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The application can even tell passengers which side of the train they are best to stand on.

Users enter their start and end points and are shown where on the platform they should stand to avoid a long walk at their destination.

Tube Exits, which runs on Apple's iPhone and sells for £1.59, is the brainchild of Lance Stewart, 33, from Wimbledon. "I was on my way to a meeting and had to get off at Oxford Circus," he said.

"Unfortunately I was on the wrong end of the platform, and it was an absolute nightmare pushing through the crowd. It occurred to me that a guide to Tube platforms could be useful."

Mr Stewart quit his job at Virgin to work on the application, which cost him about £3,000 to develop. He said: "I'm not a programmer, but I was able to sketch out what I wanted and then get someone to make it."

However, to research the software, Mr Stewart spent eight days travelling to all 270 Tube stations on the 11 lines, noting the exit to each platform. "It wasn't a great deal of fun, but I had to swallow my pride and do it. A lot of stations I actually visited twice to make sure I hadn't made a mistake."

The application has already been downloaded from Apple's App Store several thousand times and Mr Stewart plans to expand the service to other cities that have an underground rail network.

"While it started out as a bit of a gimmick, people are now really finding applications like Tube exits are useful. We get most of our business from word of mouth, and I've been amazed at how well it has done," he said.