A Guide To Alternative London Tube Maps (original) (raw)

By M@ Last edited 167 months ago

Last Updated 28 March 2011

M@ A Guide To Alternative London Tube Maps

The ultimate uncluttered Tube map.

The London Underground map has probably prompted more pastiches, tributes and piss-takes than any inanimate object in history. We've rounded up as many as we can find. The wonderful Geofftech did something similar a few years back, but the field has since moved on into three dimensions and realtime mashups.

Note that the Tube Map is a copyrighted image and reproductions (doctored or otherwise) should not be published without permission from TfL. Many glorious efforts have long vanished from the web because of this.

3-D Tube map
3-D Tube map (with moving trains)
3-D Tube map (schematic, rotatable)
3-D Station maps
Accessible Tube Map (unofficial)
Accessible Tube Map (official...PDF)
Anagrams (station names rearranged)
Biblical Tube map
Brighton link (and other manipulations)
Chromatic (beautiful circle of overlapping line colours)
Coffee shops
Curvy
Curvier
Curvier still
Daily Mail's moral underground
Distance between stations (as warped grid)
District Line hand-drawn map (from our ongoing series)
Doctor Who (each line represents a different doctor)
Fashion (station names painfully replaced by famous fashion brands)
Fictional (non-existent stations from film / TV / other)
Flooded (map showing potential effects of sea level rises by 2100)
Football (station names changed to footballers/teams)
Galaxy (pastiche Tube map showing our galaxy's salient features)
Geographic (the stations in almost the right places)
Geographic (an even slicker alternative to the above...PDF)
German (station names translated)
Ghost Stations (closed underground stations)
Google Doodle (celebrating the Underground's 150th birthday)
The Great Bear (original alt.Tube map by artist Simon Patterson)
Historic (scans of official Tube maps dating back to 1908)
How to Take Your Appendix Out On The Piccadilly Line (Monty Python silliness from 1974)
Lampshade (novelty furniture)
Large print (official)
Latin America (map of the region in the style of a Tube map, PDF)
LEGO (official, celebrating 150 years of the network in 2013)
Life Expectancy (by Tube station)
Lord of the Rings (pastiche showing Middle Earth Locations, here in T-shirt form)
Memory (Londoners asked to draw network from memory)
Morphing (map morphs to an old Harry Beck version, then a geographic map)
Musical Tube (musicians and groups from Sony)
Novelty Tube Journeys (pastiche showing connected ideas as Tube lines)
Olympic Superstars (official TfL map with station names replaced by athletes)
Olympic venues
Realtime (mashup of current Tube train locations on Google map)
Realtime (as above, but on a standard Tube map)
Restaurants
Small theatres (official map via Transport for London)
Science (pastiche map listing important scientists)
Super Mario Tube (in the style of the video game Mario 3)
Synaesthesia map
Toilets at stations (official)
Travel times between stations (map warps depending on your station)
Twin Tubes (showing sidings, depots and both directions)
Uncluttered (our own minimalist Tube map)
Underground (how much of the Tube is actually underground?)
Upside-down (PDF; suddenly south London has far more stations)
US Interstates (influenced by Tube map)
US Numbered Highways (influenced by Tube map)
Victoria Line slander (station names changed to reflect station character)
Walking (dotted lines show stations that are closer by foot than by Tube)
Walking (PDF; another version showing walking distances between stations)
Walking (and a third variant)
Waterways (with embedded sound files)