It’s not just the Tube map (PDF) that can be a bit daunting for anyone coming to London. It’s also a mystery for many how to get from one platform to another whilst changing lines at a particular station.
Some stations are ridiculously easy to interchange at (Earl’s Court, for example), whereas others lead you on a seemingly endless sequence of never-ending corridors, turning left, then right, up, then down, before plonking you on the correct platform (Bank, I’m looking at you).
Whilst seasoned Tube users know the quickest routes within a Tube station from one platform to another, it is very easy to have no real sense of direction, nor an overall picture of how they’re all linked.
This is why I like diagrams such as this one (found via London Reconnections), because you can really see just how compact even the biggest interchange stations are, and start to piece together the station’s layout.
Yes, I’m a Tube geek.
