Photo: Where Are We?
Apparently, you’re at the Cardinal Lemoine Metro station in Paris… just a guess! Source: Ed…../Flickr
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Photo: New York Subway Quilt
With stitching based off a vintage subway map – beautiful! Source: the workroom/Flickr
Photo: Chemins de Fer du Midi
Another entry in the “Gigantic Map on the Wall of a Railway Station” category, this time at the SNCF station in Bordeaux, France. The modern signage in the foreground and on the ticket office looks sadly out of place in the grandeur of this amazing space. Source: henribergius/Flickr
Photo: San Francisco Muni Metro Sign, Church Station
Source: Jean (tarkastad)/Flickr
Photo: Irish Intercity Train In-Car Map
Oooh, pretty LED lights – so futuristic! I like that the orange lights show the “expected route”, as if the train could suddenly leave the tracks and go a completely different direction. Source: Ravenous Pigeon/Flickr
Historical Map: London Metropolitan Railway and Connections, c. 1930
A fantastic old in-car map from London’s old Metropolitan Railway: the world’s first underground railway and the precursor to the modern London Underground. Today, former Metropolitan Railway tracks and stations are used by the London Underground’s Metropolitan, Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, Piccadilly and Jubilee lines. I’m guessing this map is from around 1930 or so, as the Railway’s lines are substantially complete apart from the Stanmore extension out of Wembley Park, which opened in […]
Photo: Loop
Looks like an in-car map from the early 1990s (see the “under construction, 1993” notice at the bottom left for Roosevelt station). Source: Rob Elliott/Flickr
Photos: Montreal Metro Branding Ads
Matt Johnson sends these photos of great ads that use a subway map theme that he saw in the Montreal Metro on a recent trip. The interesting thing here is that these aren’t created by an ad agency riffing off the subway map theme, but are produced by the transit agency (the Société de transport de Montréal or STM) themselves, as informational ads regarding public transport and upcoming popular events. The ads have a nice […]
Photo: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways Tile Map
Another Really Big Map, this time from Manchester Victoria Station in England. Beautiful! Source: robertknight16/Flickr
UPDATE: Portland MAX In-Car Map
Just as I post about the in-car maps on Portland, Oregon’s MAX trains, I notice that TriMet has just released a new version (pardon the bad cell phone photo; I was getting off the train as I snapped it!). The new map has two important changes from the previous one: JELD-WEN Field is correctly named (instead of the old PGE Park – showing exactly why commercial names on transit maps are a Bad Idea), and […]