10 incredible facts you might not know about the Jubilee Line

Did you know that it was originally going to be called the River line?

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Liz Connor31 May 2016

Coloured grey on the map and running from Stanmore to Stratford, the Jubilee line is the newest route on the London Underground network - and one of the most used by commuters and tourists alike.

In fact is has London’s busiest tube station on its route; Waterloo receives 82 million visitors a year and it also sees 57,000 people enter just during the three-hour-long morning rush hour.

Opened in 1979, this important transport link took over what was previously the Stanmore branch of the Bakerloo line, while the newer stops on the line were completed in two major sections: initially in 1979 to Charing Cross tube station in central London; then extended in 1999 with the Jubilee Line Extension to Stratford station in east London.

Following the extension into East London, serving areas once poorly connected to the Underground, the line has seen a huge growth in passenger numbers in the capital and is currently the third busiest on the network, with over 213 million passengers per year.

If you live in London, you probably use this line to get to gigs at the O2, to catch trains from Waterloo and to go shopping on Bond Street. But how much do you really know the network that ferries millions of people around the capital?

Click through our gallery above to discover ten interesting facts about the Jubilee line.