It may not be the simplest drawing, but it is actually pretty useful and worth saving on your phone. The map also covers the major roads around London, helping to see where in London you'll be when you get off the Tube. Each line roughly matches its exact geographical routes and locations and distances are more to-scale than the Tube map we know and love. Not just every Tube line, but the DLR, Overground, Tramlink, commuter rail and future Crossrail lines and their connections. Our journalists cover all the news you need - from City Hall to your local streets, so you'll never miss a moment.ĭon't skip a beat and sign up to The 12 newsletter here. The MyLondon team tells London stories for Londoners. You'll get 12 stories straight to your inbox at around 12pm. MyLondon's brilliant newsletter The 12 is absolutely jam packed with all the latest to keep you keep you entertained, informed and uplifted. READ MORE: All the stations 'outside fare zones' on the London Underground map and what that meansĭo you want to stay up to date with the latest news, views, features and opinion from across the city? Yes, the Thames is a bit crooked on the map and yes, Paddington is a bit of a mess, but the web of lines is so complex it needs some oversimplification. Yes, Zone 1 is way too big and the distances between stations in far-out zones are far too short. So good in fact that it has been copied in style around the world. Now having learned about Harry Beck and his iconic Tube map design, I can appreciate that he did a pretty good job.
Then there's the mess that is the two Edgware Road London Underground stations which share the same name but don't connect.
For example why was Elephant and Castle so close to Kennington station and yet seemed like miles from Borough? The directions of the lines also threw up issues, walking north from Temple to Blackfriars instead of straight at it eastwards.
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I had committed most of the central bit of the Tube map to memory and so would be boldly telling all the other freshers exactly where they were supposed to go and how to get there.īut quickly I started to realise I didn't have the full picture, or certainly the full map. When I came to London as a student I thought I was prepared.
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