The London 2050 Tube Map 

I don't know how it took me so long to watch this video, it's absolutely fascinating. A lot has changed in two years, it'll be interesting to see how the remaining schemes pan out.

I JUST HOPE THEY ARE ALL AIR-CONDITIONED AT 2050

South London desperately needs more tube stations. I'd like to see an extension of the Victoria Line southbound from Brixton up to Crystal Palace. I've never understood why the line suddenly stops at Brixton. Totally ridiculous and unfair, and then the mayor is telling everyone to use public transport more. Why would you in this situation? And yes the Bakerloo line needs to be extended from Elephant and Castle to Lewisham.

Now do it again but include the thameslink, southern, SE, SW and northern mainline on there... FOR THE CHAOS!

meanwhile, Glasgow still has the single loop we started with 120 years ago... and the best they can commit to is upgrading to driverless trains.

Jay Foreman needs to come up with a new song when these finishes

2500: Every railway in Britain is now part of the Tube

So I‘m sitting here in Munich,Germany watching this - London simply has the most interesting public transport network.

This is getting out of hand. THERE HAS TO BE seperate maps for everything, otherwise the pocket map will be the size of a TV

One thing this video points out is the lack of infrastructure still planned for SE London. Major infrastructure is needed to support housing growth in North Greenwich, Lewisham, Bromley and Croydon. National Rail is already creaking at the seams and needs support from TfL services. At one stage it was discussed the DLR could extend to Forest Hill which has gone no where, additionally the tram could extend to Crystal Palace which has not gone ahead. I do believe Lewisham, Greenwich and Bromley councils need to express more interest in transport schemes as trams/DLR/Overground services could make a vast impact to their residents. I’m not ignoring the proposal to extend the Bakerloo Line but this is a drop in the Ocean vs what is needed and in comparison to the rest of London.

Plot twist: its 2050 and the central part of the Elizabeth line is yet to be completed 😂

The overground network is already quite complex, and especially with the mentioned extensions, I think it would make sense to colour code the separate overground lines.

Geoff, jago hazzard, ashley and techandtrains101 are officially the 4 horsemen of the tube

You have missed something on the DLR, there is already a consultation going on to extend the DLR from galleons reach across the river to Abbey Wood. Creating 2 new stations in the Thamesmead area.

When I lived in Sutton It was said that there was a proposed Northern Line extension from Morden to Sutton - more or less along the current Southern/National rail lines. In fact, almost exactly along the route (as far as I can tell) of the tram line extension. Might even make sense to replace the current Southern Line to Epsom Downs with a Tube/tram instead if either of these extension ideas get the go ahead.

You know, it would actually make sense if the Battersea branch of the Northern Line was to be extended, not only to Clapham Junction, but also to East Putney and Wimbledon - thus restoring the historic route that also went that way [and left the East Putney to Wimbledon section of the District Line as well as its' stations in National Rail ownership, even though there were no through trains].

I'm American, only been to London once, yet here I am fascinated by this :0

Very informative, but sadly as you put this video out tfl ended up in financial difficulty. I doubt they can build all of this by 2050 now, but it's good to know what they have in the pipeline so thanks again for posting.

Thank you Ashley. Your videos are always very professional & informative, please keep up the good work!

What a very informative and well-illustrated video, many thanks for preparing and uploading, it's much appreciated.

One thing that irritates me about a lot of TfL lines of all modes is where one line crosses another with no interchange between the lines. Just fixing that alone would provide more flexibility, and would make a lot of useful journeys easy that are now difficult and time-consuming, or impractical. This is especially so in the zones from Z3 up.

Great stuff. Thanks. Extending the Northern Line beyond Battersea Power Station to Clapham Junction jumped out at me as a really good thing to do. Hopefully that can be brought forward in the programme. Crossrail 2 in the early 2030s strikes me as quite heroic - but good luck to them and we'll see.

Great video buddy. Fantastic visual clarity as well thanks to the use of the tube map. Well done.

Thank you Ashley, appreciate you taking the time to research and put all this together 👍🏼👍🏼

This is a great video, I knew a video like this would appear sooner or later! Very informative

Fantastic video. I would always suggest adding Thameslink services to any future tube maps you create, because they are essentially a tube service, or you could consider it Crossrail 0.

Great video! It was very informative and it’s got me excited for the new upgrades!

Ambitious! We LOVE the Tube, and this is very informative!

The government has also invested heavily in Manchester to relieve travel congestion.....£400 for an extra bus stop outside Victoria station.

Given the fun of the Crossrail / Elizabeth Line / Purple Trains delays, add at least 5-25 years to all dates... 😈

A very useful summary, thank you! A number of projects here that I was not aware of, and good to see potential connectivity improvements.

Excellent explanation - well articulated and graphically presented. I had to keep up with the new stations' names, but other than that it is a great video. More like this, please.

I see that other people have commented on this before. Great animation. Very interesting too, but yes, if you do ever remake it, it might be advisable to spellcheck all the stations. There are quite a few clangers here!

Angel Road station no longer exists. It was replaced in May last year by Meridian Water, built right next to it. Edit: I've just seen Geoff Marshall's comment 😊

Excellent stuff. And very tidy cartographic and video editing work, too.

All this, yet still nothing in Camberwell or the Walworth road. Don't worry about us, we'll just walk everywhere !!! 🚶🚶🚶

Very good, but don't forget the extension of the Victoria Line 1. to Leytonstone and Whipp's Cross, and 2 northwards to Angel Road and Edmonton Green. Southwards to Herne Hill. In 2050 I'll only be 94 and hopefully still able to ride the tube.

Yet no services going past lewisham? They have train lines going to Shenfield, Hampton Court but struggle to go past lewisham? No wonder black wall tunnel is always packed

Very interesting - many thanks for doing this. It will be interesting to see how much of it happens. As someone who turns 70 next year, I just hope I'm around long enough to see some of it!

This is one of the best videos on RU-vid, honestly.

For the last overground extension there's a abandoned loop track connecting to Kew bridge station as well. This forms a triangle shape of track around the new Brentford stadium which will be very good for them.

I see the plan to 'confuse the enemy' is coming along nicely :P

Love this futuristic video love to see more perhaps with actual dates of completed works

Amazing video!!!!!!!!! My first ride on the tube was in 1976....there have been some changes since then. LOL

A plan which in China would take about a year to complete....

Finally! South London gets the transport it deserves!

Thank you for so much good information about news and projects in London public passenger transports. Very interesting video. 👍👍👍

You deserve way more than... (Let me check) 400 subs?! Yeah, you deserve more.

I want to talk about Crossrail 2 (I'll refer to it as XR2) The southern section of XR2 would not require any new track, since it would run alongside SWR trains. At Wimbledon, things start to become a problem. This map shows the line going directly to Balham, requiring new tracks to be built. However, there is a workaround to this, and it involves Clapham Junction. Instead of having the line run directly to Balham, we can run it to Clapham Jn and then use Southern tracks to go down to Balham. From there, a new line would be constructed linking the Southern track to SouthEastern tracks. From there, the line would follow SouthEastern's tracks into Victoria. A new tunnel would be constructed to Euston-King's Cross-St. Pancras (EKCSP from now on), since XR2 cannot use LU (London Underground) tracks. From EKCSP, a new section of track would be constructed to Angel, then onto GreaterAnglia (GA) tracks. XR2 would follow GA tracks to just short of Hackney Downs, where the branch to New Southgate would begin. From there, a new bit of track would be constructed to connect Dalston (a new station would need to be built?). From there, the line would merge back onto Overground tracks, running up to Seven Sisters. A new piece of track would be constructed linking Seven Sisters to Great Northern lines, heading via Turnpike Lane. Alternatively, you could cheat and build a curve of track connecting two of the Overground Lines, then adding a crescent to Turnpike Lane, then add another curve of track at Harringay station(s). This branch would then continue to follow Great Northern tracks to New Southgate. Back on the branch of the line at Dalston, a new section of track would be constructed linking the Overground line (the diversion to Dalston would join the Overground Line) back onto the GreaterAnglia tracks, where the XR2 would run up to Tottenham Hale, Northumberland Park, Meridian Water, all the way to Broxbourne, with opportunities to run up to Hertford East or even to Stansted Airport. Now, back down before Dalston, where the line would be on GA tracks, another branch would start, this time following GA tracks to Hackney Downs. From there, the line could merge onto Overground tracks, running to Stratford, then following more GA tracks up to Chelmsford and Southend as a bonus section. This could also link the two Crossrails together better. Now, rolling stock. There are some existing types of stock that could be compatible with such a mess of electrification. I think all of the tracks which XR2 would run on have been electrified with a mixture of 25 kV overhead and 750V third rail. There are many rolling stock types that are compatible with both, such as the Desiro City trains used by ThamesLink and Great Northern, the 710 used on the London Overground, as well as the 378, 387, 377, some 313s, 395, as well as a few locomotives. All of these are compatible with the tracks which could be used. The only problem occurs after Angel, where the train is exposed to a variety of electrification methods, requiring frequent switching between the two. And that's Crossrail 2 for you, as cheap as possible and constructing low amounts of track. (edits were to "save" progress)

China can build another TFL in another city and have it completed by December 2020

Brilliant, thank you. i'm 64 so probably wont be around in 2050 but hope to still see the differences in the up and coming future decade or two

Hello There, this is an interesting perspective, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. Cheers Peter :)

Really interesting. How did you do the animations? That always fascinates with these types of videos 😍

I think you should talk about the possibility of a Thameslink 2 video. Its a proposal to run from East Croydon via Lewisham, Canary wharf and finished at Stratford.

Very informative. Straight to the point. Interesting! What more can you ask for?

This is really cool. Great work!

thoughts: extending the H&C line down to barnes/roehampton

South london: am I a joke to you?

Love it!!!!!Keep up the excellent work!!

I'm all for Crossrail extending to Tring! would make my life a lot easier! Great video :)

Don’t understand why the river can’t be used as a more legitimate form of transport. High speed boats, what a great way to travel to work. Just look at all the ferries in NY

3:26 I hope so, it's so stupid that no TfL services go to Kent, yet they stretch far out in almost all other directions. Why does it only finish at Abbey Wood. If Ebbsfleet is to be a true international hub, this link is needed.

Looks good! The bit where you added in the crossrail 2 scheme, I thought jeeeez that's bigger than the current Manchester transport system! Lol

Brilliant video, very informative. Nice to see the line is expanding but not at the costs haha.

Bromley has left the chat

Is the possible Overground extension from Hounslow to West Hampstead the same as the 'West London Orbital' ?

As a northerner this is a bitter sweet video to be honest. It's cool all the new lines and all but I would like some investment up here even just to make the stations look less dilapidated

Very good and very informative. Thank you.

How about expanding the Bakerloo line from Hayes to Biggin Hill and to a terminus at Westerham, a town south of the M25 with no direct rail access.

Fantastic video and seriously well done. Sadly, I'm pessimistic about many of these improvements actually coming to fruition unless people start returning to work anytime soon as there won't be a London economy let alone any need for further lines to transport the dwindling number of commuters.

An interesting and helpful summary. I might even get to see (and travel on!) some of these extensions before reaching my own terminus. But please revise the map to show correct station spellings.

Thanks - great video!

Why does south London always get forgotten. It’s very unlikely however that many of these plans will happen. TFL is practically bankrupt and with reduced passenger numbers due to working from home, a lot of the north London extensions will be unnecessary.

London needs to link up its intercity rail stations with underground diversions - this will take a lot of pressure off the Tube - it will also make the national network much more efficient.

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What do you think of my extension: as the Chingford branch leaves Walthamstow Central it’s going to go to South Woodford, Barkingside and little Heath before reaching Romford and finishing at Upminster, I wanted to connect the Upminster to Romford branch to the Chingford branch to make the Upminster branch more useful to commuters.

What a fantastic presentation! Two things come to mind. Firstly, you said at the beginning that the population of London would increase dramatically in the next 30 years or so but will there be enough places for people to live there by then? I suspect that more urban sprawl or alternatively more densely packed housing might put at least some people off living in London and its immediate environs. Secondly, with the Covid-19 pandemic having acted as a catalyst to increase working from home, will there be the demand for public transport in 2050?

Great video thank you. I wonder if/ how Covid-19 will affect any of these plans?

It would be interesting to see how the pandemic will affect the growth population in London. It could be that by 2024 some of these proposals are scrapped if the growth is reduced. Remains to be seen. Great video.

I absolutely love the animation !

They should re look at the proposals that were made to extend the Victoria line north to Leytonstone, Snaresbrook, Wanstead, South woodford or Woodford (vis a new station at Whipps Cross) to provide interchange with the central line.

I cannot believe how slow London is at building train lines. All of this should be manageable by 2030.

It will be interesting to see the evolution of the public transport networks in other european countries, maybe Berlin, Vienna or Paris :) Nice video!

This reveals that a lot of relatively small enhancements and connections can bring big enhancements through improving the network as a whole; they really ought to be brought forwards into a rolling scheme. Crossrail 2, however, is another matter; full-scale underground railways are disproportionately expensive and troublesome to get into operation, as Crossrail has demonstrated; if it had been constructed as another tube line it would have been running ten years ago and cost a fraction of the current uncompleted line. There are some stub-ends in central London which might usefully be extended and incorporated into the network, including southwards from Moorgate, the Aldwych branch, the abandoned section of the Jubilee Line to Charing Cross, and the isolated Waterloo and Bank line. These are valuable pieces of infrastructure which are standing idle. All these projects will give rise to land value uplift, as did the Jubilee Line Extension, which added three times as much land value as it cost to build. London Overground gave rise to big increases in land value in previously unpopular areas like Brockley. There would be no difficulty in paying for any of the projects which were value for money (which Crossrail 2 might not be) if there was a land value tax system in place. www.landvaluetax.org/public-transport/crossrail-bonanza-for-landowners www.landvaluetax.org/100-what-is-land-value-taxation/file

I’ll believe all this when (and if) I see it!

I want to see more videos like this

Good to see a bit more inter-suburban connectivity, eg. Neasden straight to Brent Cross instead of the daft Zones 4-1-4 horseshoe or long bus waiting times.

A video I watch again and again and again

A flock of pigs flew past my window when I was watching this - wonder why??

The Overground seriously needs to have different colours for its different lines.

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Wow i had no idea so much was planned. Mind. Blown.

What about splitting the Northern Line in 2. Has that idea died a death or still on the cards?

extend the northen line all the way down to gatwick ! We need another Tube airport

great stuff. fascinating

I have couple of proposed routes (mainly for the south of London) that i think we would benefit from: Brixton - West Croydon (Victoria Line): I think extending the Victoria Line further south to Croydon via Dulwich would help out that whole area there massively. The line would finish at West Croydon connecting with the London Overground. the London Trams and Southern Railway. (Stopping at Brixton. Herne Hill, West Dulwich, West Norwood, St Joseph's College, Norbury, Thornton Heath, Selhurst and West Croydon). Aldgate - London Bridge (Metropolitan Line): As we all know, Fenchurch Street is the only London National Rail terminus that isn't served by the Tube. I think extending the Metropolitan Line further London Fenchurch Street would connect it much better to northern areas of London. It would also encourage people from places like Southend and Tilbury Town to travel into London. It would also allow better connections to London Southend Airport. Extending to London Bridge Station would allow for better connections to London Liverpool Street and Stratford, without having to pay more for a National Rail ticket. (Stopping at Aldgate, London Fenchurch Street and London Bridge). Hammersmith - Kingston (Hammersmith & City and Circle Lines): South - West London is very poorly connected to the tube, with only two small spurs of the District Line and one on the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow Airport. Instead of having the H&C and Circle Lines terminating at Hammersmith, they could continue through towards the A3. It would then tunnel under the A3 and Kingston Hill, terminating underneath Kingston National Rail station. This would allow direct services towards the north of London as well as The City. (Stopping at Hammersmith, Barnes Green, Barnes, Roehampton and Kingston). Battersea Power Station - Twickenham, Teddington/Motspur Park (Northern Line): As I explained in my previous point, South - West London is very poorly connected so I think a huge Northern Line extension would be a perfect solution to help out those areas. Most of these trains would run underneath currently existing South - Western Railway tracks. Much of this extension would circle around Richmond Park, nearly forming a loop. First extension (Battersea Power Station - Twickenham): For both extensions, the Northern Line would continue towards Clapham Junction and from there follow different railway tracks. This one would go towards Putney (forming a large interchange station with East Putney and changing its name to just Putney), Richmond and finishing at Twickenham. This would offer great connections with Twickenham Stadium, services to Kew Gardens, the London Wetlands Centre and would offer more Underground services to residential areas. (Stopping at Battersea Power Station, Clapham Junction, Wandsworth Town, Putney, Barnes, Mortlake, North Sheen, Richmond, St Margarets and Twickenham). Second extension (Battersea Power Station - Teddington/Motspur Park): Here, the Northern Line would go south towards Wimbledon, Raynes Park with a spur going towards Motspur Park and one going towards Teddington via Kingston. This would offer services to Wimbledon Tennis Courts, Bushy Park, Hampton Wick and once again offering Underground services to the South - West. (Stopping at Battersea Power Station, Clapham Junction, Earlsfield, Wimbledon, Raynes Park, then continue on to Motspur Park or continue to New Malden, Norbiton, Kingston, Hampton Wick and Teddington). Victoria - Hounslow (Victoria Line): Although I do really like the Victoria Line, I feel like it could connect with many more places, so as well as coming up with an extension south, I am proposing a new route west of London. After Victoria station, it would verge west towards Chelsea, with a new station just near to Chelsea Old Town Hall. It would then interchange at West Brompton and continue on to Barnes Green, Kew Gardens and then up to Brentford. From there it would follow the South - Western Railway tracks underground to Hounslow where it would terminate. This would offer services to Kew Gardens, another line going close to Heathrow Airport and it would provide a station in Chelsea, which is desperately needed. (Stopping at Victoria, Chelsea, West Brompton, Lillie Road, Barnes Green, Kew Gardens, Brentford, Syon Lane, Isleworth and Hounslow). Walthamstow Central - Hainault (Victoria Line): Once again, very sorry but I think the Victoria Line should travel further and with the center of the Fairlop Loop very bare as well, I think it would be perfect if the Victoria expanded further East, cutting through the Fairlop Loop. Firstly, it would interchange with the Central Line at Snaresbrook. From there it would have a stop in front of Beal High School and then finally end at Hainault. This wold offer a lot more mobility and connectivity with central London and important stations like King's Cross, St Pancras International, Euston and Victoria. (Stopping at Walthamstow Central, Snaresbrook, Beal High School, Fulwell Avenue and Hainault). Hopefully you guys like my comment and reply if you any ideas or changes i could make.

What about the Victoria Line extension from Brixton to West Croydon or East Croydon via Dulwich, Streatham or Norwood and from Walthamstow Central to Woodford. Plus with Tramlink 2 to Sutton from Wimbledon or Colliers Wood. And DLR extension to Central London and to Dagenham Dock. With the London Overground extended to Barking Riverside & to Abbey Wood. And even London Overground to operate suburban services in Southwest London, South London and Southeast London and to take over the Southern, South Western Railway and Southeastern suburban services. And to take over the Great Northern suburban services from Moorgate to Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City, Gordon Hill and Hertford North. And perhaps London Overground to operate the West Ealing-Greenford Line. With new rolling stocks on order & to be built.

Good to see south London finally getting an equal share of the cake

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Great work, this must have taken ages!