Metropolitan line: all 23 stations from Aldgate to Amersham

The Metropolitan line comes from the Metropolitan Railway, which opened in January 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon as the world's first underground railway. Its extensions into Buckinghamshire in the early twentieth century brought so much new housing along the route that the area became known as Metro-land. Electrification in 1961 cut the western end back to Amersham.

In the game you type the route from Aldgate to Amersham.

The route

Leaving Aldgate, the Metropolitan line stops at Liverpool Street, Moorgate, Barbican, Farringdon, King's Cross St Pancras, Euston Square, Great Portland Street, Baker Street, Finchley Road, Wembley Park, Preston Road, Northwick Park, Harrow-on-the-Hill, North Harrow, Pinner, Northwood Hills, Northwood, Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Chorleywood, Chalfont & Latimer and Amersham.

Branches you don't type

Our map also draws these branches as dotted lines: Harrow-on-the-Hill to Uxbridge, Moor Park to Watford and Chalfont & Latimer to Chesham. The game types the main route from Aldgate to Amersham.

Connections and typing

Of the 23 stations, 11 are shared with other lines in the game. The biggest are King's Cross St Pancras (Victoria, Circle, Northern, Piccadilly, Hammersmith & City), Baker Street (Bakerloo, Circle, Jubilee, Hammersmith & City), Liverpool Street (Central, Circle, Hammersmith & City), Moorgate (Circle, Northern, Hammersmith & City), Barbican (Circle, Hammersmith & City) and Farringdon (Circle, Hammersmith & City). One full ride takes 288 keystrokes, about 12.5 per station. King's Cross St Pancras is the longest at 23, then Great Portland Street at 21, and Pinner is the shortest at 6. The first lines of six cities are compared in six first subways. Play the Metropolitan line.