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Colored lines, flags, or both are used to mark the location and denote the type of underground utility. A special type of spray paint dispenser, which works when the can is upside-down, is used to mark lines, often in a fluorescent color. On flags, a logo often identifies the company or municipal utility which the lines belong to.
The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.
This page contains a list of colours used in previous/next station boxes on UK railway station (and related/similar) articles, believed to be up-to-date as of 26 December 2023. Some of the colours have templates (e.g. {{ NXEA colour }} ) which can be used to implement them.
The names and colours for London Overground lines will be: – The Lioness line between Euston and Watford Junction (yellow). This honours the England women’s football team winning Euro 2022 at ...
The line names were chosen to honour and celebrate ‘different parts of London’s unique local history and culture’, Sadiq Khan said. London Overground rail lines get names and colours to ease ...
The colour for the East London line, when it was part of the London Underground, is Pantone 137. [2] The colour for the Fleet line was Pantone 431: Pantone 432 was too easy to confuse with the Northern line. Full colour specifications, along with a list of sources used for its development, can be found at Template:London transit icons on the ...
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or as the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. [5] Sign on wall beside Marylebone Road beyond station entrance
The railway infrastructure of the London Underground includes 11 lines, with 272 stations.There are two types of line on the London Underground: services that run on the sub-surface network just below the surface using larger trains, and the deep-level tube lines, that are mostly self-contained and use smaller trains.