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The Tube map (sometimes called the London Underground map) is a schematic transport map of the lines, stations and services of the London Underground, known colloquially as "the Tube", hence the map's name. The first schematic Tube map was designed by Harry Beck in 1931.
- The Modern Tube Diagram
- Tweaks and interference
- After Beck
Stingemore’s work was clever, but its impact was far from earth-shattering: the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL), which operated the tube, continued to publish large geographical maps alongside handy pocket-sized copies of his diagram. The man who created the tube map we know today was Harry Beck. Formerly an engineering draug...
As it stood, Beck’s tube map needed no improvement, but refinements were continually being worked in, many of them still with us today. By August 1933, the diamond-shaped interchanges were back to the neater rings of Beck’s original design (though they were still coloured rather than black). The following year, the colour scheme was updated, giving...
Probably the biggest misstep in the history of the tube map came in 1960. For the first time in nearly 30 years, London Transport (as UERL had by now become) created a new version of Beck’s map, updated to show the new Victoria line, without consulting him. Credited to publicity officer Harold Hutchison, the map didn’t just add a new line but also ...
- Darien Graham-Smith
Henry Charles Beck (4 June 1902 – 18 September 1974) was an English technical draughtsman who created the first diagrammatic London Underground Tube map in 1931. [1] Beck drew the diagram after being laid off by the Signalling Department of Underground Electric Railways of London.
Original 1933 Tube map. Now recognised across the world, the Tube map was originally the brainchild of Underground electrical draughtsman, Harry Beck, who produced this imaginative and...
Sep 19, 2024 · A play exploring the life of London Tube map creator Harry Beck has opened on the 50th anniversary of his death. First created in 1931, the map moved away from geographical features of the...
Mar 29, 2013 · Born in 1902, Beck was an English engineering draftsman who sparked a small revolution in the early 1930s when he created a radical new map of the London Underground.
London’s diagrammatic Underground map, first devised in 1931 by Harry Beck, can truly be described as a design classic. Over time, the map has evolved from tracing the first railways in the Capital to encompassing an integrated network that covers ever growing distances.
