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The 1933 London Underground Beck map shows a Metropolitan line north of High Street Kensington and Mark Lane stations and a District line south of these points. [21] On the 1947 map, the Metropolitan and District lines were shown together in the same colour [22] and two years later in 1949 the Circle line was shown separately on the map. [23]
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.
There are nine zones with zone 1 being the central zone, which includes the loop of the Circle line with a few stations to the south of River Thames. The only London Underground stations in Zones 7 to 9 are on the Metropolitan line beyond Moor Park, outside London region. Some stations are in two zones, and the cheapest fare applies. [203]
On 30 June 1900, the Middle Circle service was shortened to terminate at Earl's Court, [10] and, on 31 December 1908, the Outer Circle service was withdrawn from the DR tracks. [11] In 1949, the Metropolitan line-operated Inner Circle route was given its own identity on the tube map as the Circle line. [7]
The railway infrastructure of the London Underground includes 11 lines, with 272 stations.There are two types of line on the London Underground: services that run on the sub-surface network just below the surface using larger trains, and the deep-level tube lines, that are mostly self-contained and use smaller trains.
It is the only Underground line to use a bridge to traverse the River Thames, crossing on both the Wimbledon and Richmond branches. [4] The track and stations between Barking and Aldgate East are shared with the Hammersmith & City line, and between Tower Hill and Gloucester Road and on the Edgware Road branch they are shared with the Circle line.
Circle line (London Underground), in London; Cathcart Circle Lines, in Glasgow; Fife Circle Line, in Edinburgh and Fife; Glasgow Subway, in Glasgow; North America.
With the building of the Elizabeth line Paddington gained two more low level platforms numbered A and B. These are located underground in the Elizabeth line section of the station directly to the south west of the main concourse. The concourse stretches across the heads of platforms 1 to 12, underneath the London end of the four train sheds.