Laura Reynolds

A First Look At The Tube Map, With Added Crossrail

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With just a year to go until Crossrail officially launches, TfL has unveiled what the tube map is expected to look like once it's up and running.

Photo: Geoff Marshall

It's currently only a draft version of the map, meaning the published one may vary slightly, but shows how the network will appear, come December 2018, when Crossrail is scheduled to be running between Paddington and Abbey Wood, Liverpool Street to Shenfield, and Paddington Main Line to Heathrow Terminal 4.

No doubt a new map will be released in December 2019 when Crossrail services begin running between Reading and Heathrow in the west through the central tunnels to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. At this point, will the tube map we know and love reach as far as Reading?