Visitor information 1. Baker Street Platforms 5 and 6 date back 1 to 1863 and the earliest days of the London Underground. Transport Design Icons Designed by Sir John Fowler, this was one of the first stations to have Underground Discover some of London’s most platforms. The appearance BAKER STREET BAKER STREET BAKER STREET BAKER STREET popular transport design icons today reflects its original style and it is easy to imagine steam BAKER STREET BAKER STREET and the best times to visit the from the trains filling the air stations where you can find them. on these alcove lit platforms. BAKER STREET BAKER STREET BAKER STREET Underground station: For over 150 years, design on our transport Baker Street 10:00 - 15:00 network has shaped how London looks and how visitors experience the city. From the 2. Leslie Green tiles design of the iconic Tube map to London’s 2 famous red buses, transport design has made Glazed tiles have been a feature of London Underground station interiors since the 1860s. Regent’s Park station is London an easier, safer and more pleasurable a fine example of architect Leslie Green’s use of white place to explore. These designs can still be and bottle green tiles and mouldings in central London experienced as you travel across London and stations from the early 1900s. here we have shared a few of our favourites. 09:00 - 15:00 Underground station: Regent’s Park For more information, visit tfl.gov.uk/visitinglondon 3. Leslie Green stations Between 1906 and 1907 the architect Leslie Green 3 The busiest times to travel are 08:30 - provided London with some of its most iconic 09:00 and 17:30 - 18:30, Monday to Friday. Underground stations. These featured oxblood red To help you have a quicker and more terracotta exteriors, ceramic tiled ticket halls and comfortable journey, and experience platforms distinguished by colour patterns which are London’s transport design icons at their unique to each station. Russell Square station, close to the British Museum, is a fine example of Green’s best, we’ve provided information on the trademark style. best times to visit. Underground station: Russell Square RUSSELL SQUARE STATION = best time to visit Did you know: There are 1,500 on street maps and signs across the city that are Plan your journey and check live specially designed to help make London travel news at tfl.gov.uk easier to explore. 10:30 – 13:00 #LondonIsOpen 8. Tube map MORNINGTON CRESCENT 4 6 The London Underground 8 map is one of the most EUSTON famous maps in the world. KINGS CROSS It was created in 1931 PORTLAND EUSTON ST. PANCRAS ST. SQ. by Harry Beck, and WARREN ST. RUSSELL SQUARE was a change from the GOODGE CHANCERY previous maps as it was ST. LANE HOLBORN 10:00 - 15:00 10:00 - 15:00 simple yet practical. TOTTENHAM It is recognised as an COURT RD. ALDWYCH 4. Charles Holden stations 6. Westminster station important achievement COVENT GON in the history of design. LEICHESTER SQ. Architect Charles Holden was the genius behind Opened in 1999, the new Westminster station is a STRAND TEMPLE the Underground’s most innovative station designs. breath-taking space. The journey from the ticket Underground station: 10:00 - 15:30 He redesigned Piccadilly Circus station in 1928 to hall down several escalators to the Jubilee line gives Temple accommodate more customers at one of our busiest customers a chance to reflect on the sense of strength 9. Routemaster bus stations. Using marble cladding, bronze fittings and and power that the exposed concrete and steel creates. 9 The Routemaster bus is columns, its appearance is similar to the elegant shops Underground station: Westminster London’s iconic red bus. found along Regent Street. 15 15 Designed by Bill Durrant in Underground station: Piccadilly Circus Did you know: First used in 1908, the the 1950s they were used roundel is one of the most recognised in regular service until 5 elements of Transport for London’s identity. 2005. They are still used today on the 15H route 10:00 - 16:00 running between Tower 7 Hill and Trafalgar Square. Did you know: Our very own London Transport Museum in Covent Garden explores the story of London and its transport system over the past 200 10:00 - 15:00 years, with over 450,000 items on display. Find out more at www.ltmuseum.co.uk 7. Mind the gap This phrase is now synonymous with the Underground. 10. Taxi (Black Cab) 10 First used in 1969, the recording of the announcement London’s 22,000 black 10:00 - 15:00 by actor Oswald Laurence can still be heard at cabs are one of the city’s Embankment station. It was reintroduced there in most distinctive forms 2013 following a request from his widow. of transport. Each driver 5. 55 Broadway Underground station: Embankment must pass ‘The Knowledge’ In the late 1920s Charles Holden designed London before receiving their Underground’s new headquarters above St. James’s licence, which involves Did you know: To celebrate the Park station. Considered revolutionary at the time, learning 25,000 street Tube’s 150th anniversary, artist Mark it was also the tallest office building in London. names across the Capital! Wallinger created new artwork for The façade includes Modernist sculptures by Jacob You can hail one in the all 270 stations. Each artwork bears a Epstein and Henry Moore. street, at a taxi rank, or unique circular labyrinth. Underground station: St. James’s Park book by phone or app. HAM ALBANY STREET Eastman PS L K P Dental TEAD C CLERKENWELLCCLERLERERERKEKENENNWEWE L Euston T O T I S Hospital S AV T E ST Square P R . 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