Taken from the 1903 Royal Commission on London’s Transport, this plan shows not only the basis of the existing tube network but also the many proposals that were to fall of the wayside – either in Parliament or due to lack of finance.
Some of the most interesting routes marked are the North Western Railway up Edgware Road and the North Eastern tube (9 and 9a) – lines arguably still missed and that were scuppered by the machinations of Charles Tyson Yerkes, the American financier who built most of London’s tube lines in 1905/6.