Circle line (London Underground) the stations are shared with one or more of the three other sub-surface lines, namely the District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines. On the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines combined, over 114 million passenger journeys were recorded in 2011/12. The first section became operational in 1863 when the Metropolitan Railway opened the world's first underground line between Paddington and with wooden carriages and steam locomotives. The same year a select committee report recommended an "inner circle" of lines connecting the London railway termini, and the Metropolitan District Railway (commonly known as the District Railway) was formed to build
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