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The following stations were once planned by the London Underground or one of the early independent underground railway companies and were granted parliamentary approval. Subsequent changes of plans or shortages of funds led to these stations being cancelled before they opened, and, in most cases, before any construction work was carried out. [b]
An unofficial topological tube map of the London Underground system. Also included are the London Overground, Docklands Light Railway, the Tramlink and Elizabeth line systems for integration purposes. The London Underground is a metro system in the United Kingdom that serves Greater London and the home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and ...
The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.
Former single platform tube stations (6 P) Pages in category "Disused London Underground stations" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
For anyone with even a passing acquaintance with London, the city's Tube map is as iconic as the red buses or the black cabs. Now, London Mayor Sadiq Khan hopes to bring some clarity to the ...
The game also features the multiplayer map "Underground", in which players are combating in a fictitious Underground station. The London Underground map serves as a playing field for the conceptual game of Mornington Crescent [343] (which is named after a station on the Northern line) and the board game The London Game.
The Wonderground Map was a 1914 London Underground map designed by MacDonald Gill and commissioned for the underground by Frank Pick, Commercial Manager of the then-Underground Electric Railways Company of London. It is known today as the map which "saved" the network (described in 2016 as at that time being a "service on its knees"), [1] by ...
Connor, J.E. (2005) London's Disused Stations, Volume Five, The London & South Western Railway, including the Tooting Merton & Wimbledon Railway and West London Extension Railways. Connor & Butler, Colchester, ISBN 978-0-947699-38-3; Connor, J.E. (2006) London's Disused Stations, Volume Six, The London Brighton & South Coast Railway.