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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.
Since 2004, Art on the Underground has commissioned artists to create covers for London Underground's pocket Tube map. [1] These free maps are one of the largest public art commissions in the UK. [2] Over 35 different designs have been produced, with designs from a wide variety of British and international artists. [3]
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]
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 ...
A map of Art on the Underground artwork locations was published in 2016 as the Art Map. [52] The project has also generated maps within local communities such as a Brixton Mural Map in 2018 [53] [21] and the Brixton Botanical Map in 2022. [54] [55] These were available for free at tube stations as well as being published as PDFs for download ...
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.
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 ...
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.