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Looks like the new Northern line branch opened just in time to put local hero John Archer in more or less the right location.
No cartographical gymnastics for the Northern Line extension, no blobs and no zone zebra.
It would have worked better for me if the names all had some definite connection to the area, otherwise it might as well just be a list of names, and at least then the names could have some info against them rather than havibg to Google each one separately. Based on the map as a whole it looks as though the John Archer one is coincidental.
It would be extremely difficult to create a geographically accurate map of significant Londoners (Northwood Hills anyone? Fairlop?), let alone significant black Londoners. Also south London would be badly underrepresented.
I was at Nana Bonsu yesterday and found that the Rudi Patterson branch platforms were taped off leaving many passengers confused in the passageway, as the line diagram for the only southbound platform available showed the stops to John Archer and not all the stops to Sam King, even though most of the trains were going to the latter.

It's a good map, and has made me curious about the names and the people behind them. It also shows how much more pleasing the Underground map looks when it only shows the Underground, however useless for navigation it may actually be without all the other links and connections. So I won't say 'bring back Paul E Garbutt'
Different people will make different choices, but I’m surprised there was no place for Learie Constantine. I would have picked him or Walcott ahead of Weekes.

Dick Turpin is presumably the boxer, not the cricketer or highwayman.

I guess the named people are all deceased, so we have Bernie Grant but not Diane Abbott or Paul Boateng. There are some earlier MPs with known or suspected mixed/black ethnicity but they have links with slavery.
This shows that TfL have an alternative version of the tube map without fare zones, accessibility blobs and non-Tube lines, so why in heaven not make it available. In particular, the omission of fare zones and blobs (as absolutely essential as they are for some people) makes it far easier.
Nothing to do with the new connecting track added to this map near Kennington.

The Northern line Bank branch is closed this weekend between Bank and Kennington, will all through trains to / from Morden running via CX.

Looking at the status map, the interconnection double lines between the CX and Bank at Kennington are now shown in black indicating that there is no interchange between the Bank and CX branches at Kennington (which is correct).

However, as the Bank and CX branches have been shown with no physical track connection on the map since the Battersea extension opened (i.e. they appear as two unconnected lines), the map gives the impression that trains from the Morden branch currently terminate at Kennington Bank side (they can't).

This means that the map is showing that there is no way passengers from the Morden branch can get to stations on the CX branch and vice versa.

The interconnecting track that they have added for the Black History map should remain in place!

I was trying to see if there was a 'station' for Sol Plaatje, the first Secretary of the African National Congress. He lived in Leyton: 1914-17 then in other parts of London when he returned in later years. I thought Caernarvon Road was over near Leyton Station, but I was wrong, it is up near Whipps Cross so not for the Black History Tube Map.

My Dad would have been pleased to see Laurie Cunningham remembered, for his Leyton Orient years, ie not south of the river.
Although Laurie Cunningham did arguably have his greatest London based achievement at a south London club, coming on as a substitute for Wimbledon in their 1988 FA Cup triumph.
The treatment of Battersea and Kennington is far better here.










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