The London Overground is being rebranded and divided into six lines with their own names and colours. It currently appears on the Tube map as a sprawling orange network that some say has become too tricky to navigate. The six lines will be renamed Mildmay, Windrush, Suffragette, Weaver, ...
out ofVictoria,Waterloo, andLondon Bridgestations. Raised on handsome brick viaducts above thefloodplainor sunk into cuttings through the rolling uplands, the converging railways form one of the most distinctive topographic features of south London. Together theLondon Underground(the “Tube”) of the...
Now those lines are better integrated into the ‘Tube’ network, they now have their own names and colors to go with the familiar Victoria, Northern, Elizabeth and many other lines. Each London tube line has its own colour that’s used in the roundel circle, signs and the famous ...
City and South London Railway’s line from King William Street (a now disused station) to Stockwell was the first to be created by boring a tunnel through the earth and then lining it to create a tube. The line, a forerunner of what is now the Northern Line, opened in December, 1890....
No more than the name of a Tube terminus (the north-east end of the Piccadilly Line) to many Londoners, Cockfosters has an interesting origin story. The area in north London, which lies partly in the London Borough of Enfield and partly in the London Borough of Barnet, owes its name to...
Allocating non-descriptive line names to mainline rail services (as opposed to, say, East London line for that part of LO) is fairly pointless, I think, and just makes it appear on the map as a Tube line when it clearly isn’t one!
A second strike by Tube drivers on the line is also planned for Nov. 7. Organized by Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen members, the strike threatens to bring the line, which is used by more than 800,000 passengers a day, to a standstill. ...
Tip for using the Tube for sight-seeing:The Piccadilly Line stops at some of London’s key sights andneighborhoods– Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden, Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge – and it runs from Heathrow's airport terminals. It's a good Tube line to base yourself near. ...
(though you could walk to Bank districtline, aka Monument, and go in two stops, but his point is still well made). Possibly, even Finchley Road to Hampstead (change twice, 9 stops) could be walked in half an hour, although what neither thestandard tube mapnor theA-Z mapwill tell you...
Tube Stations Renamed – Plausible Alternatives For All 270 Click the map above for the full version A few weeks ago, Tube Challenge World Record Holder,Geoff Marshall, came up with the brilliant idea of renaming all of London’s 270 tube stations with other plausible names. He made the requ...