THE GS TRAM SITE

LONDON

UNITED KINGDOM

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31 Aug. 1987

The London light rail and underground system on the day of the inauguration of the Dockland Light Railway.

VIDEOS

London DLR video London underground video
Above: YouTubeCA video - DLR, Docklands Light Railway, London Public Transport, Driverless Trains - Length: 36:37 mins. Above: YouTubeCA video - The Tube in 2022 | London Underground Trains - Length: 7:28 mins.

PHOTOS

London DLR London Underground trains

MAPS

CENTRAL LONDON

Central London 1987 urban rail map

SOUTH LONDON

South London 1987 tram and urban rail map

EAST LONDON

East London 1987 urban rail map

ABBREVIATIONS ON THE MAPS

BS Bond Street PC Piccadilly Circus
ER Edgware Road Sd Shoreditch
GP Green Park TCR Tottenham Court Road
LS Leicester Square TG Tower Gateway


I created the above maps by overlaying OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps with my own data. Copyright on the OSM maps is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under a CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence).

Please note that the OSM maps used as templates for these maps correspond to the situation at the time the maps were downloaded and may show features that did not exist at the time the GS Tram Site is supposed to show. In particular, they may show bridges and highways that were built later.

ROUTES

LIGHT RAIL ROUTES (DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY [DLR])

Operator: Dockland Light Railway

  1 Tower Gateway - Shadwell - Canary Wharf - Island Gardens
  2 Stratford - Bow Church - Poplar - Canary Wharf - Island Gardens

Route numbers shown above are for convenience only and were not used by the operator.

UNDERGROUND ROUTES

Operator: London Passenger Transport Board

B Bakerloo Line Elephant & Castle – Waterloo – Charing Cross – Piccadilly Circus – Oxford Circus – Marylebone – Paddington – Queen’s Park - Harlesden – Wembley – Harrow & Wealdstone – Watford Junction
C Circle Line Gloucester Road – Victoria Station – Westminster – Bank – Liverpool Street – Farringdon - King's Cross St Pancras – Euston - Paddington - Notting Hill - Gloucester Road [Circular route, both directions]
Ce Central Line Epping - Loughton - Woodford - Leytonstone - Leyton - Stratford - Mile End - Liverpool Street – Bank – Holborn – Tottenham Court Road – Oxford Circus – Bond Street - Notting Hill – Shepherd's Bush – North Acton - Ealing Broadway
Ce Central Line [Branch]: Ongar – Epping
Ce Central Line [Branch]: Woodford - Chigwell - Hainault - Barkingside - Wanstead - Leytonstone
Ce Central Line [Branch]: North Acton - Greenford - West Ruislip
D District Line [Ealing Broadway – Acton Town] / [Richmond] – Turnham Green – Hammersmith – Earl's Court – Gloucester Road – Victoria Station – Westminster – Aldgate East – Whitechapel – Mile End – West Ham - Barking – Dagenham – Upminster
D District Line [Branch:] Edgware Road – Paddington Station – Notting Hill – High Street Kensington – Earl's Court – Putney Bridge – Wimbledon
D District Line [Branch:] Earl's Court - Kensington (Olympia)
EL East London Line Shoreditch – Whitechapel – Surrey Docks – New Cross Gate / New Cross
HC Hammersmith & City Line Hammersmith – Shepherd's Bush – Paddington Station – Edgware Road – Euston – King's Cross St Pancras – Farringdon – Liverpool Street – Aldgate East - Whitechapel – Mile End – West Ham - Barking
J Jubilee Line Stratford – West Ham – Canning Town – North Greenwich – Canary Wharf – Canada Water – London Bridge – Waterloo – Westminster – Green Park – Bond Street – St John’s Wood –- Finchley Rd. – South Hampstead – Wembley Park – Stanmore
M Metropolitan Line Aldgate - Liverpool Street – Farringdon – King's Cross St Pancras – Euston – Finchley Rd. - South Hampstead – Wembley Park – Harrow – Ruislip – Uxbridge
M Metropolitan Line [Branch:] Harrow – Moor Park – Watford / Chesham / Amersham
N Northern Line Edgware – Hendon – Golders Green – Hampstead – Camden Town – Euston – Tottenham Court Road – Leicester Square – Charing Cross – Waterloo – Kennington – Stockwell – Clapham – Tooting – Morden
N Northern Line [Branch:] High Barnet - Finchley - Highgate - Archway – Kentish Town – Camden Town
N Northern Line [Branch:] Mill Hill East - Finchley
N Northern Line [Branch:] Camden Town – Euston – King's Cross St.Pancras – Angel – Bank – Elephant & Castle – Kennington
P Piccadilly Line Uxbridge – Ruislip – Sudbury – North Ealing – Acton Town – Turnham Green – Hammersmith – Earl's Court – Gloucester Road – Knightsbridge – Green Park - Piccadilly Circus – Leicester Square – Holborn – King's Cross St.Pancras – Finsbury Park – Manor House – Wood Green – Southgate – Cockfosters
P Piccadilly Line [Branch:] Heathrow Airport - Hounslow West – Acton Town
P Piccadilly Line [Branch:] Holborn – Aldwych
V Victoria Line Walthamstow - Tottenham - Seven Sisters - Finsbury Park - Highbury & Islington - King's Cross St.Pancras - Euston - Oxford Circus - Green Park - Victoria Station - Vauxhall - Stockwell - Brixton
W&C Waterloo & City Line Waterloo – Bank

Note: The one- or two-letter route designations are strictly local to this site, and have never been used by the operating companies. Branches of individual lines are listed separately.


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