Garbutt's map
A map ...technically, I learn from Wikipedia, a topological diagram... of the London Underground, scanned from the 1965 free leaflet featured in my previous picture. The map derives from the original designed in 1933 by Harry Beck. Beck's map had been succeeded in 1960 by an unsuccessful design by Harold Hutchinson (see next photo); the version seen here, designed by Paul Garbutt, followed in 1964.
As previously mentioned the system has changed considerably since 1965. The East London and the Hammersmith & City Lines were part of the Metropolitan; the Stanmore branch of the Bakerloo has become the northern end of the Jubilee; the Finsbury Park branch of the Northern Line is now part of the main line system. The Victoria Line was under construction, and I see that I marked its route in pencil, probably during one of my dissociative trances at school ...a Maths lesson most likely. The Jubilee Line was unthought of, and I seem to remember that when it was first proposed the intended route was beneath Strand and Fleet Street. Surprisingly these thoroughfares, historically the main link between Westminster and the City, have never had a counterpart on the underground system. The line was originally built into Charing Cross, as though onward extension to the City was envisaged, but in the end it was decided to put it through inner South London instead. The Victoria Line also was extended south of the river. The Jubilee and Victoria Lines have increased the underground's presence south of the Thames, but it remains principally a North London phenomenon. In South London its niche in the transport ecology is filled by the suburban lines of what used to be the Southern Region of British Railways.
Other, less thoroughgoing changes since 1965 are the extension of the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow Airport, the loss of the Aldwych shuttle and the remodelling of the lines around Charing Cross. Strand station, on the Northern Line, was so close to Charing Cross that you could see the platforms of one from the other ...in my experience a peculiarity unique in London, certainly on the tube lines. Strand had been the original terminus of the line from North London, but the station had been retained when the line was extended. Strand closed in 1973 so that alterations could be made in readiness for the Jubilee Line. As I remember it Charing Cross was then renamed Embankment but after the Jubilee was diverted away in 1999 a connection was made between the Bakerloo's Trafalgar Square station and the old Strand platforms to make a revived Charing Cross. Whatever happened to that detached part of the Central Line, from Epping to Ongar?
Garbutt's map
A map ...technically, I learn from Wikipedia, a topological diagram... of the London Underground, scanned from the 1965 free leaflet featured in my previous picture. The map derives from the original designed in 1933 by Harry Beck. Beck's map had been succeeded in 1960 by an unsuccessful design by Harold Hutchinson (see next photo); the version seen here, designed by Paul Garbutt, followed in 1964.
As previously mentioned the system has changed considerably since 1965. The East London and the Hammersmith & City Lines were part of the Metropolitan; the Stanmore branch of the Bakerloo has become the northern end of the Jubilee; the Finsbury Park branch of the Northern Line is now part of the main line system. The Victoria Line was under construction, and I see that I marked its route in pencil, probably during one of my dissociative trances at school ...a Maths lesson most likely. The Jubilee Line was unthought of, and I seem to remember that when it was first proposed the intended route was beneath Strand and Fleet Street. Surprisingly these thoroughfares, historically the main link between Westminster and the City, have never had a counterpart on the underground system. The line was originally built into Charing Cross, as though onward extension to the City was envisaged, but in the end it was decided to put it through inner South London instead. The Victoria Line also was extended south of the river. The Jubilee and Victoria Lines have increased the underground's presence south of the Thames, but it remains principally a North London phenomenon. In South London its niche in the transport ecology is filled by the suburban lines of what used to be the Southern Region of British Railways.
Other, less thoroughgoing changes since 1965 are the extension of the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow Airport, the loss of the Aldwych shuttle and the remodelling of the lines around Charing Cross. Strand station, on the Northern Line, was so close to Charing Cross that you could see the platforms of one from the other ...in my experience a peculiarity unique in London, certainly on the tube lines. Strand had been the original terminus of the line from North London, but the station had been retained when the line was extended. Strand closed in 1973 so that alterations could be made in readiness for the Jubilee Line. As I remember it Charing Cross was then renamed Embankment but after the Jubilee was diverted away in 1999 a connection was made between the Bakerloo's Trafalgar Square station and the old Strand platforms to make a revived Charing Cross. Whatever happened to that detached part of the Central Line, from Epping to Ongar?