London Underground Map History

The london underground network began 159 years ago, on 10 january 1863 with the opening of the metropolitan railway, which carried. His map shows the actual layout of the tube’s various tracks, as well as the overground lines. Tube maps have existed in various forms as far back as when the first section of what we now know as the london underground opened in january 1863.

London connections map all rail and tube lines. Edward johnston's original design for the london underground symbol and max, he adds, we've got to make those commuters laugh! macdonald gill's primary coloured wonderground map was published. Its tunnels stretch for 249 miles throughout london, often overlapping and giving passengers plenty of […]

The story of how the underground map evolved is almost as troubled and fraught with complexities as the transport network it represents.

The map is cut into thousands of small squares (tiles) and served on demand. As the early sketched image on the right depicts, beck based his map upon an electrical schematic. From ‘british museum’ to ‘down street’, the fascinating london underground map that shows every single abandoned ‘ghost station’. The first map to be produced by the uerl in 1908 showed its own companies (listed first on the key), but also the other tube lines and the metropolitan railway, in different colours.