Friday, November 08, 2024
It's exactly 11 months since London last had a new tube map.
And I wondered how unusual that is.
Cue a very niche list.
Intervals between tube maps in reverse chronological order
11 months
Dec 2023 A Little Slice of Paradise ← Brent Cross West
7 months
May 2023 Come Out, Come Out
6 months
Nov 2022 Routes/Roots ← Bond Street
6 months
May 2022 Twist Out ← Crossrail
4 months
Jan 2022 What I Hear I Keep ← Northern line closure
4 months
Sep 2021 sit alongside and feel me breathe ← Battersea Power Station
9 months
Dec 2020 helter skelter ← Thameslink
7 months
May 2020 Fantasias
5 months
Dec 2019 Morden ← TfL Rail to Reading/river piers
7 months
May 2019 In Grand Ma's dream
5 months
Dec 2018 The Bower of Bliss ← walking connections
7 months
May 2018 Game of Forms ← TfL Rail
4 months
Jan 2018 Untitled
8 months
May 2017 Out Next Stop
5 months
Dec 2016 Metropolitan Diamonds
6 months
Jun 2016 Tunnel vision ← Trams
5 months
Jan 2016 Untitled
8 months
May 2015 Design for a Grand Pendulum ← Overground (Liv St)
5 months
Dec 2014 Ink On Paper
7 months
May 2014 The Hole of London
5 months
Dec 2013 All Time Would be Perpetual
7 months
May 2013 London: the world
5 months
Dec 2012 Petrobras [Rio]
6 months
Jun 2012 The Central line ← Olympics
5 months
Jan 2012 Polka Dots Festival
Dec 2011 Polka Dots Festival ← Dangleway
4 months
Aug 2011 In the Palm of your hand ← white wheelchair blobs
4 months
Apr 2011 Good times
Mar 2011 Good times
5 months
Oct 2010 Untitled (Tube map)
Jul 2010 Untitled (Tube map)
May 2010 Untitled (Tube map)
5 months
Dec 2009 Earth ← Thames reappears
Sep 2009 Earth ← Thames disappears
6 months
Mar 2009 Troubadour carrying a cytiole ← DLR Woolwich Arsenal
2 months
Jan 2009 Fragment of a Magic Carpet
Oct 2008 Fragment of a Magic Carpet ← Wood Lane
5 months
May 2008 Going Underground
Apr 2008 Going Underground
Mar 2008 Going Underground ← Heathrow T5
2 months
Jan 2008 Underground abstract ← East London line closed
2 months
Nov 2007 Portrait of John Hough ← Overground
Jul 2007 Portrait of John Hough
2 months
May 2007 The day before
Jan 2007 The day before
4 months
Sep 2006 Global Underground map
Jun 2006 Global Underground map ← wheelchair blobs
4 months
Feb 2006 Map of the London Underground
Oct 2005 Map of the London Underground
4 months
Jun 2005 Untitled
3 months
Mar 2005 You are in London
Jan 2005 You are in London
Sep 2004 You are in London ← 1st 'Art on the Underground' cover
8 months
Jan 2004 The Tate Gallery by Tube
Aug 2003 The Tate Gallery by Tube
4 months
Apr 2003 The Magic River Thames
Jan 2003 The Magic River Thames
1 month
Dec 2002 Season's Greetings
2 months
Aug 2002 Notting Hill Carnival
2 months
Jun 2002 Golden Jubilee
4 months
Feb 2002 Chinese New Year ← key moves to side of map
4 months
Oct 2001 Shopping by tube
5 months
May 2001 Gardens by tube ← fare zones
3 months
Feb 2001 District line closure
5 months
Sep 2000 Museums by tube
3 months
Jun 2000 We want to make your journey simpler
Feb 2000 We want to make your journey simpler
3 months
Nov 1999 Stanmore to Stratford ← Jubilee line extension
2 months
Sep 1999 Wormwood Scrubs to Liberty Street
Jun 1999 Wormwood Scrubs to Liberty Street
Apr 1999 Wormwood Scrubs to Liberty Street
Dec 1998 Wormwood Scrubs to Liberty Street ← ✖ Moorgate to Finsbury Park
5 months
Jul 1998 Information line
Feb 1998 Information line
Oct 1997 Information line
2 months
Aug 1997 Helpline
9 months
Nov 1996 Carnet
Jul 1996 Carnet
Apr 1996 Carnet
5 months
Nov 1995 You can't beat the tube
10 months
Jan 1995 You can't beat the tube ← ✖ Aldwych, ✖ Ongar
8 months
May 1994 Penalty fare ← Jubilee extension under construction
5 months
Dec 1993 Wise men take the tube
11 months
Jan 1993 Poems on the Underground
...which I think is the last time there were 11 months between tube maps.
...or read more in my monthly archives
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