Fantastic London transport map is a rail buff’s delight

Fantastic London transport map is a rail buff's delight

If you’re as cartographically obsessed as me, you’ll quite happily spend long hours poring over Ordnance Survey maps, archive maps, route diagrams and rail maps, and if you’ve any interest in the London Transport network, here’s a great map for you!

Fantastic London transport map is a rail buff's delight

Created by French mapping wizards carto.metro, the map offers a ton of fascinating detail about the capital’s network, letting you peruse track layouts, section opening and closing dates, crossovers, sidings, closed stations, disused lines and platform positions.

You can view the map here – and zoom in and out to your heart’s content – and there’s also a handy downloadable PDF file here.

7 Comments on “Fantastic London transport map is a rail buff’s delight”

  1. That’s one of the best ‘real’ tube maps I’ve seen, interesting stuff. The Victoria line runs well to the west of where I imagined it.

  2. on the subject of tube maps, there’s a chap in Greenwich market who does a nice line (see what I did there) in alternative tube map prints. I’ve got a big pacman tube map print on my office wall at the mo.

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