Building maps
I love the London Underground. I love LEGO. So I was rather pleased to see that some enterprising people had combined the two to make five LEGO Underground maps to celebrate the 150 year anniversary of the tube system. The maps will be displayed for a few months before they’re moved to the London Transport museum.
They represented maps from 1927, Harry Beck’s original Underground diagram from 1933, 1968, the present day and a view to the future in 2020. I went about seeing them all.
The 1927 map was at South Kensington station.
Mr. Beck’s map was at Piccadilly Circus: check out the old station names and the forthcoming extension!
The 1968 map was placed on display at Green Park station.
While Stratford station had the map from the present day.
Finally, King’s Cross St. Pancras station had the future map, with Crossrail and the Northern Line extension previewed.
Whenever I saw one, a small crowd would gather, take photos or just marvel at the time it took to produce such a map. Each map was made up of more than 1000 bricks and took four days to build. They were solo efforts, by Duncan Titmarsh, the UK’s only certified LEGO professional. Well done, sir…
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