please empty your brain below

PO box 1863 is a nice touch.
I'm someone who does the Manor House - Harringay Green Lanes change, quicker than remaining on the Piccadilly Line to Finsbury Park

Back in the days when there was still a train every 15 minutes, changing at Manor House was more likely to get you at least one GOBLIN train earlier than you would have done by changing at Finsbury Park.
Loads of Tube maps with very little change, but never a Bus map when there have been big changes.

Is this the same organisation?
Brilliant, just brilliant!

I can’t wait for my new leatherbound Tube Map Collector’s album. I wonder if it will be thinner to allow for the change in map paper.

I think you can still buy Izal, and from (painful) memory, I think the sheets are the perfect size for Tube maps 🙂
Why has the Uxbridge branch become a dual carriageway ? What is it supposed to signify ?
The biggest news is that the Central line is straighter again. The offset west of Bond Street had been introduced to allow Crossrail to make a symmetrical offset towards Paddington. They have fortunately spared us two more years of this incomplete depiction. I would expect the kink to return when they are finally ready to add the purple (T20??i?)

dg writes: The Central line has not changed since the last pocket tube map.

It remains offset on the new poster map.

I love the teetering between insular geekdom and self-aware parody. Every time I get too interested in something (anything), I put it down and move on to something else.
it was all excellent until:

The winner of competition #29 is Caroline from Colindale

credibility lost since 99% of train geeks are male!
although maybe they chose a woman just to make the men feel like it's not a male only activity!
credibility restored.
Finsbury Park is now shown as step-free too. I think that’s new?

dg writes: Added, thanks.
Remember when tube maps proudly showed the future as in "under construction".
I suppose that's too embarassing these days.
Someone will press to hard for Kilburn Park - Brondesbury - Kilburn (and maybe Queens Park - Brondesbury Park) to be added to the set of walking interchanges, and the whole thing will collapse in a heap of impossible angles.

Seriously, there is way too much information on this map now.
Your best post yet!! Brilliant.

Can't wait to see it used as the Guest Publication on Have I Got News For You!
I enjoyed this post.

I like that there are now less kinks in the Central and Metropolitan lines.

dg writes: On the pocket map, these lines have not changed.

The TFL website doesn't yet have this new map on display. They have a map dated March 2019, which I'm guessing never appeared in printed form. I haven't tallied the differences between that map and either of the paper maps preceding and suceeding it.

But I have noticed one thing. The TFL website's PDF download of the 'Standard Tube Map' (also dated March 2019) has increased in size from about 460kB (Dec 2018) to 6MB (March 2019), roughly a twelve fold increase. I think this is because the text on the map used to be displayed using fonts embedded in the PDF. Now TFL have decided not to embed fonts, and as a result every letter is in the form of an individual outline, increasing the file size. That's my guess, at least.
TfL haven't updated their online maps yet (presumably waiting till the official timetable change tomorrow), but the new Rail & Tube map is already on the National Rail website: London_Rail_Tube_0519.pdf

It adds one more walking interchange to the list: City Thameslink to St Paul's, which is quite a useful one. It also potentially creates the unfortunate impression that Harringay (GN) to Manor House is a walking interchange despite being about 1 km distant.

@kev: Presumably the gap on the Uxbridge branch is to make the two lines stand out from each other - dark blue and dark purple do tend to merge, especially on a paper map under electric light!
I clicked on the link to Laure Prouvost. Wow! Herein lies a priceless source of pretentious twaddle worthy of a lifetime's regular contribution to Private Eye's "Pseuds Corner" feature.
I shudder to think how much TfL has paid the "artist" to promote her work.
There's also a gap between the District & Picadilly between Acton Town & Ealing Broadway.
JonathanC: I have a feeling they haven’t embedded the fonts because they don’t work on audio e-readers (apparently).
Yet the celebrated three minute walk between Queensgate and Bayswater still isn't shown, so yet more generations will travel between the two by changing at Notting Hill!
Although Bayswater to Queensway(gate?) is an easy quick walk, it is not worthwhile for interchanging between lines.
Jonathan C: quick test on a page of just text, saved from illustrator with fonts 805k, with fonts outlined 1.905m, so more than twice the file size.
Bayswater to Queensway is not a useful interchange beyeeen setvices because changing at Notting Hill Gate is easier and usually quicker.

Lancaster Gate to Paddington mainline is a useful interchange, but the map would need a complete redraw to make those stations adjoin each other. The Paddington/OOC/Acton/Willesden area of the map became very blown up during the Beck era and no one's dared to make it more geographically accurate since.
Readers may like to know that's the 14th time this blog's comments have discussed the Bayswater/Queensway interchange.
The Hanger Lane - Park Royal interchange was added to the map just in time; the western Piccadilly is closed all this weekend and replacement buses are stopping at Hanger Lane instead of Park Royal.










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