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British Museum was a station on the London Underground, located in Holborn, central London. ... British Museum station featured on an old version of the Tube map.
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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.
The tube map came second in a BBC and London Transport Museum poll asking for a favourite UK design icon of the 20th century [274] and the underground's 150th anniversary was celebrated by a Google Doodle on the search engine.
In March 2006 viewers of BBC2's The Culture Show and visitors to London's Design Museum voted Harry Beck's Tube map as their second-favourite British design of the 20th century in the Great British Design Quest. The winner was Concorde. GB Railfreight named locomotive 66721 after Beck in January 2007. [11]
Transport for London (TfL) has released a new Tube map with the Elizabeth line included for the first time. The new east-west railway has been added to the map ahead of its opening on May 24.
The new platforms came into use on 25 September 1933 replacing those of British Museum, which had closed the day before. As part of the modernisation the station was renamed Holborn (Kingsway) on 22 May 1933, but the suffix gradually dropped out of use and no longer appears on station signage or tube maps. It was displayed on the platform ...
Station names have been replaced by more than 270 notable black figures from pre-Tudor times to the present day.