London Underground Stations

​# FACT 4

205: The number of stations opened before the LondonUnderground became publicly owned in 1933.65: The number of stations opened afterwards until 2019

​COLOURS

The difficulty with this fact is the combination of the associated data. When talking about the subway in a certain place, the logo and the subway line map are immediately associated with it, which is the source of my inspiration. I combined the simplest bar chart and presented it in the form of a subway line map. The overall picture was similar to a minimalist subway map, including a legend and logo.

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Due to the large data of '206, it was scaled to the most appropriate proportion. The layout of the whole picture is very simple and clear. The colours match only the red and blue of the London Underground, and the font of the logo is used uniformly.

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As for the number of points, I tried to use one point to represent 5 stations, but the picture would become very crowded because the track in the back is relatively thick. If I draw 41 points only a large area of white will be left. What I came up with was to take a point where the red track meets the blue track and let them share the 20 stations.