Request ID: FOI-1935-2122 Date published: 22 December 2021
You asked
Dear Sir/Madam
In respect of the tube maps made available by TfL at tube stations please can you provide the following information:
- When the release dates will be of the next three tube map editions (as precise as possible)
- Which tube stations receive deliveries of tube maps first/what the methodology of the order release to each tube station is
- Please also provide PDF copies of the December 2020 and September 2021 tube maps
We answered
TfL Ref: 1935-2122
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 28 November 2021 asking for information about our tube maps.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act / and our information access policy. I can confirm that we hold some of the information you require. You asked: In respect of the tube maps made available by TfL at tube stations please can you provide the following information:
- When the release dates will be of the next three tube map editions (as precise as possible) - Which tube stations receive deliveries of tube maps first/what the methodology of the order release to each tube station is - Please also provide PDF copies of the December 2020 and September 2021 tube maps
The next Tube map will be issued in mid January 2022; however for the following two maps, we are not yet able to provide the dates they will be released as they will be issued to coincide respectively with the Elizabeth Line Launch sometime in 2022 and the Barking Riverside Launch the date of which is not yet confirmed.
The maps are usually distributed to all stations at the same time. Each station gets a weekly delivery of marketing posters etc on a Friday and as and when there are map updates, these get distributed via the weekly delivery. Please note however that with the September 2021 issue, there were some print problems, so zone 1 stations got their map delivery one week before the rest of the network.
Please see attached as requested. These maps can also be accessed via our public website which has the most up to date maps. https://tfl.gov.uk/maps/track/tube
If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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Yours sincerely
Sara Thomas FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
