London map pdf tfl Continue TfL Rail Reading service shown open - Chiltern paddington service has been changed to West Ealing's New Blackfriars layout' zone 8, added to Swanley and Goblin, shown open - now with a weekend service on Liverpool Street via Stratford. - London's Midland Bushy stop added and alignment changes to the Greenford branch stops at West Ealing South East Cannon Street service diverging short of London Bridge TfL rail closures as Goblin showed the closed Crossrail renamed Elizabeth Line and the Northern Line Battersea extension added. GWR added from the Reigate Gatwick Express has changed from brown to black exchange cones removed from emirates Air Line Goblin changed to a hatched London Bridge line layout changed the new zone 23'added. FGW becomes GWR. Well done pitcher, beautifully done. TfLs wish a list of routes it would add to london Overground. Not schematic, but this geographically accurate map was widely regarded as a new breakthrough, so it's worth it as well. Not so accurately, though. It seems to remember that this was around a long time ago... The only difference seems to be the different presentations of Highbury - Dalston. Shows London overground Surrey berths - Clapham Junction open. Shows DLR Stratford International expansion open. The Metro map from March 2019 Part of the series on TheLondon Underground Overview History Infrastructure Stations Popular Culture Map London transport portalvte The Tube Map (sometimes called The London Underground Map or TfL Services Map) is a schematic transport map of the lines, stations and services of the London Underground, known as the Tube, hence the name of the map. The first schematic map of the metro was developed by Harry Beck in 1931. It has since been expanded to include more London public transport systems including docklands Light Railway, London Overground, TfL Rail, Tramlink and the Emirates Air Line cable car. As a schematic diagram, not geographical locations are shown, but relative positions of stations, lines, connecting stations and tariff zones. Basic design concepts have been widely adopted for other similar maps around the world, as well as for maps of other types of transport networks and even conceptual schemes. A regularly updated version of the map is available on the official Transport for London website. In 2006, the metro map was recognized as one of the top 10 British design icons, which included Concorde, Mini, Supermarine Spitfire, K2 phone booth, World Wide Web and AEC Routemaster bus. The maps were generally not schematic and were simply a line superimposed on a normal map of the city. There was no services of companies or any cooperation in advertising. In 1907, the Evening News newspaper ordered a pocket card London Evening News Tube Map. It was the first map showing all the equal-weight lines given to each line, and it was the first map that used a different color for each line. Another early combined map was published in 1908 by the London Underground Electric Railways Company (UERL) in conjunction with four other underground railway companies that used the Underground brand as part of a common advertising factor. Map of Underground Lines, 1908 Map showed eight routes - four operated by UERL and one of each of the four other companies: UERL Lines: Bakerloo Railway - Brown Hampstead Railway - Indigo Piccadilly Railway - Yellow District Railway - Green Other Lines: Central London Railway - Blue City and South London Railway - Black Great North and City Railway - Black Great Northern and City Railways - Orange Metropolitan Railway - Red because for sufficient clarity the limbs of the county and metropolitan lines that must be omitted, and therefore the complete circuit network was not provided. The problem of rooting has remained for almost half a century. Although all the western branches of the District and Piccadilly Lines were incorporated for the first time in 1933 with the first proper Harry Beck Metro map, part of the Metropolitan line for Rickmansworth did not appear until 1938, and the eastern end of the district line did not appear until the mid-1950s. The route map continued to evolve and was produced in various formats and artistic styles until 1920, when the first geographical backstory was omitted on a map developed by Macdonald Gill. This freed the design to provide greater flexibility in positioning lines and stations. Routes have become more stylized, but the location has remained, mainly, geographical in nature. The 1932 edition was the last geographical map published before the introduction of beck's schematic map. Bec Maps First schematic map of London's rapid transit network was developed by Harry Beck in 1931. He was an employee of the London Underground who realized that since the railway runs mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely unrelated to the traveller, wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route matters. This approach is similar to that of electric circuits, although they were not the inspiration for Beck's map. His colleagues pointed out similarities, however, and he once produced a joke map with stations replaced by electric chain symbols and names, with terminology such as Bakerlite for the Bakerloo line. To this end, Beck has developed map with c Direct segments connecting them and the Thames; and lines that only run vertically, horizontally or diagonally 45 degrees. To make the map clearer and emphasize the connections, Beck is differentiated between conventional stations marked with tick marks and diamond-marked interchange stations. The London Underground was initially sceptical of its proposal, as it was an unfinished project of free time and was pre-presented to the public in a small brochure in 1933. However, it immediately became popular, and Metro used topological maps to illustrate the network ever since. Despite the difficulty of creating the map, Beck was paid only ten guineas for the work and design of the card edition (five guineas for the poster). After initial success, he continued to develop the Tube map until 1960, the only (and unpopular) edition of The 1939 Hans Scheger, which was the only exception. At the same time, in addition to placing new lines and stations, Beck constantly changed the design, for example, changed the symbol of the exchange from diamond to circle and changed the colors of the Central Line line from orange to red and Bakerloo line from red to brown. Beck's final design, in 1960, bears a strong resemblance to the current map. Beck lived in Finchley, North London, and one of his maps is still preserved on the south platform at Finchley Central Station, on the Northern Line. In 1997, Beck's value was posthumously recognized, and by 2013 this statement was printed on each Tube map: This diagram is an evolution of the original design conceived in 1931 by Harry Beck. After Beck Unofficial map of the rate area 1, which shows the approximate geographical location of stations and lines. By 1960, Beck had come across an advertising officer for the Met, Harold Hutchison, who himself was not a designer, but in the same year developed his own version of the subway map. It removed the smoothed corners of Beck's design and created some highly-close areas (most notably around Liverpool Street Station), and the lines were generally less straight. However, Hutchison also introduced interchange symbols (circles only for metro, squares for connections with British Rail's main service lines) that were black and allowed multiple lines across them, unlike Beck, who used one circle for each line at the interchange, colored according to the corresponding line. In 1964, the design of the map was adopted by Paul Garbutt, who, like Beck, created the map in his spare time because of his dislike of Hutchison's design. Garbutt's card restored curves and curves on the chart, but retained Hutchison's black interchange circles, but the squares were replaced by circles with a dot inside. Garbutt continued to produce underground maps for at least another 20 years. Pipe cards no longer bear the designer's name in when the elements of the map then bore a very strong resemblance to today's map. While the standard Metro map avoided the presentation of most basic services, the new map, issued in 1973, was the first to depict the Subway and above-ground rail services in a schematic style that closely matched Beck's projects. This version was created by Tim Demuth from the London Office of Transport Advertising and was co- sponsored by British Rail and London Transport. The Demut card did not replace the standard subway map, but continued to be published as an additional resource, later known as the London Connections map. Some changes have been made to the map over the years. Later projects included changes to the network, such as Docklands Light Railway and the extension of the Jubilee Line. The map has also been expanded to include routes overseen by Transport for London, such as TfL Rail, and mark metro stops that connect to national rail services, links to airports and river services. In some cases, stations within walking distance are being shown, often with the distance between them, such as the distance of Fenchurch Street from Tower Hill (the evolution of the pedestrian route between the bank and the monument stations that was once marked noticeably on the map). In addition, the current map also includes non-step access notations. In addition, travel payment zones have been added to help passengers judge the cost of the trip. However, the map remains true to Beck's original scheme, and many other transport systems use schematic maps to represent their services, which are probably inspired by Beck.