London Underground infrastructure Tube Programme, investigating replacing the trains for the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines, is looking for trains with better energy conservation and regenerative braking. The Underground serves 270 stations. Fourteen Underground stations are outside Greater London, of which five (Amersham, Chalfont & Latimer, Chesham, and Chorleywood on the Metropolitan line and Epping on the Central line) are beyond the M25 London orbital motorway. The longest distance between two stations is between Chalfont & Latimer and Chesham on the Metropolitan line. The shortest distance between adjacent stations is the between Leicester Square and Covent Garden on the Piccadilly line. The station furthest
London Underground infrastructure London Overground – at New Cross and New Cross Gate. Of the boroughs that the Underground passes through, Hackney is served solely by Manor House station on the Piccadilly line in the very north-western edge of the borough. For the most part however some of the tube lines like the Central line skirt around the edge of the Hackney rather than going through it. Greenwich borough was unserved until North Greenwich station opened on the Jubilee line extension in 1999. The lines are electrified with a four-rail DC system: a conductor rail between the rails is energised at −210 V