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Tube Relief
Caught short on the tube? TfL publishes all sorts of maps of the London Underground network, including this map of toilet facilities at stations. This is particularly useful as no TfL train, of any...
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Travelzoo’s Summer Map of Free Things
We do like arty tube maps here at Mapping London and Travelzoo have obliged with this rather pretty map of 50 free things to do in this summer in London, attaching the attractions to tube stations,...
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TfL’s Corporate Archives
The Corporate Archives division of Transport for London recently held a short internal exhibition at their headquarters at Palestra, called “Mapping London” and showcasing new and old maps of London’s...
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London Underground Architecture & Design Map
I have to confess, there was a sharp intake of breathe when this map was unwrapped here at Mapping London towers. We are a big fan of tube maps (we even have a special page just for them) and we know...
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Underground Railways of London, 1928
The Tube Map is a design classic – the straight lines, even spacing and lack of unnecessary above-ground detail has become a hall-mark of metro maps across the world, since it was first drawn by H.C....
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Moscow Metro Architecture & Design Map
A lot of Londoners are currently focused on the World Cup in Russia at the moment, so Mapping London is taking a look eastwards, thanks to the latest boutique map created by productive cartographers...
View ArticleThe Wonderful World of Off-Peak
TfL is keen to get people travelling on the tube when it’s not so busy, and also beyond Zone 1. With this in mind, they’ve commissioned these line maps, in conjunction with Time Out magazine. Each line...
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Circle Line Food Crawl!
You’ve done the Circle Line Pub Crawl. Now try the Circle Line Food Crawl. Or use this special “Food Tube Map”, produced by Wren Kitchens (they write about it here), to visit unusual gastronomic...
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London Suburban Lines 1939 (Modern Reproduction)
This lovely schematic diagram was first created in 1939 by George Dow. It shows the three LNER (London and North Eastern Railway) north London networks – radiating out from the Marylebone, King’s...
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Tube Station Stress!
From conference facility organisers PowWowNow comes this map/infographic showing the worst tube stations in central London for stress. They’ve produced a simple index of tube station stress by...
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Walking Tube Map – Extended
The weather’s lovely at the moment – the last thing you want to do is spend that time deep down in the bowels on London, on the deep tube network, surely? Or maybe at least, how about alighting one...
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TCR Crossrail Station Wall
The public may not be able to visit Tottenham Court Road station’s Crossrail concourse or platforms yet, thanks to the well-publicised delay across the wider project, but the station was one of the...
View ArticleAir Pollution on the Tube
An eye-opening version the Tube Map for central London was published by the FT today (& on Twitter). The graphic, created by Steven Bernard of the FT Data team, is based on “PM 2.5” air pollution...
View ArticleThe Original Beck Map with the Modern Network
This creation by Arturs D, a volunteer at the London Transport Museum, is a faithful transplantion of the original c.1933 H.C. “Harry” Beck London tube map, the first to show the network as a diagram...
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Circle Line Pub Crawl
One of London’s hardest challenge, the Circle Line Pub Crawl, got even harder a few years ago when Transport for London reconfigured the line to have a “tail” extending down to Hammersmith. Now, there...
View ArticleCycling and Small Business Guide
Route Plan Roll is the creation of Dermot Hanney – his concept is to marry a map of safe London road cycle routes, with proper infrastructure, with the “tube map” which famously simplifies the London...
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Tube Zones
People in London generally know what tube zone they live “in”. There are no defined zones as such, zones are simply classifications assigned to each tube and railway station in, so it is likely people...
View ArticleLet’s Do London
After nearly a year and a half when much of London has been staying away from its central business district, there’s a big push to get people back into the middle of town. The Mayor of London and Visit...
View ArticleGreenground Map
The London Greenground Map, by designer Helen Ilus (Hi Design), takes its inspiration from the famous tube map to create a network of walking routes, with parks as “stations” in and around the capital....
View ArticleLondon All-on-One Quickmap
Central London has long been a spatial challenge for tourists and others unfamiliar with it. It’s very big, and most of it isn’t built on an easily understandable grid pattern. Quirks and kinks in...
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