Official Map from London Underground - slow to download
You would have thought that the London Underground's official site would have been the best place to find a map of the Tube, well there certainly is a tube map there but it does take a long time to download. You'll also have to accept some terms and conditions about the copyright and that you're using it for personal use,and that you're not going to sell it, or copy it or do anything with it, etc etc, blah, blah, blah. The only other advantage of this is that it does show the zones which the stations are in. If you really want to go to the trouble of getting it, go for it, but the places below are faster alternatives.
This is London Tube Map - fast to download
The best place that I have found for fast downloading is the This is London website, which has an overview of the map and when you click on the words "full size" at the top of the map, it will enlarge very quickly (and I have a comparitively slow PC!).
Huge collection of London Underground Maps through the years
What more can I say. A pretty good source of tube maps from 1908 to 1999. Also includes a personal favourite of mine which is a Geographical representation of the tube map and proportionally shows the real distances between tube stations. So can see just how close Covent Garden and Leicester Square stations really are!!!!
This is a useful addition to the real tube map so you don't fall into the traps that many tourists do. "As Bill Bryson pointed out in his book Notes from a Small Island an out-of-town visitor using Mr.Beck's map (Harry Beck designed the tube map in 1931) to get from, say, Bank Station to Mansion House would quite understandably board a Central Line train to Liverpool Street, transfer to the Circle Line and continue for another five stops to Mansion House and emerge 200 yards down the street from where he started."
Hope you find this useful - more handy hints for tourists travelling on the London Underground in the weeks to come. Have a browse through some of my earlier articles for some humorous "underground rules".
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