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Geographic route map of the Central London Railway. The Central London Railway (CLR), also known as the Twopenny Tube, was a deep-level, underground "tube" railway [note 1] that opened in London in 1900. The CLR's tunnels and stations form the central section of what became London Underground's Central line.
The line was opened as the Central London Railway in 1900, crossing central London on an east–west axis along the central shopping street of Oxford Street to the financial centre of the City of London. It was later extended to the western suburb of Ealing. In the 1930s, plans were created to expand the route into the new suburbs, taking over ...
The Great Central Main Line (GCML), also known as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR), is a former railway line in the United Kingdom. The line was opened in 1899 and built by the Great Central Railway running from Sheffield in the North of England , southwards through Nottingham and Leicester to ...
This is a diagrammatic map of the Great Central Main Line, part of the former Great Central Railway network. The map shows the line as it currently is (please refer to legend), and includes all stations (open or closed). Some nearby lines and branch lines are also shown, though most stations are omitted on such lines if they are closed.
The London station group is a group of 18 railway stations served by the National Rail network in central London, England.The group contains all 14 terminal stations in central London, either serving major national services or local commuter routes, and 4 other through-stations that are considered terminals for ticketing purposes.
This is a route-map template for the Central London Railway, a London-area Underground railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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.
A Central London Railway route diagram appears on a 1904 postcard and 1905 poster, [266] similar maps appearing in District Railway cars in 1908. [267] In the same year, following a marketing agreement between the operators, a joint central area map that included all the lines was published. [ 268 ]