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 commuter belt East and South East regions. Most districts are entirely, or have sections, within the M25 motorway or are within of Charing Cross. Adjacent districts often share characteristics of Outer London, such as forming part of the continuous urban sprawl, being served by the London Underground, being covered by the London telephone area code, (until 2000) forming part of the Metropolitan Police District and having a relatively high employed population working in London. Larger Urban Zone is a definition created by Eurostat that measures the population and expanse of metropolitan areas across European countries. The population of London's Larger Urban Zone