This section of The Cube can be used to help read The London 1960 Cube:
Each dot is a station. The dots with a white centre are 'surface' stations and those just one colour are underground stations.
On surface stations served by more than one line you can nearly always see every platform. There are some exceptions to this rule (e.g. Baker Street).
Underground stations involve using escalators or lifts to reach the platforms.
Between Bank and Monument there is a moving link, which you can see above.
The grey lines and stations are 'history'. I think of them still as lines and stations that once were, or were planned, during my youth. The grey line between Shoreditch and the two New Cross stations were part of the Metropolitan railway when I was growing up. It was never busy and has had many names over the years. It still exists but in a different form — which is why I have coloured it grey.
I have also given some stations the name I think of them as. Harlesden became Joy in 1960 when we met on a 662 trolleybus. Alperton I think of as Alperton School because that was where I went to secondary school between 1955 and 1959, leaving when aged 15.
Some associations are personal, others family and work. There is even a station I think there should have been, but never was.
Once The Cube is in the public domain I hope to help others create their own personalised London Cube. In the meantime, enjoy what I have shown you to date
The Cube is no substitute for a Transport for London map.
Robert Howard, Cube map designer and maker.
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