International Women's Day Tube map

[AY1975]

According to this story from the Evening Standard, TfL has redrawn the Tube map to mark International Women's Day today (8th March):

TfL launches reimagined Tube map to mark International Women’s Day

TfL has launched a reimagined version of the Tube map featuring the names of trailblazing women to mark International Women’s Day.

www.standard.co.uk

"TfL has launched a reimagined version of the Tube map featuring the names of trailblazing women to mark International Women’s Day.
The map, a partnership between TfL, City of Women and Haymarket Books, sees station names replaced with the names of iconic women from the fields of sports, art, activism, medicine and beyond.

In addition to well-known figures such as Florence Nightingale, Amy Winehouse and Emmeline Pankhurst, the map also invites Londoners to celebrate women from TfL’s history such as Hannah Dadds, the first woman to become a Tube driver, and Jill Viner – the first female London bus driver.

The project was started by Reni Eddo-Lodge, author of best-selling book Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race, and actress Emma Watson, who were inspired by a similar project in New York by Rebecca Solnit."

(Moderators - I know that we are supposed to quote text from news articles in a certain way but am not sure how we are supposed to do it.)

Each station has been named after a famous woman from the past, but it is not clear whether each station has actually been named after a woman associated with that area or it's just completely random - I suspect the latter.

TfL did something similar for Black History Month recently, I believe.

 

[Trackman]

Thanks for this, is there a high res version so I can read the names?
Had a search, unable to find anything.

 

[AlbertBeale]

What's a pleasant surprise is that this is just an up-to-date "tube map"! [Well, "Underground map" for pedants.] So refreshing - given how all the normal public maps have increasing amounts of other stuff confusing it...

 

[Mawkie]

Thanks for this, is there a high res version so I can read the names?
Had a search, unable to find anything.

City of Women London

An interactive version of City of Women London

www.cityofwomenlondon.org

This is the official website.

 

[Dstock7080]

Available for sale from LT Museum:
https://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/city-of-women-tube-map-poster

 

[AlterEgo]

Very good they put a, ahem, pianist, in place of Cockfosters.

 

[duncanp]

Can't see Margaret Thatcher or Her Majesty the Queen on there.

Regardless of what you might think of them, they are both influential women and should have been represented on such a map.

Unless of course the names on the map were chosen for political reasons.

 

[AlterEgo]

Can't see Margaret Thatcher or Her Majesty the Queen on there.

Regardless of what you might think of them, they are both influential women and should have been represented on such a map.

Unless of course the names on the map were chosen for political reasons.

Perhaps, but there are some interesting choices and the stations the women replace often have resonance.

For example, Heathrow Terminal 5 and Heathrow Terminal 4 are female pilots, several women replace their local station where they live/d, Mary Tealby the founder of Battersea Dog's Home is at Battersea, Hammersmith is Elsie Knocker (geddit!). Hope Powell the former England womens' football manager is at Wembley Park, Lucy Thoumaian is at Chigwell where she founded a school for Armenians affected by genocide, Abbie Sweetwine who helped the victims of the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash is at....you get it.

Some of the women really aren't terribly notable but it's interesting to read some of the stories of the women I'd never heard of.

There are a couple of less PC location/woman decisions I've noticed too but I'll let you find them!

 

[duncanp]

The Queen could be at Green Park, given that is the closest station to Buckingham Palace, and Margaret Thatcher could be at Westminster.

Not sure why Diane Abbott is at Harrow on the Hill.

Interesting the way the map depicts the interchange at Baker Street. I haven't seen it done that way before.

 

[Mawkie]

Not sure why Diane Abbott is at Harrow on the Hill.

"She attended Harrow County Grammar School and was the only Black student during her time there."

The map is interactive and explains positioning and achievements of the individuals.

 

[AlbertBeale]

The Queen could be at Green Park, given that is the closest station to Buckingham Palace, and Margaret Thatcher could be at Westminster.

Not sure why Diane Abbott is at Harrow on the Hill.

Interesting the way the map depicts the interchange at Baker Street. I haven't seen it done that way before.

What is it that's new about the Baker Street interchange?

 

[Trackman]

... and Margaret Thatcher could be at Westminster.

I was thinking of East Finchley.

 

[duncanp]

What is it that's new about the Baker Street interchange?

It is the way that the Jubilee and Bakerloo lines are separated from the Met, H&C and Circle lines.

I haven't seen that before.

 

[Lucan]

Can't see Margaret Thatcher or Her Majesty the Queen on there.

Regardless of what you might think of them, they are both influential women

If you have a little patience there will soon be an Elizabeth Line. The Jubilee Line also refers to Her Maj, and there is a Victoria Line. Looks like kings are the under-represented ones here.

As for Mrs T, I can think of a lot of influential people I would not want to see a station named after.

 

[AlbertBeale]

It is the way that the Jubilee and Bakerloo lines are separated from the Met, H&C and Circle lines.

I haven't seen that before.

Ah - I see. Though it feels to me like that was how it used to be years ago - but I don't have any old tube maps immediately to hand to check.

 

[duncanp]

If you have a little patience there will soon be an Elizabeth Line. The Jubilee Line also refers to Her Maj, and there is a Victoria Line. Looks like kings are the under-represented ones here.

As for Mrs T, I can think of a lot of influential people I would not want to see a station named after.

I wasn't suggesting any stations be renamed permanently.

This map was drawn up as a one off to celebrate influential women, and Margaret Thatcher and The Queen have been/are influential, whatever people might think of them.

But then I note that the project was started by someone who wrote a book called "... Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race...", so I think you can guess her political leanings.

 

[Mojo]

It is the way that the Jubilee and Bakerloo lines are separated from the Met, H&C and Circle lines.

I haven't seen that before.

I may be missing something, but that's how it appears on the real Underground map?

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The map is interactive and explains positioning and achievements of the individuals.

Sadly not all of the people have a page detailing who they are and why they're there.

 

[Mawkie]

Sadly not all of the people have a page detailing who they are and why they're there.

How annoying, I thought it was just my sausage fingers letting me down.

 

[Mikey C]

I wasn't suggesting any stations be renamed permanently.

This map was drawn up as a one off to celebrate influential women, and Margaret Thatcher and The Queen have been/are influential, whatever people might think of them.

But then I note that the project was started by someone who wrote a book called "... Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race...", so I think you can guess her political leanings.

Agreed

If you leave out the country's first female Prime Minister, and one of the most important PMs of the 20th Century, then that discredits the whole exercise. Especially when they have included Labour politicians like Mo Mowlam, Barbara Castle and Dianne Abbott. For that matter, where is Nicola Sturgeon?

Plus leaving out the Queen is bizarre, ditto Queen Victoria

 

[High Dyke]

Looks like kings are the under-represented ones here.

I don't recall we've had any female kings before.

I haven't been able to access the map. Is Edith Smith included?

Edith Smith (21 November 1876 – 26 June 1923) was the first female police officer in the United Kingdom with full power of arrest.

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