations. The london underground also known simply as the underground or by its nickname the tube is a public rapid transit system serving london region england and some parts of the adjacent counties of buckinghamshire essex and hertfordshire in the united kingdom. The london underground and docklands light railway tyne and wear metro the glasgow subway and merseyrail in the liverpool city region rapid transit has also been proposed in other u k.
These are slowly being integrated into a single coordinated london public transport system with common ticketing. London has a dense network of local suburban commuter trains separate from london s famous underground system. The stockholm subway system in sweden is called tunnelbana or t bana which means underground train or tunnel train. I suppose that is what the t stands for.
Other station lists for the area whose limits are a matter of debate see this article s talk are. The underground has its origins in the metropolitan railway the world s first underground passenger railway. This is a list of named passenger trains in the united kingdom these are specific regular journeys identified by a special name in the timetable not to be confused with the names of engines or individual physical train rakes.