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Clear maps to get you going

A good transport system enables passengers to reach their destination easily by the most efficient route. London’s transport maps followed a familiar geographic style that mirrored the landscape of the city until 1933.

That was the year Harry Beck produced a diagrammatic map so simple (and now so famous) that it has been copied by virtually every transport system in the world.

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Map

Image of a Pocket bus map, issued by London General Omnibus Company Ltd, April 1911

Map

Image of a Poster map; District Railway, artist unknown, 1908

Photographic reproduction

Image of a A satirical Punch cartoon by George Morrow, making fun of the complexity of the geographical Underground map, 1909

Poster

Image of a Poster; Piccadilly line extended, by Reginald Percy Gossop, 1932

Poster

Image of a Poster; Green Line coaches, by John Dixon, 1931

Poster

Image of a Poster; Far flung our bus routes (map), by MacDonald Gill, 1928

Poster

Image of a Poster; The way to winter sales, by Reginald Percy Gossop, 1927

Map

Image of a Pocket map: London Electric Railways, issued by the Underground Group but with a Metropolitan Railway front cover, 1908-1909

Poster

Image of a Car card; City and South London Railway line diagram, pre 8 August 1922

Promotional mirror

Image of a Advertising pocket or vanity mirror for

Line diagram

Image of a Framed line diagram/map from a Metropolitan Railway carriage, c1925

Map

Image of a Poster; Underground Map Of London, artist unknown, 1925

Map

Image of a Preparatory drawing for diagrammatic map of the Paris Metro, by Henry C Beck, 1951

Promotional powder compact

Image of a Ladies powder compact with an Underground map on cover, c1955

Map

Image of a Pocket Underground map, issued by London underground, June 2005

Photographic reproduction

Image of a HC Beck's spoof map diagram entitled The Underground 'straight eight' all-electric skit-set circuit diagram, 1933

Map

Image of a Diagrammatic map of Sydney Suburban and City Underground Railway, 1939

Line diagram

Image of a Inside line diagram showing Northern line stations from High Barnet, 1970-1975

Scarf

Image of a Rayon head scarf with a 1948 London Transport Underground map reproduced as the design, c1950

Cigarette case

Image of a
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