Mapping the Tube 1863-2023: Treasures of the Tube Map

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  • @nathandoubleyou
    @nathandoubleyou 2 дні тому +426

    You should have included a clip from that Map Men episode about Harry Beck! That UA-camr who portrayed him did a good job! 😬😆

    • @KasabianFan44
      @KasabianFan44 2 дні тому +76

      Boooo fake fan, that was clearly part of the Unfinished London series!

    • @TheKittyfantastic
      @TheKittyfantastic 2 дні тому +6

      *knowing nod*

    • @DarrylAdams
      @DarrylAdams 2 дні тому +32

      Unless you agree with Mark that it should have been a Map Men episode.

    • @prathamgautam6673
      @prathamgautam6673 2 дні тому +5

      ​​@@KasabianFan44but it could have been the episode of map men

    • @paulhaynes8045
      @paulhaynes8045 2 дні тому +10

      All is clear about Beck's problems, once you clock his glasses!

  • @whoami4597
    @whoami4597 2 дні тому +136

    "You are the ungrateful corporation to my lifetime of loyal service."

  • @tentringer4065
    @tentringer4065 2 дні тому +220

    Map House, Map House, Map, Map, Map House, House

    • @itskdog
      @itskdog 2 дні тому +8

      Technically it was part of Unfinished London, but good gag still.

    • @isoroxuk
      @isoroxuk День тому

      Last time should only be there twice!

    • @tentringer4065
      @tentringer4065 День тому

      @@isoroxuk fixed it. Thanks.

  • @KasabianFan44
    @KasabianFan44 2 дні тому +125

    Throughout the first 3 minutes of the video I was like “I wonder if he’s seen Jay Foreman’s video on this topic”…
    Then my dumb self remembered that Jago literally played the main character in that video lol

    • @user-wm3hu7lo1g
      @user-wm3hu7lo1g 2 дні тому +4

      So I'd wager a "yes" on that question... but there are plenty of actors that profess they never watch their movies, so never say never (except I guess now)

  • @Gerry0866
    @Gerry0866 2 дні тому +36

    A few years ago, my wife was clearing out the house of her late aunt in Cork. It was a treasure trove of random stuff, accumulated over many years, the majority of it destined for charity shops.
    One of the things she found was a linen tea-towel, obviously purchased as a souvenir of a trip to London several decades earlier. It was a Tube map, and thankfully it had never been used for the purpose intended. That didn’t go in the charity shop bag, but instead came home to me, a former resident of London and a bona fide Tube nerd.
    I looked up the various editions and it turned out to be a 1958 map. I had it mounted and framed and it now occupies pride of place here in my house in Co Laois, Ireland.

  • @tantaf123
    @tantaf123 2 дні тому +55

    There is nothing I like more than watching a brand new jago video on a sunday afternoon :)

    • @tolby53
      @tolby53 2 дні тому +3

      To be followed by Beard meets food later in the day.

    • @alanclarke4646
      @alanclarke4646 2 дні тому +2

      Informative and entertaining as usual, Jago. 😊

    • @oc2phish07
      @oc2phish07 2 дні тому

      Absolutely

    • @garethaethwy
      @garethaethwy 2 дні тому +1

      Sunday evenings wouldn't be Sunday evenings without a Jago and Autoshenanigans video.
      I demand a colab. With Ringway Manchester too.

    • @alanclarke4646
      @alanclarke4646 2 дні тому

      @@garethaethwy I want a Collab between Jago and Geoff Marshall

  • @fatcontrole1
    @fatcontrole1 2 дні тому +23

    Would be cool if there was a play/video where you could play the part of Harry Beck yourself
    🤔

  • @kevinmottram9491
    @kevinmottram9491 2 дні тому +47

    Fred Stingemore? If ever anyone was born to be a Chancellor of the Exchequer then it was him.

  • @lordmuntague
    @lordmuntague 2 дні тому +37

    Your voice is your living Jago, skip a few vids if you need to but stay safe!
    ;o|

  • @andywarne963
    @andywarne963 2 дні тому +32

    Probably the most impressive Beck-derived map is the Tokyo "Railways covered by Pasmo/Suica" [contactless cards] map which crams over 800 stations on one map. I am lucky enough to have one of the paper versions which I dont believe they provide any longer.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 дні тому +5

      That's interesting, they use the "every station is a white dot, and interchanges have parallel lines with pill-shapes connecting them" method like New York City chose to. (As much as I like the station "ticks" with connecting lines overlapping into a connector circle, I do think the New York method scales better.)

    • @bobstacey9311
      @bobstacey9311 День тому +2

      I worked in greater Tokyo back in 2019 and the network was very easy to travel on, although the shear quantity of commuters can get overwelming initially

  • @benshelton5230
    @benshelton5230 2 дні тому +17

    The Map House is at 54 Beauchamp Place, SW3 1 NY if you’re looking for it on a map 😃

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev 2 дні тому +13

    9:38Simplicity, visual clarity, and ease of use. A good summary there of Jago Hazzard videos. 😌

  • @highpath4776
    @highpath4776 2 дні тому +23

    Messing with Diagonals - Beck should have lived at Mornington Crescent I believe reverse diagonal moves are needed to get home more often than not

    • @eddisstreet
      @eddisstreet 2 дні тому +4

      Not if you're in nap

    • @drtrustrum
      @drtrustrum 2 дні тому +2

      @@eddisstreet I believe you mean in Nid? Which he isn't, because it was not filmed on a Tuesday. Widdershins are allowed.

    • @eddisstreet
      @eddisstreet День тому

      @@drtrustrum I don't know what I meant, I was paying attention to myself

  • @oc2phish07
    @oc2phish07 2 дні тому +2

    Fantastic. Thanks Jago. Last Friday I visited the London Transport Museum Depot so tomorrow I will pop over to The Map House. Thanks as always for not only excellent videos, but also for ideas about places to go and things to see.

  • @lexxietheourplefolf
    @lexxietheourplefolf 2 дні тому +12

    7:32 "You are the ungrateful corporation to my to lifetime of loyal service" 😢

  • @proanimali
    @proanimali День тому +2

    Your voice sounded fine, even if you didn't think so. A lovely video with so many interesting details, of most I was aware of, due to your (and Jay Foreman's) intelligent videos in the past.

  • @frogandspanner
    @frogandspanner 2 дні тому +14

    1:03 M O R N I N G T O N C R E S C E N T ! ! ! !

    • @TheOoblick
      @TheOoblick 2 дні тому +2

      Another letter from Mrs Trellis from North Wales.

  • @frglee
    @frglee 2 дні тому +6

    I was fascinated with the tube map from the first time I saw it in the mid 1960s in a diary I got one xmas. Over the years I have watched its slow evolution - new lines added, old lines removed. I've watched it fight with overcomplexity when added to all the London rail network. And still fighting the battle to remain simple and clear with the addition of the Overground lines,Thameslink and the Elizabeth Line. But, indeed, a masterpiece of transport map design. Three cheers for Harry Beck! 🥳

  • @runoflife87
    @runoflife87 2 дні тому +12

    Aah, such a nice addition to "Map Men" videos.

  • @SmudgeThomas
    @SmudgeThomas 2 дні тому +2

    Spotting Jago at a tube thing should definitely be some kind of achievement unlocked for tube nerds.

  • @superlynx98
    @superlynx98 2 дні тому +7

    I could never forget the Watford branch! .... only because i live on it

  • @TazerXI
    @TazerXI 2 дні тому +7

    I wondered if there was a place with all the tube maps. I want somewhere to see the evolution of them over time
    Also it's very apt you talking about Beck considering your role on Jay Forman's channel

    • @ianthomson9363
      @ianthomson9363 2 дні тому +3

      The London Transport Museum's Acton Depot has many Tube maps from before and after Mr. Beck's. It's only open occasionally, but is well worth a visit.

    • @TazerXI
      @TazerXI 2 дні тому +2

      @@ianthomson9363 I know I should
      But I want a website that can show them side by side over the years to compare changes. I need to know when they started having a competition for worst connector blob. Currently the Paddington and Moorgate/Liverpool Street are up there.

    • @jerribee1
      @jerribee1 2 дні тому

      ​@@TazerXI
      There is a book about the history of the London Underground Map, by Caroline Roope. I have no idea how good it is though.

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. 2 дні тому +9

    Hope your voice gets better!
    Also, yay maps of the Underground! (Also hey Harry Beck)

  • @isashax
    @isashax 2 дні тому +4

    I wish I could go to see this, but I won't be in London while it's open. Pity! Looks amazing! Thanks for showing it to us!

  • @lefthandedspanner
    @lefthandedspanner 2 дні тому +5

    for what it's worth, one of the pubs in Pontefract (the Liquorice Bush, if memory serves) used to have a tube-style map of the pubs in town, which they called the Pontefract Overground

    • @mikewilliamson7246
      @mikewilliamson7246 2 дні тому

      A short while ago there was a similar map available round where I live (Lancaster - Northern England for you foreign types !) which included all the North Lancashire pubs, connected I think by lines representing the best routes for ideal pub crawls.

  • @DanBen07
    @DanBen07 2 дні тому +9

    Love transport maps!

  • @EElgar1857
    @EElgar1857 2 дні тому +6

    I remember that 1972 NYC Subway map, and thought it was beautiful, and quite easy to read. But I guess I was one of the few who appreciated it.

    • @Tokkemon
      @Tokkemon 2 дні тому +2

      It's making a comeback. NYC is slowly replacing the old one with a new version inspired by the Vignelli map.

    • @geoffreypiltz271
      @geoffreypiltz271 2 дні тому

      @@Tokkemon Yay!

  • @nickbarber2080
    @nickbarber2080 2 дні тому +7

    I knew an old chap...a graphic designer...who had worked under Beck in the post-war period.
    He said that only his very closest friends got to call him Harry...to the world in general it was Henry or Mr.Beck.

  • @graham5670
    @graham5670 2 дні тому +1

    Fascinating video - most enjoyable. Ken Garland's excellent book was published in 1994 but can still be found online or at second-hand bookshops

  • @eattherich9215
    @eattherich9215 2 дні тому +3

    I have a print of Harry Beck's map waiting to be framed along with other transit maps from my trips abroad. I will make a point to catch the exibition and thank you for the alert, Jago.

  • @pauljmccluskey5532
    @pauljmccluskey5532 2 дні тому +9

    Hi Jago: whatever anyone says about the London Underground map, it is extremely iconic and I’m sure that, when I next pop down to London, this exhibition will be right down my street… literally. I’ve even downloaded the London font to my computer lol 😜

  • @michaelb6269
    @michaelb6269 7 годин тому

    Perfect timing for my visit to London the coming weekend.
    Thank you!

  • @Saint_Dan132
    @Saint_Dan132 2 дні тому +6

    i do love a sunday, thanks mate xx

  • @seanbonella
    @seanbonella 2 дні тому +4

    Beck & JH, two legends

  • @highpath4776
    @highpath4776 2 дні тому +5

    Deptford Road station looks like it needs a talk about , it is in an interesting area and lines out

  • @stevenflebbe
    @stevenflebbe 2 дні тому +4

    As with the Imperial Airway map, there is a Tube-style map of the navigable waterways of England and Wales, showing the canal system. It was created by the UA-camr Minimal List.

  • @IamTheHolypumpkin
    @IamTheHolypumpkin 2 дні тому +3

    Get better soon Jago.

  • @cujimmy1366
    @cujimmy1366 2 дні тому +2

    The beauty of simplicity.

  • @Sasha-1313
    @Sasha-1313 2 дні тому +1

    Thank you, Jago; I might have missed this exhibition entirely if not for your video, as I have an allergy to being in Knightsbridge.

  • @ianthomson9363
    @ianthomson9363 2 дні тому +2

    I shall have to pop in to see this.

  • @stevewoodard527
    @stevewoodard527 2 дні тому +1

    I enjoy your videos generally, but this one was particularly interesting -- well done!

  • @MLampner
    @MLampner 2 дні тому +1

    Would that I could see this but a trip in November is impossible. Thanks Jago for letting those of us on a foreign shore at least get some sense of it.

  • @georgeprior-vinylshowtell4934
    @georgeprior-vinylshowtell4934 2 дні тому +1

    As luck would have it, I'm in London a couple of days before this exhibition ends, will more than likely pay it a visit. Thanks for recommending, nice one!! 🙂

  • @thefareplayer2254
    @thefareplayer2254 2 дні тому +6

    I was concerned about your voice since hearing the ad voiceovers in your previous video. I hope you feel better soon, Jago!

  • @pulaski1
    @pulaski1 2 дні тому +4

    9:27 How can you show Maxwell Roberts' reimagined map without pointing out that incorporates the Tube roundel into the design?

  • @joermnyc
    @joermnyc 2 дні тому +1

    The MTA has been testing an updated take on the Vignelli subway map alongside a geographically accurate map that includes Select Bus Service routes (our take on Bus Rapid Transit) for about 5 years now, no word on when or if they'll actually replace the current maps with one of these or not.

  • @russellnixon9981
    @russellnixon9981 День тому

    Thankyou for guiding us though this interesting topic.

  • @barbaraprest783
    @barbaraprest783 2 дні тому +1

    Wonderful - tha k you 🎉🎉🎉

  • @tonys1636
    @tonys1636 2 дні тому +1

    There is a pre Beck geographical tube map in the tiling in the tube entrance /exit to Victoria Station, along with an old Brighton and South Coast Railway map, now both covered by cladding but were exposed during '70's renovation for a few months. Hopefully may be exposed in the future but at least have been preserved.

  • @larryp6671
    @larryp6671 2 дні тому +1

    This was really exciting. I guess I have retreated into unescapable nerd-dom.

  • @lawrencelewis2592
    @lawrencelewis2592 2 дні тому +2

    I'll be in London this coming Friday- I am going to the Map House without a doubt!

    • @TestGearJunkie.
      @TestGearJunkie. День тому

      Sadly, I'm not going to be able to make it from up here in the frozen north of Scotland in time, but have fun.

  • @KevinTheCaravanner
    @KevinTheCaravanner День тому +1

    I recently visited the Lake District where I came across a map of the mountain footpaths in Harry Back Tube-style. It made any mountain climb look rather simpler than it was. Fortunately there was a bus replacement service on some routes.

  • @mikebirkett010
    @mikebirkett010 2 дні тому +1

    There is no denying that Harry Beck was a genius (when it comes to underground maps). Portraying the complex as simple takes brains.

  • @thewildbunchASD
    @thewildbunchASD 2 дні тому +1

    Was expecting a cameo of the cameo you did wih the the other train nerd for unfinished London!

  • @martinross5521
    @martinross5521 День тому

    Thank you for this exhibition visit. Fascinating! Here in Devon we have Mr Beck style framed diagrams for the principal routes and places on Dartmoor - a very unusual way to portray ‘the last wilderness’!

  • @kenmorris100
    @kenmorris100 4 години тому

    Thanks Jago for highlighting this exhibition which unfortunately I won't be down in London again (from Manchester) before it closes. As a long time collector of "Underground" maps dating back to the 1890s it is fascinating how they show the growth of the network with rival maps by the Metropolitan and the Underground Group. The "pocket" maps produced by Stingemore were the first attempt to provide an easy to carry and read map of the system prior to Beck and I feel are not given the credit they deserve. Today's Map is totally overloaded even including the Croydon tram system. I wonder what Mr Beck would make of it today?

  • @bob_the_bomb4508
    @bob_the_bomb4508 2 дні тому +1

    When I was living in Cambodia there was an Australian (?) artist who had made a map of Cambodia in the style of Harry Beck’s map.

  • @Flymochairman1
    @Flymochairman1 День тому

    A fun episode to watch. I hope you're keeping better as you sound like you've got this years 'Cold and Flu Season' edition. A fascinating look at Cartography indeed. Thanks for making the effort as it's always appreciated and I hope the Exhibition is well attended. Cheers!

  • @nicomonkeyboy
    @nicomonkeyboy 2 дні тому +1

    Have you been to Croydon Airport? They have the Imperial Airways Beck map up - it's wonderful.

  • @Andrewjg_89
    @Andrewjg_89 День тому

    I love tube maps because they got so much character in them and how they were designed for passengers that use the London Underground. And others including the DLR, London Overground, Elizabeth Line, Tramlink and the cable car that are all now on the tube map. And how the tube map has evolved every decade.

  • @dondesmond7969
    @dondesmond7969 2 дні тому

    Thank Jago and Harry.
    We would be lost without both of you.

  • @Blade_Daddy
    @Blade_Daddy День тому

    Thank you, Jago!

  • @driver288
    @driver288 2 дні тому +1

    I think most transit systems in the world use some variant based on Beck’s map. The Stockholm Metro map looks very similar with straightened routes.

  • @buffplums
    @buffplums День тому

    Fantastic video Jago

  • @alextr3a640
    @alextr3a640 2 дні тому

    Hi Jago, thanks ! Lovely video about a great design! Hope they included a photo of you being Beck..👍🏻

  • @neilmcfarlane5644
    @neilmcfarlane5644 2 дні тому

    Loved it, Jago.

  • @davebutterworth7414
    @davebutterworth7414 2 дні тому

    Great video Jago !
    Fabulous ❤👍

  • @nirgunapa56
    @nirgunapa56 2 дні тому +6

    So the great Harry Beck was, effectively, on a zero hours contract though that term wasn't coined until the early 21st century.

  • @christtrockministeries5542
    @christtrockministeries5542 День тому

    Bravo.

  • @Wildcard71
    @Wildcard71 2 дні тому +1

    I am redrawing a current map aiming it not to look as busy as the official one.
    Thames not shown
    Inner circle complete
    Ends of the map now: Earl's Court, Notting Hill Gate, Royal Oak, Queen's Park, Swiss Cottage, Hampstead, Tufnell Park, Highbury & Islington, Liverpool Street, Algate East, London Bridge, Waterloo and Pimlico.

  • @uktrains5679
    @uktrains5679 2 дні тому

    Fascinating video Jago, thank you.

  • @neilmcfarlane5644
    @neilmcfarlane5644 2 години тому

    Went to the Map House today on your recommendation and it was great, really interesting and informative. Even managed to get my gf (broadly, slightly) interested. Thanks Jago, NfM

  • @paulhaynes8045
    @paulhaynes8045 2 дні тому +1

    Wow - from map desert to map cornucopia!

  • @scottydude456
    @scottydude456 2 дні тому

    In New York, the MTA now uses a Vignelli-inspired, angular map for all service announcements, and they even use it for their online live subway tracker map. The map is is also at some stations, mostly on digital signage, but the old map is still used as well

  • @highpath4776
    @highpath4776 2 дні тому +4

    Interesting Underground HQ Number Victoria 6800 sounds like a Glenn Miller tune (and was 222 6800 ever used in further publicity come LPTB?

    • @AndreiTupolev
      @AndreiTupolev 2 дні тому +3

      Underground HQ sounds like a secret military bunker, or villain's lair

    • @phaasch
      @phaasch 2 дні тому +1

      "Mr Bond Street. I've been expecting you."​@@AndreiTupolev

  • @roderickmain9697
    @roderickmain9697 2 дні тому +2

    That will be/would be/must be on my todo list next time I'm in London for any length of time.
    Would colouring the Victoria line in a shade of lilac be possible or would it be confusing on todays map?
    One of the things I like about the map is its "easy to read" and "easy to take in and understand". Its never bothered me that its not a good representation of where things are above ground. I'm simply traversing a network from whatever (A) I'm starting from to whatever (B) I want to get to. Harry Beck's map just works. I do wonder if, to retain clarity, a larger map will be on the cards at some point. With a long enough corridor you could cover Reading to Shenfield with maybe slightly larger fonts at top and bottom so if the bottom the map is near your foot or the top is somewhere above your head you can still read the names.

    • @caw25sha
      @caw25sha 2 дні тому

      It's not just the map but the branding on signs etc. so a recolourisation (!) wouldn't be feasible.
      Also I think people almost subconsciously follow colours so as you said it would be confusing.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 дні тому +1

      It would probably clash with the Elizabeth line and the Hammersmith and City line encircling that part of the visible spectrum now, but tourists do mix-up Victoria and Piccadilly on maps sometimes (especially in poorer lighting) so I think it was sensible of him to propose lilac back then.

  • @apolloc.vermouth5672
    @apolloc.vermouth5672 2 дні тому +1

    4:24 I often try to imagine how Willesden Junction would look as a brand new station. But I always fail.

  • @davidellis1355
    @davidellis1355 2 дні тому +2

    When I picture Harry Beck, I will always picture Jago

  • @paulhaynes8045
    @paulhaynes8045 2 дні тому +1

    I think a video about the complexities of the modern day underground map, and possible solutions, would be a good idea. (I think you've done something like this before, but not in the depth it deserves?) We have reached (passed?) Peak Map, and now have a seemingly impossible problem - how to we get an increasingly complicated system on a clear, easy to use, map.
    Do we leave stuff out - is the so-called 'Overground' really that important on an Underground map - does a 'peripheral' system like the Croydon trams even need to be on a London map - is the Thameslink system London or regional, etc, etc? Or, do we try to come up with a clear map of the entire spaghetti - if so, how? And how do we future-proof it?
    Or, perhaps (my personal choice), should we offer the traveler several maps - a central 'Tube' map as the main Underground map, with separate maps for each system (Underground, Overground [Wobbling free], Docklands, Tram, Thameslink, etc), with combined maps being available and displayed at least once at each station/location, but with the simpler maps being the one most often displayed within each system (much as they used to do)? Each version could also be a 'standard' map, printed lightly, (but still usable), with the local system highlighted in bolder type/colour?
    Having traveled (and struggled) on the New York subway, with their utterly appalling maps, we simply cannot end up with something as confusing as that. And, yes, New Yorkers, I do appreciate just how complicated the actual Subway itself is! (But I still think you could do a lot better.)
    Of course, some people will argue that the day of the map is numbered - after all, who uses a map to drive these days? (I do, for one!). But, is standing on an Underground platform in the middle of the busy period, trying to work out how to get from A to B on your phone, really going to be easier than just looking at the poster on the wall or in the carriage? (Spoiler alert - NO!)

    • @skyblazeeterno
      @skyblazeeterno День тому +1

      I suspect the simple answer is you do NOT have a paper map for it. I'm guessing an app version where you see only what you want to see is the future. Possibly stuff like city mapper will make it redundant. IMO London definitely needs a zone 1 only map
      I'd prefer tfl improve their signage IN the stations

  • @tonywise198
    @tonywise198 2 дні тому +1

    That would be worth a trip up to "town" for.

  • @peterdawson2645
    @peterdawson2645 17 годин тому

    This cheered me up after nearly two two weeks fighting off a pesky respiratory virus. Also made me realise one or two of my early maps are worth rather more than the few quid I'd assumed! One interesting point. The Map House's own excellent site on the exhibition lists the 1969 Garbutt map as the first showing the Victoria Line. It wasn't. I have a 1968 map showing the Vic open from Walthamstow. to Warren Street, and Warren St to Victoria opening Spring 1969. I also have 1971 maps on which I have neatly drawn in the Brixton extension, meaning they are now worthless except as examples of teenage overenthusiasm! Sadly it's unlikely I shall make it up before the end of November to see the exhibition.

  • @rollinwithunclepete824
    @rollinwithunclepete824 2 дні тому

    a most interesting video!

  • @highpath4776
    @highpath4776 2 дні тому +1

    There is an image on the internet ( LT Museum? ) of Bakerloo Line (I think Southbound Platform) at Waterloo, with interchange lightbox pointing to WAY OUT and to Southern Railway and "Clapham and Morden" LINE (use of Southern Railway is post grouping ) but is Clapham and Morden pre LPTB ? (the Waterloo roundel is a name bar on a red solid circle if that helps ) It also shows a round tubular waste paper bin ( so an Early Geoff Marshall would not like to see that blowing in the wind ), of the style I remember as half round smaller ones in Crown Post Offices

    • @Tevildo
      @Tevildo 2 дні тому

      It's not possible to say based on this information, unfortunately. Between 1926 and 1937 the line was still officially the "City & South London Railway", and unofficially called the "Morden-Edgware Line" - the LPTB took it over from UERL in 1933, right in the middle of this period.

  • @gregessex1851
    @gregessex1851 2 дні тому

    8:33 Sydney used the roundels for station names for many decades. You can still see them on heritage stations such as St James and Museum.

  • @dougmorris2134
    @dougmorris2134 2 дні тому

    Hello Jago, you mentioned that the central area being expanded as though viewed by a convex lens reminded me of a much prized photo/screen shot of ‘Harry Beck’ wearing a pair of glasses with some very interesting lenses. Many years ago now, I wrote the clues relating to various towns and cities in the British Isles for my treasure hunt. One of the clues were “you will never get lost if you followed the coloured lines of Mr Harry Beck.”
    The Island Line on the Isle of Wight have their version of the Harry Beck map.
    Management, yes love to inflict their influence of systems and it was my system.
    “I want to speak to you about your work system on Monday” my reply “If it works, don’t fix it.” Monday morning, I asked now what did you want to talk to me about?”
    (New) Management: “ I’ve changed my mind.”
    Me: “Ok.” And so my system lasted, except for management being CCed in until I retired.
    I would like to see the ‘Harry Beck’ play, it’s mentioned in the Friends of LTM Quarterly.
    Best wishes from Oxfordshire.

  • @jonasrosengren9093
    @jonasrosengren9093 2 дні тому

    Thanks

  • @paulmcgeown7022
    @paulmcgeown7022 2 дні тому

    Absolutely brilliant … And yes, time for someone to repost your Thespian MapMan epic …

  • @adrianwatson9277
    @adrianwatson9277 2 дні тому

    Melbourne follwed backs map as well thanks learnt a lot

  • @ROCKINGMAN
    @ROCKINGMAN День тому

    Beck's diagram of lines, I think, was first produced in 1931. A version of the map was in black & white, where printing was limited, lines were shown with patterned lines. I used to collect the first London Connections maps from the library, in 1973, as well as bus maps and BR maps. Still have them. Sydney Australia, produced a copy of the map in 1939 for their underground.

  • @Gizepi
    @Gizepi 2 дні тому

    Well done Jago.

  • @MartinBrenner
    @MartinBrenner День тому

    Won't be able to travel to London to see the exhibition, thanks for showing us! That's pretty cool stuff! (Edit: They actually have the maps on their website, but the real gem is Jago giving the tour)

  • @highpath4776
    @highpath4776 2 дні тому +3

    sneak preview, as Harry Beck not a starring role?

  • @rupep2424
    @rupep2424 2 дні тому

    The 'Spider Web' map's fab for Halloween! Tho poss centre on King's Cross (with trains to over half the network)

  • @SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus
    @SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus День тому

    I have an original Beck map from the first print run, i picked it up at a collectors fair a few years back for only a tenner! On the front it appears to have London Passenger Transport Board ink stamped on rather than printed, i assume the map was printed before the creation of London Transport......

  • @phaasch
    @phaasch 2 дні тому +1

    5:26 "Tubeopoly- a game for all the family"

    • @skyblazeeterno
      @skyblazeeterno День тому

      There was a tube version of the board game Monopoly... I think you may still be able to get it from the Transport Museum

  • @highpath4776
    @highpath4776 2 дні тому +2

    I would (a) like to see vid on LMS and LNER diagrams (inc regions in BR days) and (b) is there a London Underground Monopoly set ?

  • @AtomcsiKK
    @AtomcsiKK 2 дні тому

    Harry Beck is the reason I've found your channel.

  • @teecefamilykent
    @teecefamilykent 2 дні тому +1

    Iirc pre London electric railways: each railways company had its own railways highlighted and others as 'interchange stations' lol lol.

  • @rodlayne8527
    @rodlayne8527 2 дні тому +2

    Hi Jago,
    Is it possible that we can have your top five, or ten favourite, or least favourite stations.

  • @michaelwatson113
    @michaelwatson113 2 дні тому

    Incredibly, Tokyo uses the Beck style map. And it works.