Stuff And Shit LDN: The Tube & Its Maps

FINALLY, I finished reading Christian Wolmars book about the history of the underground.

I have a deeply ingrained love of the underground.

My earliest regular journey from Belsize Park to Hampstead for primary school.
My sister getting into near hysterics when the tube didn't stop at Hampstead and trundled to the unknown world of Golders Green, where a woman gave us 50p for a phone call.
The lifts at Hampstead, which would cause your stomach to turn at they slowed at the top. And occasionally taking the stairs - Hampstead is the deepest station in London.
Taking the tube to Waterloo to catch the train to Winchester.
Belsize Park to Hendon.
Hendon to Belsize Park.
The strange feeling of emerging from the dark or plunging into the gloom at Golders Green.
Seeing that weird little bit in the tunnel, for fleeting moments, between Hampstead & Golders Green.
Darting onto the tube through the guards door, if the tube was delayed at the station with the doors closed.
Swiss Cottage to Stanmore, sometimes using the Jubilee line all the way or taking the Met Line from Finchley Road to Wembley Park and then changing back to the Jubilee.
Stanmore to Marble Arch and knowing EXACTLY where to stand on the Central line to get to the exit before anyone else.
Marble Arch to Belsize Park.
Belsize Park to Shepards Bush.
Shepards Bush to Finchley Road.

These were my journeys.

I missed it when I moved away to the 24 bus or when I was forced to climb aboard the London Overground (nee The Silverlink). I felt like I betrayed something of myself in using these other modes of transport. Like I had done something cowardly in using these 'lesser' conveyances. Where is the inherent danger on the 24? The Overground, well yeah. That's a little different, but it wasn't the tube. It was a suburban route.

I am deeply romantic about my underground, my Misery Line.

Some alternative underground maps... (click on all to enbiggen)