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Metropolitan line

London Underground line
Place rapid_transit_line Q19891

Facts

22 properties

Identity

Instance of
rapid transit line, subsurface rail line[5]
Official website
tfl.gov.uk[15]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.514°, -0.076°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Hertfordshire[2]

Population and size

Length
+67[20]
More facts +16
Date of official opening
January 10, 1863[18]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Metropolitan line
Historic county
Middlesex[25]
KML file
Template:Attached KML/Metropolitan line[21]
Named after
Metropolitan Railway[7]
Operator
TfL[6]
Route diagram template
Template:Metropolitan line RDT[23]
Route number
Metropolitan[19]
SRGB color hex triplet
9B0058[8]
State of use
in use[24]
Terminus
Chesham tube station, Amersham station, Watford tube station, Uxbridge tube station, Aldgate tube station[9][10][11][12][13]
Track gauge
standard-gauge railway[17]
Train depot
Neasden Depot[14]
Transport network
London Underground[4]
Type of electrification
630 V DC railway electrification[16]
Vehicle normally used
London Underground S7 and S8 Stock, London Underground A60 and A62 Stock[22]
🏷️ Also known as
en Metropolitan line ar خط متروبوليتان en-gb Met line es Metropolitan fa خط متروپولیتن fr ligne métropolitaine fr ligne Metropolitan fr Metropolitan line he קו מטרופוליטן hi मेट्रोपॉलिटन लाइन id Jalur Metropolitan it linea Metropolitan it Metropolitan line ja メトロポリタン線 ko 메트로폴리탄선 ms Aliran Metropolitan ru линия Метрополитэн th สายเมโทรโพลิตัน tr Metropolitan Hattı uk Лінія Метрополітен
🔖 Identifiers · 12
VIAF cluster ID
169421839
Library of Congress authority ID
no2011044611
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Finchley Road tube station 2005-12-10.jpg ↗
Domain name
tfl.gov.uk
Freebase ID
/m/0l3v_
Onestop ID
r-gcpv-metropolitan
OpenStreetMap relation ID
102783
Structurae structure ID
10000473
Topic's main category
Category:Metropolitan Line
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
288682
Wellcome Collection concept ID
fvavg28x
X (Twitter) username
metline

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🔗 Connections
← Connecting line 37
King's Cross St Pancras tube station, Baker Street tube station, Euston Square tube station, Barbican tube station, Farringdon station, Great Portland Street, Moorgate tube station, Aldgate tube station +29 more
← Connecting service 32
King's Cross St Pancras tube station, Baker Street tube station, Euston Square tube station, Barbican tube station, Great Portland Street, Moorgate tube station, Aldgate tube station, Wembley Park tube station +24 more
Terminus 5
Aldgate tube station, Uxbridge tube station, Amersham station, Chesham tube station, Watford tube station
Vehicle normally used 2
London Underground S7 and S8 Stock, London Underground A60 and A62 Stock
Belongs to 1
London Underground
Continent 1
Europe
Country 1
United Kingdom
Historic county 1
Middlesex
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Hertfordshire
Named after 1
Metropolitan Railway
Operator 1
TfL
Route diagram template 1
Template:Metropolitan line RDT
Topic's main category 1
Category:Metropolitan Line
Track gauge 1
standard-gauge railway
Transport network 1
London Underground
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Metropolitan line stations
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Metropolitan Line
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Summary

Metropolitan line is a rapid transit line[1].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22w ago · AlphaBeta135 · 2026-06-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Geoshape → Data:Metropolitan line.map
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Geoshape: Data:Metropolitan line.map"
  2. 25w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Metropolitan Line
    KML file → Template:Attached KML/Metropolitan line
    Official website → https://tfl.gov.uk/tube/route/metropolitan
    Country → —
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31757|batch #31757]]: Remove redundant P30"
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