The Tube, where it actually runs

A geographic London Underground map

The famous Tube map is a diagram, brilliant for planning a journey, but it stretches the centre and squashes the suburbs, so it tells you almost nothing about where the lines really go. This is the opposite: the Underground drawn in its true geography, in the official line colours, on top of real streets and the rest of the railway network.

The London Underground in its official line colours over central London, on real geography
The Tube in its official line colours, on real central-London geography

Real distances, real shapes

Switch on the London Underground layer and every line appears where it physically runs, so you can finally see how close two stations on different lines really are, where the lines run side by side, and just how far out into the suburbs the Metropolitan and Central lines reach. Every Underground station can be shown too.

The official line colours

Each line is drawn in its proper colour: Central red, Victoria light blue, Piccadilly dark blue, District green, and the rest, so the network reads at a glance. Hover or tap a line to confirm which one it is.

How it's built

The Underground is mapped in OpenStreetMap as route relations, which is how we colour each section by its line. It sits as its own switchable layer on top of the full national network, so you can see the Tube in the context of the mainline railways, not in isolation.

Going deeper

The same map carries the whole of Britain's railways, including disused lines, closed stations and heritage railways, so you can explore well beyond the capital.