From official transit designs to creative reimagining’s by passionate enthusiasts, our MAPS category brings together underground railway maps from cities worldwide. Whether it’s a classic London Tube diagram, a quirky fan-made design, or a historic layout, each post reveals something unique about how we navigate urban spaces.
Redesigned Tube map shows the cheapest pints of beer close to London stations. Find yours! The tube is the best way to get home after visiting the pub. It’s warm, cheaper than an Uber, and you can’t kill anyone unless you really intend to. We were curious about the cheapest pub on the line, so
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Macclesfield’s pubs immortalised on London Underground-style map. These are a few of my favourite things, pubs and maps! Artist Steve Lovell’s creation has 60 drinking spots and was inspired by the Macc Lads Source: Macclesfield’s pubs immortalised on London Underground-style map – Cheshire Live
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The ‘tube map for Greater Manchester’ that reveals the future of our transport network. Announcing plans to move forward with bus regulation, the mayor of Manchester reiterated his ambition for a ‘London-style’ system. Andy Burnham has unveiled a map showing how he wants the conurbation’s transport network to look by 2029. In a speech that
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‘Literature’ Tube map replaces stations with titles of books set in the area. Book enthusiasts have designed an alternative Tube map, replacing station names with the titles of novels set in the area. The London Underground map features book titles from authors including Charles Dickens, Martin Amis and Zadie Smith. The map, which covers most
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A graphic designer has spent hundreds of hours ‘decluttering’ the Tube map. A graphic designer has undertaken a radical redesign of the London Underground map – spending three years redrawing the lines and shaking up its colour scheme. Luke Carvill spent hundreds of hours on Source: Graphic designer spends hundreds of hours ‘decluttering’ Tube map
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Introducing Tube Map Crossover #1,304… Tube Wallpaper. Featuring premature Crossrail. Source: Introducing Tube Map Crossover #1,304… Tube Wallpaper | Londonist
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This Valentine’s Themed Tube Map Is Enough To Break A Pun Artist’s Heart. An alternative tube map with a Valentine’s theme has been released, and it’s full of puns that are so bad they’re actually… just really, really bad. Alright, some of them are a bit clever. We wouldn’t have come up with Prenup-ton Park,
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A surgeon uses London Tube to inspire life-size human body map. The design is not for medical reference FYI A surgeon has created a life-sized diagram of the human body based on London’s Tube network. Jonathan Simmonds, a head and neck expert, mapped hundreds of connections and junctions between nerve endings and arteries. He named
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London Underground releases a new tube map. A new tube map has started appearing in London Underground stations, and there’s a lot of changes to this edition. Most notable is what’s not on the map — a long purple line that should have marked the launch of the Elizabeth line. But what’s been added is
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Alternative Tube Map: Quirky Christmas Food. Take the Central line via Christmas Pudding. Source: Alternative Tube Map: Quirky Christmas Food | Londonist
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