please empty your brain below
Additionally Tooting has also gained ♿️ Step-free Accessibility with a wheelchair blob in addition to Colindale (received it way back in Feb 2025 but TfL for whatever reason didn’t bother updating it on the July 2025 version for over a year until now!)

Achyut | 06.07.26 - 7:14 a.m. | #

Change 2 - Isn't that old tube maps in the largely empty rack?

Bob Walker | 06.07.26 - 7:22 a.m. | #

Probably an obvious question, but what if a station is exactly 10 minutes walk away? It doesn't fit into either category.

Trevor S | 06.07.26 - 7:31 a.m. | #

Time is a continuous measurement, so technically every walking duration is either shorter or longer than 10.0000 minutes.

But please don't give the tube map designers an idea for a third symbol :)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.07.26 - 7:34 a.m. | #

TfL's journey planner has Pimlico to Millbank Pier being exactly 10 minutes - must be why there's no connection shown Trevor!

Marian | 06.07.26 - 7:40 a.m. | #

Some unanswered questions from TfL that they’ve always failed to explain so far that I’ve found interesting:

1️⃣ Why’s it called the ‘Tube Map’ when 43% - 51% stations of it remain Tube stations i.e. with served by solid lines (bit.ly/4bugB9F) leaving half the map not even being Tube in the first place?

2️⃣ If so, why do the variants like the detailed tube map guides (bit.ly/4p5QU4P) list everything ‘including…’ by the title, or the fact that the Night version is called ‘Night Tube AND London Overground map’ (bit.ly/44fmfbN)?

3️⃣ Thameslink was re-added in 2020 via a Press announcement explicitly stating its a ‘temporary’ measure during covid (bit.ly/4aEQahj) - so why is it still here in 2026 some 4 Prime Minister resignations later & not re-removed like in 1998?

4️⃣ If TfL thinks Thameslink is any unique than all other remaining TOCs to be featured here as it operates a ‘through London’ service (bit.ly/4eN2ped) - why is Southern Rail excluded that runs from Watford via Shepherd’s Bush through Zone 2 all the way down to the Croydon stations & beyond?

5️⃣ Why does the map say Thameslink “not operated” by TfL - when the DLR, Overground, Elizabeth Line & Trams also aren’t operated by TfL directly themselves either instead contracting to private companies?

6️⃣ About 100 London stations are left outside of TfL’s Tube Map (bit.ly/4vMcePk) compared to the Tube Map’s 500+ stations - so what’s the purpose of the ‘Tube’ Map’s existence anymore if the seperate Rail Services map exists already in addition?

7️⃣ A Majority of tube map stations have become Step-free (bit.ly/4flxwgY) - so isn’t it about time to reverse course & highlight the stations not having accessibility instead to make the map neater?

8️⃣ Why does the map show Maidenhead, Twyford & Reading so far north of the River Thames when they’re south of it - like what’s the point of re-adding the River since 2009 if it doesn’t even highlight the stations in relation to it?

9️⃣ When is TfL gonna finally stop isolating the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames as the sole London Borough to be excluded from the Tube Map given every other borough has some form of representation on it with at least a single station & provide some form of TfL Rail to the borough?

🔟 Since the 2020s began, TfL has removed generously giving out free Night Tube Maps, London's Rail & Tube services (& South-East England) foldout maps, paper Bus maps of C, N, S, E & W London, Continuing your journey guides from Tube Stations, Train timetables printed for London Overground lines & TfL Rail, Bus spider maps, Oyster card wallet holders & who knows how much more - so why does it still continue to print Pocket Tube Maps over 90+ years later?

Achyut | 06.07.26 - 7:59 a.m. | #

TfL never fully answer Achyut's very long FoI requests.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.07.26 - 8:03 a.m. | #

Plus ça change.
You seemed to struggle to find anything to moan about with this one, but you got there :)

Frank F | 06.07.26 - 8:07 a.m. | #

Art on the Underground have now launched their Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish webpage, and apparently...

"Gallagher’s artwork suggests that much like the map, travelling through the Underground involves moving through unseen and liminal spaces. For Gallagher, liminal spaces are vital for holding a generosity towards one another in public space."

diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.07.26 - 8:28 a.m. | #

A pity they do not revert to the size the map used to be.

dg writes: still 15x22 cm, as in 1933

Barry Coppock | 06.07.26 - 8:39 a.m. | #

The new map is online for me now!

Mike Roberts | 06.07.26 - 8:52 a.m. | #

I'm struggling to focus on the artwork. Is it my fading eyes or am I not the only one? Maybe it's better in real life.

Pity they didn't remodel the leaflet rack with fewer slots as they rarely seem to have maps in more than a couple.

At least we still have paper maps.

Andrew S | 06.07.26 - 9:53 a.m. | #

For the past few years, I have argued that the map, now overloaded with every conceivable piece of information, is well past its best. Compare it with Madrid's map: despite also being a similar pocket map and the same physical size as London's, the 'ingenious' use of folded paper makes it more legible.

There will inevitably come a point when Thameslink services are replaced by the Overground and, perhaps, services in south-east London are incorporated too, rendering the current format unsustainable. Will the map have to grow in size, or will the pocket map simply disappear altogether?

Steve | Homepage | 06.07.26 - 10:02 a.m. | #

Similar information overload on the TfL website, where a simple tube journey request is larded with pre-programmed and extraneous details of cycling, rail, tram, bus and walking routes instead of a basic Underground one.

Labourer | 06.07.26 - 10:12 a.m. | #

People walk at different speeds. Why not put distances which remain the same regardless?
We moved away from saying how long a walk would take from the station to the destination after some people complained that the '10 minute walk' took them half an hour!

Cornish Cockney | 06.07.26 - 10:27 a.m. | #

There's no physical difference between "interchange" and "internal interchange", it's just mapping convenience. They shouldn't be differentiated.
The GN Electrics service should also be included, at least between Moorgate and Finsbury Park, to all intents and purposes and passenger perspectives a tube line. Especially when the off-peak service doubles from December.

Strabismus | 06.07.26 - 10:27 a.m. | #

Ignoring the fact that the ‘Tube Map’ has now become the ‘TfL Rail Services Map’ (for which I’m sure those purists who insist ‘tube’ means ‘deep tube’ will be further upset about), I do have to wonder about the designation of river services interchanges.

If you have to leave the station and walk for more than ten minutes, does that really constitute an interchange?

Tom | 06.07.26 - 11:17 a.m. | #

Walking time also assumes that you don't get lost in transit.

Still Anon | 06.07.26 - 11:52 a.m. | #

Since there's an Internal Interchange, there should also be an External Interchange, maybe a solid single line, those in the know calling an OSI. This implies that the ticket still stays active. And there should be an asterisk or somesuch, with footnote detailing Time Limits apply. In fact, for stations with heavy rail connections, these are shown as Internal which is strictly speaking wrong.

Nick K | 06.07.26 - 1:19 p.m. | #

Still no mention that the Waterloo & City Line is closed at weekends

Dstock7080 | 06.07.26 - 2:01 p.m. | #

Is that the sound of Harry Beck turning in his grave...?

dg writes: no

Labourer | 06.07.26 - 2:16 p.m. | #

Shortlands rail station is now step-free from street to platform. Conversion apparently finished in late April 2025, but this wasn't indicated on the previous pocket map yet.

Joachim | 06.07.26 - 8:45 p.m. | #

Vauxhall also has a boat

dg writes: updated, thanks

Marek | 06.07.26 - 10:42 p.m. | #

Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish has a map-ish look to it

Justin | Homepage | 07.07.26 - 3:28 a.m. | #

If they really do only update the maps once a year this means the much anticipated £15M Northolt step free build (due to 'go live' in the next month or so, will be invisible to anyone not familiar with the area, meaning the Central line west of Bond Street still looks like an step free no go nightmare (apart from Ealing Broadway).

Nigel Savill | 07.07.26 - 8:02 a.m. | #

Change 2. Bob, the poster replacement probably arrives before the box of new tube maps.

mclm | 07.07.26 - 8:06 a.m. | #

Maps dated April 2026 still shown on the TfL website.

Kim | 07.07.26 - 12:32 p.m. | #

…because nothing‘’s changed on the (digital) tube map since April.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.07.26 - 1:04 p.m. | #

Good spot! Though Mike Roberts says otherwise.

Kim | 07.07.26 - 2:43 p.m. | #

'Under a 10 minute walk' has changed to 'less than 10 minutes [sic] walk', which should of course be "minutes'" or "minutes's"

plymothian | 10.07.26 - 7:08 p.m. | #

It definitely shouldn't be minutes's.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.07.26 - 7:36 p.m. | #











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