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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.
Henry Charles Beck (4 June 1902 – 18 September 1974) was an English technical draughtsman who created the first diagrammatic London Underground Tube map in 1931. [1] Beck drew the diagram after being laid off by the Signalling Department of Underground Electric Railways of London.
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. [275] [276]
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 overhaul involves one of the biggest changes in the history of the capital’s Tube map. London Overground lines have all been coloured orange on TfL maps since the network was created in 2007 ...
The London Underground is a metro system in the United Kingdom that serves Greater London and the home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire. Its first section opened in 1863, [ 1 ] making it the oldest underground metro system in the world – although approximately 55% of the current network is above ground, [ 2 ] as it ...
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 Wonderground Map was a 1914 London Underground map designed by ... a map which gave the company, as the BBC ... and various spin-off tube maps. [2 ...