Victoria Line

  • Completed on 17th May 2017
  • 16 Stations over 14.5 miles
  • 1 Day Effort
  • London Boroughs: Lambeth, Westminster, Camden, Harringay & Waltham Forest

The Victoria Line runs between Brixton in south London and Walthamstow Central in the north-east, via the West End. It is one of the only two lines on the network to run completely underground, the other being the Waterloo & City line.

The line was constructed in the 1960s and was the first entirely new Underground line in London for 50 years. It was designed to reduce congestion on other lines, particularly the Piccadilly line and the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line. The first section, from Walthamstow Central to Highbury & Islington, opened in September 1968 and an extension to Warren Street followed in December. The line was completed to Victoria station in March 1969 and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II who rode a train from Green Park to Victoria. The southern extension to Brixton opened in 1971, and Pimlico station was added in 1972.

The Victoria line is operated using automatic train operation, but all trains have drivers. The line, the most intensively used on the Underground, is used by over 200 million passengers each year, making it the sixth-busiest tube line.

  • Brixton Station
  • Brixton High Street
  • Banksy Art in Brixton
  • Car on Stockwell Road
  • Stockwell Station
  • Memorial for Jean Charles de Menezes; killed by Metropolitan Police Officers at Stockwell Station on 22nd July 2005
  • Vauxhall Station
  • River Thames & Battersea Power Station from Vauxhall Bridge
  • Pimlico Station
  • Little Ben in Victoria Street
  • Victoria Station
  • Green Park Station
  • Saville Row
  • Hamley’s on Regent Street
  • Carnaby Street
  • West End
  • Oxford Circus Station
  • BT Tower
  • Warren Street Station
  • Euston Station
  • British Library
  • Kings Cross St Pancras Station
  • Regent’s Canal at Kings Cross
  • Highbury & Islington Station
  • Highbury Fields
  • Christ Church Highbury
  • Finsbury Park
  • Finsbury Park Station
  • New River Path
  • Seven Sisters Station
  • Tottenham Hale Station
  • Blackhorse Road Station
  • Walthamstow High Street
  • Walthamstow Central Station