Beck's first draft was initially rejected by Underground bosses. His final version was published on January 1, 1933, and was” taken up with enthusiasm” by Londoners, with an order of 750,000 copies of ...
LONDON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - London's famous Tube travel map will feature new names including "Lioness", "Windrush" and "Suffragette" in a multi-million pound rebranding of the Overground train network ...
"Harry Beck's influence is enormous and wide ranging for transport maps. His concept was that when a passenger was underground, it didn't matter to them where they were above ground. As long as they ...
A nearly century-old snapshot of the London Underground could be yours – that is, if you have £100,000 to spare. Christie's is set to auction off a rare 1932 draft of the Tube map created by Harry ...
A new London Underground map flips the usual one on its head, imagining what the Tube system would look like if one major issue were fixed. It looks totally different from the normal one, which is top ...
LONDON — The oldest underground rapid-transit system in the world — the beloved, smelly, iconic, clanking, overstuffed Tube — is about to undergo its biggest expansion in decades with the opening of ...