When did the London Underground last gain a line?
When did the London Underground last gain a line?
24 May 2022
The Elizabeth line opened
It was four years late and several billion over budget, and is not strictly part of the Underground — it is a separate railway on the same map and the same ticketing. Before it, the last genuinely new line was the Jubilee in 1979. Within a year of opening the Elizabeth line was carrying more passengers than the entire national rail network of several European countries.
- What
- The Elizabeth line opened
- When
- 24 May 2022
- Category
- Everyday things
- Could this change?
- Not in any foreseeable way. The event is closed.
Everyday things
| Question | When |
|---|---|
| When did the tallest building in the world last change? | 2010 |
| When did the prime meridian last move? | 1984 |
| When did the Olympics last award medals for art? | 1948 |
| When were the Olympic Games last cancelled? | 1944 |
| When was a leap year last skipped? | 1900 |
| When was a letter last added to the English alphabet? | The 1500s and 1600s |
This page gives a date and never a "years ago". These pages are built as static files, so a computed interval would freeze at build time and quietly become wrong — which on a reference site is worse than making the reader do the subtraction.
Common questions
- When did the London Underground last gain a line?
- 24 May 2022 — The Elizabeth line opened.
- What happened?
- It was four years late and several billion over budget, and is not strictly part of the Underground — it is a separate railway on the same map and the same ticketing. Before it, the last genuinely new line was the Jubilee in 1979. Within a year of opening the Elizabeth line was carrying more passengers than the entire national rail network of several European countries.
Related pages
- When did the tallest building in the world last change? 2010
- When did the prime meridian last move? 1984
- When did the Olympics last award medals for art? 1948
- When were the Olympic Games last cancelled? 1944
- When was a leap year last skipped? 1900
- When was a letter last added to the English alphabet? The 1500s and 1600s
- When was the last Boeing 747 delivered? Also 31 January 2023
- When did Microsoft Office last change its default font? Also 2023
- When were the SI base units last redefined? Also 20 May 2019
- When was the last leap second added? Also 31 December 2016
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)