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A web developer has created a fascinating map that details exactly where every Tube train is on the London underground network at any given time. Matthew Somerville, 37, spent hours working on the ...
He's highlighted travel zones with numbers by each station, rather than the grey shading TfL uses. Plus, having both tube and rail lines on the map makes it much easier to see all the interchanges.
Rail strikes: How a free walking map is helping people get to work without the Tube. The London Footways map shows pleasant and direct routes through the capital’s backstreets .
There was a time when visitors to London would carry an A to Z map to navigate the city’s Undergound railway system, referring to the iconic London Transport map printed on its back as they d… ...
Ben Plowden, director of surface strategy and planning at TfL, said: “People often use the Tube map to navigate the city, but many don’t realise just how close some stations are to each other ...
In August 2014, James Burbage asked TfL to “supply a geographically accurate map of all the stations, platforms, lines and tracks that form the London Underground, London Overground, Docklands ...
Serial British rail YouTuber [Geoff Marshall] thinks otherwise, and has programmed a Tube map on a vintage BBC Micro. ... We think the Tube Map would make a great test for any retrocomputer, ...
TfL tells us it usually updates the pocket tube map twice a year, printing 12m copies. That's 24m maps per year, or 2m per month — at a cost of around £100,000 for the print run, or 5p per map.
The Tube is one old railway -- in fact, the world's oldest underground train system. Steam-powered carriages were used when it opened in 1863. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images ...
Somerville said about the map: "Live departure data is fetched from the TfL API, and then it does a bit of maths and magic. It’s surprisingly okay given this was done in only a few hours and the ...
When the night tube finally arrives, which lines will be operational and how often will the trains run on each line?. We've made a map that shows you the frequencies of trains between 1am and 5am.
This new exhibition at The Map House in London’s Knightsbridge focuses on the capital’s underground railway, the world’s first. ‘Mapping the Tube: 1863-2023’ (on view 25 October – 30 November 2024) ...