District line facts for kids

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District
District line flag box.png
Colour on map Green
Year opened 1868
Line type Sub-Surface
Rolling stock D78 stock
S7 stock
Stations served 60
Length 64 km (40 mi)
Depots Upminster, Ealing Common (D Stock)
Hammersmith (C Stock)
Journeys made 208 million (2011/12) passenger journeys

The District line is a railway line in the London Underground. It stretches from the London Borough of Havering in East London to Ealing and Richmond in West London.

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Images for kids

  • A three-quarter black-and-white photograph of a train standing at a station, showing the end carriage with windows at the end.

    The jointly owned experimental passenger train that ran for six months in 1900

  • Earl's Court District Line platforms

    Overhead view of the District line platforms at Earl's Court

  • D78 Stock at Upton Park 2

    Refurbished D78 Stock

  • LondonUnderground-S7-DistrictLine-Olympia

    District line S7 S Stock train at Kensington (Olympia) station.

  • R Stock painted and unpainted at South Kensington

    An R Stock train composed of a mixture of unpainted aluminium and (white) painted steel cars


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