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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 official colour specifications can be found at the website of Transport for London: [1] we use Pantone's own RGB values, because they are more stable than TfL's RGB and CMYK values. Full colour specifications, along with a list of sources used for its development, can be found at Template:London transit icons on the Wikimedia Commons.
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 ...
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Transport for London (TfL) said it will update 6,000 station direction signs as well as maps, digital screens and online journey planners. London Overground lines to be given names and colours ...
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English: *Route map of London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway and Elizabeth line (), including most green-lighted proposals. Out of station interchanges (OSIs) refer to TfL official website and the independent website Oyster and National Rail.
The left side shows the 1933 Beck map and the right side the map in 2012. 1908 map of the Underground overlaid on a city map Early maps of the Metropolitan and District railways were city maps with the lines superimposed, [ 264 ] and the District published a pocket map in 1897. [ 265 ]