Circle line (London Underground) and the C Stock trains have recently been replaced by new seven-car S Stock trains, in a programme completed in 2015. In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opened in London between Paddington and Farringdon, connecting the Great Western Railway's relatively remote terminus at Paddington with Euston and King's Cross stations and the City, London's financial heart. In the same year a select committee report recommended an 'inner circle' of railway lines connecting the London termini that had been built or under construction. In the next year the Metropolitan District Railway (commonly known as the District Railway)
London Bridge station service in trains per hour (tph) is: The typical weekday off-peak services in trains per hour (tph) is: The Thameslink timetable through London Bridge was introduced in May 2018. The typical weekday off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is: The Underground station is served by the Jubilee line and the Bank branch of the Northern line. In , it was the station on the network with million users. It is the only station on the London Underground network with "London" in its name (while the NR termini are named, for instance, "London Waterloo" the Underground station is simply named