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.
An alternative TfL Tube map: Designer creates ‘grid-like’ London Underground plan using Beijing Subway as guide. A London Underground enthusiast has combined the Tube map with a plan of the Beijing Subway to create a new ‘grid-like’ city plan. Alastair Carr created the quirky design by taking both maps, aligning Tiananmen Square in the Chinese capital
A Tube Map Of Every Waitrose And Lidl In London. Just when you thought you’d seen every conceivable variation on the tube map, somebody comes up with yet another novel idea. Today, it’s this rather marvellous chart by Alastair Carr showing every Waitrose and every Lidl in London. The two supermarket chains are connected up
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TfL Tube maps from the last two decades show how the London Underground lines have evolved. Fascinating maps from the Transport for London archives show how the capital’s Tube lines have evolved over the last two decades. The collection of diagrams, which were used inside the train carriages, reveal changes to the network dating back
Londoner creates ‘fascinating’ – but ultimately completely ‘pointless’ – inside out Tube map. There’s nothing pointless about creating anything. There’s everything pointless about destroying something. A Londoner has created an inside-out Tube map which has been described as both “fascinating and pointless”. The reverse map depicts a world in which Edgware is the epicentre of the capital
London Underground map that shows every abandoned ‘GHOST STATION’. Tunnel into the past! From ‘British Museum’ to ‘Down Street’, the fascinating London Underground map that shows every single abandoned ‘GHOST STATION’ It has been created by Franklin Jarrier, who names the ‘ghost stations’ and indicates the date they closed. His map shows the actual layout
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The Secret Tube Map That’s Only Meant For TfL Employees. Take a look at the tube map above. A wash of bold background colours, squiggly lines and matching tube lines, it’s all a bit of a mess. Where do we even begin with this one? This is called a PAYG Map (Pay As You Go
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The Tube map that shows exactly where all trains are at any time on the London Underground. A web developer has created a fascinating map that details exactly where every Tube train is on the London underground network at any given time. Matthew Somerville, 37, spent hours working on the interactive tool which overlays the
How Frequently Will Crossrail Trains Run? With Crossrail’s launch fast approaching, we’ve been thinking about the practicalities of the service. How often will the trains run at each station, and when? What’s the difference between the peak and off-peak service? Pieced together from the information released so far. Source: How Frequently Will Crossrail Trains Run?
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This Tube Map Shows Which Lines Are Air-Conditioned. You are SO going to need this today, yesterday, tomorrow, etc.. Source: This Tube Map Shows Which Lines Are Air-Conditioned | Londonist
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A Map Of Unbuilt London. Imagine if the Thames flowed to docks in Peckham, while its ancient course was reclaimed for cars. Picture London with a mile-high skyscraper, or a pyramid full of corpses on Primrose Hill. Would you have liked to see an airport at King’s Cross, or Charing Cross, or Peckham (again)? The
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