Unlike other major subway systems such as New York or Paris, the London Underground is largely tunneled rather than laid in a covered trench. Station interchanges require complex underground networks of tunnels such as these cutaway diagrams at Piccadilly Circus.
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Piccadilly Circus tube station by Renzo Picasso, 1929. Pedants may note that the traffic flow has been reversed, as it would be in Italy. © Archivio Renzo Picasso, Genoa. |
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1930, D MacPherson's cluttered cutaway of Piccadilly Circus underground station to explain the complexity of works to the excited public. © London Transport Museum Collection |
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1989, London Transport Museum commissioned Gavin Dunn to draw this updated modern 3D cutaway of Piccadilly Circus station. © London Transport Museum Collection. |
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Cutaway of London's Charing Cross railway, underground and trams. Popular Science Magazine 1921. |
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Bond Street Station, 1970s. Showing reconstruction for the Jubilee Line. It also references the Fleet Line as the Jubilee was known during the planning phase. © London Transport Museum Collection. |
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Camden Town. © Archivio Renzo Picasso, Genoa. |
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Camden Town by L Ashwell Wood for the Eagle comic. © Eagle, Dan Dare Corporation. |
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1950, a cutaway of 1938 stock on London Underground in the Eagle comic - courtesy of Ian Visits. © Eagle, Dan Dare Corporation. |
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Mail Rail 1926 cutaway of the entire route. © Royal Mail Group Ltd, courtesy of the Postal Museum. |
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TV Centre cutaway drawing. © The Architect & Building News, 1958. |
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