Central line (London Underground) that the transport benefits of a Park Royal station on the Central line are not sufficiently high to justify the costs of construction. Central line (London Underground) The Central line is a London Underground line that runs through central London, from , Essex, in the north-east to and in the west. Coloured red on the Tube map, the line serves 49 stations over , which makes it the longest Tube line. It is also one of only two lines on the Underground network to cross the Greater London boundary, the other being the Metropolitan line. One of London's deep-level railways,
London Underground electric locomotives equipment was re-used in F-stock cars which were being converted to air-door operation. For moving rolling stock around the main workshops at Acton, four electric locomotives were created out of withdrawn passenger vehicles. City & South London Railway Central London Railway Metropolitan Railway District Railway Acton Works London Underground electric locomotives Electric locomotives were first used on the London Underground when the first deep-level tube line, the City and South London Railway (C&SLR), was opened in 1890. The first underground railways in London, the Metropolitan Railway (MR) and the District Railway (DR), used specially built steam locomotives to haul their