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=== Railway line ===
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The Central line is {{convert|46|mi|order=flip}} long and serves 49 stations.<ref name="Line Facts">{{cite web |url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/londonunderground/keyfacts/13164.aspx |title=Central line facts |publisher=Transport for London |access-date=1 December 2012 |archive-date=26 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926042128/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/londonunderground/keyfacts/13164.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Key Facts">{{cite web |title= Key facts |publisher= Transport for London |url= http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/londonunderground/1608.aspx |access-date=1 December 2012 |archive-date=15 December 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111215025236/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/londonunderground/1608.aspx |url-status= dead }}</ref> The line is predominantly double-track, widened to three tracks for short sections south of Leytonstone and west of White City; no track is shared with any other line, though some sections do run parallel to other routes. Total track length is {{convert|147.1|km|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|52.8|km|order=flip}} is in tunnel;<ref name="Line Facts" /><ref name="map">{{cite web |url= http://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-london/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200728161716/http://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-london/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= 28 July 2020 |title=Detailed London Transport Map |access-date=1 December 2012 |work=cartometro.com }}</ref> this track is electrified with a four-rail DC system: a central conductor rail is energised at&nbsp;−210&nbsp;V and a rail outside the running rail at +420&nbsp;V, giving a potential difference of 630&nbsp;V.<ref name="Martin2012">{{cite book |last= Martin |first=Andrew |title= Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vh3n5WD_YqsC&pg=PT137 |access-date=7 December 2012 |date=26 April 2012 |publisher=Profile Books |location =London |isbn=978-1-84765-807-4 |pages=137–138}}</ref>
 
The single-track line north of Epping, which closed in 1994, is now the [[Epping Ongar Railway|Epping Ongar]] [[heritage railway]]. {{As of|2013|5}} shuttle services operate at weekends between North Weald and Ongar and North Weald and [[Coopersale]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://eorailway.co.uk/your-visit/timetables-and-fares/ |title=Timetable |publisher= Epping Ongar Railway |date=29 May 2013 |access-date=29 May 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171022040053/http://eorailway.co.uk/your-visit/timetables-and-fares/ |archive-date=22 October 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> These do not call at [[Blake Hall tube station|Blake Hall]], as the station platform was removed by London Transport after the station closed, and the remaining building is now a private residence.