London Tube Map
The London Tube 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 first schematic Tube map was designed by Harry Beck in 1931.[1][2] Since then, it has been expanded to include more of London’s public transport systems, including the Docklands Light Railway, London Overground, the Elizabeth line, Tramlink, the London Cable Car and Thameslink.
As London’s early transport system was operated by a variety of independent companies, there were no complete maps of the network, just for the individual companies’ routes. The maps were not typically schematic and were simply the line overlaid on a regular city map. There was no integration of the companies’ services or any cooperation in advertising.
London Tube Map 2024
Tube map was voted one of Britain’s top 10 design icons which included Concorde, Mini, Supermarine Spitfire, K2 telephone box, World Wide Web and the AEC Routemaster bus. Since 2004, Art on the Underground has been commissioning artists to create covers for the pocket Tube map
- 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 Northern and City Railway – orange
- Metropolitan Railway – red
You can download the London Tube Map PDF using the link given below.