In this project, i decided to recreate the london underground tube metro system map entirely in powerpoint, make it interactive and then link it to an internet realtime update service. The route map continued to be developed and was issued in various formats and artistic styles until 1920, when. The inbuilt map provides the official tfl map of the city underground services with the ability to switch to an online street map view when an internet connection is available. London by tube was a fun book to read and kept me glued to the screen for many a night. The original map design was conceived by harry beck, an electrical engineer in 1931. Connect at london liverpool street for the city and central london, tottenham hale for the victoria line to kings cross, oxford circus, green park and victoria, or stratford london for connections to the dlr and canary wharf. The sights are marked in the map with red stars and each one is represented by a picture with caption. Thats one of the best real tube maps ive seen, interesting stuff. Jan 09, 20 london underground s tube map has been used as a metaphor for everything from the shape of the galaxy to famous footballers. I love this map, such a creative solution all those years ago. London underground there are 11 colourcoded underground or tube lines. Fantastic london transport map is a rail buffs delight.
Moovit has an easytodownload london underground map, that serves as your offline london tramlink, train or tube map while traveling. It should be used in place of this raster image when not inferior. Hounslow west stepfree access for manual wheelchairs only. London underground releases official geographic map boing boing. Overview the london tube map application is a superb route planner for the london underground tubesystem with many unique features. We have a gif version and a pdf version best for printing.
The tube map is a schematic transport map of the lines, stations and services of the london. London underground releases official geographic map. Your single musthave map when travelling across london. The new london tube map from citywalks is a pdf street map with the underground network and the top 10 attractions for tourists in the central zone 1.
Beck and beyond, looks at the way the london underground map has inspired maps for rail services around the world and the way the map has been used by creative folk including tim fishlock who managed to create an alphabet by using sections of the map it makes a lovely looking poster. Sep 03, 2010 to improve your skills and knowledge of powerpoint, its often a great idea to give yourself a seemingly impossible task. View the 2020 london underground tube map of london, your helpful underground route planner to organise a fantastic day trip in london. In this project, i decided to recreate the london underground tubemetro system map entirely in powerpoint, make it interactive and then link it to an internet realtime update service. It includes variations of the standard london underground maps, but also others that show the surface buildings or are richly illustrated. This map shows all trains yellow dots on the london underground network in approximately real time.
View the london underground map courtesy of the bbc. List of london underground stations openstreetmap wiki. Request access to excel mapping template for london boroughs and wards. An accurate london underground tube map is a confusing mess. Sep 21, 2015 sometimes in design accuracy is not helpful to users. Click on the image of the map below to open the free pdf file. The london underground diagram lud is a cognitive artifact and a wellknown example of representational efficiency, having been copied by urban transportation systems worldwide. The official london underground map is an essential part of living in the capital, but several alternatives have been released in a bid to make commuters lives easier. Online tube map january 2020a transport for london. Metro map of london london underground the oldest in the world.
Journey planner for bus, tube, london overground, dlr, tfl rail, national rail, tram, river bus, emirates air line, coach. London bridge there is no stepfree access tofrom the jubilee line until midaugust 2015. We ve been waiting with bated breath for the new tube map to hit. Tube maps are normally provided in pdf format online. Travel on rail services is also free but on some routes the. London underground s tube map has been used as a metaphor for everything from the shape of the galaxy to famous footballers. The official london underground map designed by harry beck in 1933 and arguably the most. However, on my last trip i was unable to find a place where these maps were available either to take or buy. The official transport for london tfl tube map in an interactive app. There is the tube map as youve grown to know and love it, and there are spins offs many spins off, that ive come across and collected, and are all nicely here for you in one place.
Visit our website where you can let us know what you think about this map and your experiences of travelling on the. Building an interactive public transport map application. It has no connection to transport for london and does not represent the official depiction of the london underground system. What would happen if you tried to make a giant tube map out of quality street chocolate. The tube map sometimes called the london underground map or the tfl services map is a schematic transport map of the lines, stations and services of the london underground, known colloquially as the tube, hence the map s name. The map is cut into thousands of small squares tiles and served on demand. We completed the london underground and docklands light railway networks. North circular a406 south circular a205 favourite river buses. This map is a prototype, the information is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of publication. The map base includes building shapes and all of central london s roads plotted and labelled with live text. Excel mapping template for london boroughs and wards. Download the map in pdf and take it with you on your trip to london. The underground map is a project which is creating street histories for the areas of london and surrounding counties lying inside the m25. Londons walk the tube map reveals the real distance.
London bridge d4 london city airport g4 london fields f2 loughborough junction d4 loughton g1 lower sydenham f5 m maida vale c2 malden manor b5 manor house e2 manor park g2 mansion house d3 marble arch c3 maryland f2 marylebone c3 maze hill f4 merstham d6 merton park c5 mile end f3 mill hill broadway c1. Building an interactive public transport map application in. Download pdf london underground all zones tube map. The beauty of the orthogonal london underground map is that it provides exactly the information the rider needs the name of the line with color coding, the direction of travel east, west, north or south the same way that the directions to the platforms are given, and the stops on the way. There is an entry for each station on the london underground and gives a nutshell history of each station and interesting tidbits on what happened in the area around those stations. This uptodate and easytouse london tube map marks all stations which have stepfree access, riverboat services, trams, airports and more. Please supply a geographically accurate map of all the stations,platforms, lines and tracks that form the london underground, london. Tfl interactive map plan a journey transport for london. Cep discussion paper no 72 september 2015 the benefits of. Locate the best sights and attractions in rome using our free pdf tourist map. Transport for london produce a number of documents to help people get around london more easily. The schematic tube map, designed by harry beck in 1931, was voted a. If you want to download the free pdf file, click on the right mouse button at touch displays long press, selectsave target link.
The different versions are available here for free. The detailed london street map covers a square area of london stretching from hammersmith in the west to aldgate in the east, and highbury in the north to clapham in the south. The updated tube map, created by wikipedia user sameboat, has been praised for being easier to. The first schematic tube map was designed by harry beck in 1931. It just published an internallyused geographic version of map pdf. Weve been waiting with bated breath for the new tube map to hit. London underground tube map poster london transport museum shop. Add favourites for quick access to live status, journeys and places. Svg source version provides minimal interactivity of highlighting individual line and showing the zonal system as desired. Freedom pass holders travel free on london underground, overground, dlr and all bus services 24 hours a day. Journal of economic education 1969 2015 books by language additional collections journal of paediatric dentistry.
A free mapping tool that allows you to create a thematic map of london without any specialist gis skills or software all you need is microsoft excel. Realtime route planner that will navigate you around disruptions on the tube. The london underground is a public rapid transit system serving london region, england and. This tool uses sirv dynamic imaging to zoom fast into the image. Locate the best sights and attractions in london using our free pdf tourist map. If you do not have suitable pdf software installed, the following are available at no cost.
Is there somewhere in london one can go to acquire a hardcopy of a rail system map such as tfls london s rail and tube services map the pdf file looks like its designed to be printed on large format paper and folded. Seen on twitter, the greater anglia inner suburban services which will be taken over by tfl are roughly shown. Thanks to the londonists exhaustive list of examples, here are a few. London tube map the london tube map pdf 265kb is a design classic and makes navigating london s underground rail network simple. Make sure you dont miss any of london s highlights. Plan your sightseeing adventure with our informative, comprehensive guidebook.
Mar 28, 2015 buy london underground guide 2015 2nd revised edition by cross, jason, meskell, nick isbn. Stepfree tube guide a tube map to help you plan your journey without using stairs and escalators available in large print. Provision is made for the future integration of the crossrail line. These pdf maps of london show in detail the center of the city with the top attractions and the nearest tube stations. Visit our website where you can let us know what you think.
Route map of london underground, london overground, docklands light railway and crossrail, including most greenlighted proposals. There are even a couple that show what else is underneath the streets of london. The victoria line runs well to the west of where i imagined it. Tfl produce a geographically accurate tube and rail map, but dont. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Getting around london your guide to accessibility available in large print, braille and audio cd. This is an extraordinary collection of maps of the london underground both from the historical and artistic points of view.
Tube map tfl london underground route planner apps on. An overview of the rail industry in great britain pdf. London city dlr to bank and stratford southend greater anglia to liverpool street out of system street grade transfers out of the central area walking distance street level transfers are portrayed on the map. Sep 18, 2015 it just published an internallyused geographic version of map pdf, however, for the first time in a centuryand its awesome. Stepfree london tube map a version of the tube map highlighting everywhere you can access the tube without the need to negotiate steps. The first section of the crossrail franchise, tfl rail was added in may 2015. This map is a simplified version without the station index. Tfl tube and rail maps, bus maps, santander cycle maps, river maps, congestion charge maps, oyster ticket stop map, visitor and tourist maps, audio maps. A tube map of the london underground thats far more useful. Tfl has now made the downloadable pdf version live on its website.
Take the iconic london underground tube map, designed by harry beck in 1931. Information on all forms of transport in london including cycle hire. Tottenham court road central line trains will not stop at this station until early. There are several versions of the famous tube map available, but we think the one featuring overland rail links and tram services is most useful and certainly most comprehensive. Carte haute definition, vectorielle, plus precise, au format pdf. Ben mathis found a london rail map that had the lines now in the new colour but thats still not the. Due to that you will be able to find quick and easy the nearest tube station to the london attractions in the center of the city. The map base includes building shapes and all of central londons roads plotted and labelled with live text. Forget about running out of phone battery or paying costly internet charges to find your way around. The map does not necessarily show service patterns or guarantee direct trains between the stations shown and some peak only or limited services are omitted.
Most of it was in place on openstreetmap back in 2007 the stations with increasing detail added over time, including things like tunnel sections of track. Pick up a handy, pocketsized map of london before you go and youll be ready to start exploring as soon as you arrive in the city. Transport for london has all the information you need for getting around london. The tube network has 11 lines and 270 stations forming a rail network of 249 miles 402 km. This is the most recent version of the underground map poster may 2015 provided by tfl that includes the new tfl rail extension from liverpool street.
In so many ways its perfect, and yet as an accurate reflection of where the stations and lines actually are, well, as a map it doesnt really work at all. Click on the smaller thumbnails of each map for the full size version. Tfl has released a batch of documents which show almost every underground station in glorious 3d format. The network is divided into nine zones, with zone1 being the most central area. London s subway system switched early to an abstract map pdf, and it became a legendary work of design. London street map illustrator, svg, pdf, jpeg formats. I have similar things for the london buses and national rail, and an awesome bookmarkable train times journey planner. Firstly on twitter, ben mathis found a london rail map that had the lines.
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