To create your own personal, one-of-a-kind Tube Map, in two easy steps.

You will need:
— A large piece of paper
— A black pen
— An assortment of coloured markers or pencils
— Tipp-Ex
— A few slow afternoons

Step 1.
Starting with Oxford Circus, draw as much as you can remember of the tube map. Underground and Overground lines, DLR, even the tram if you know it. Think of everywhere you’ve been and everywhere you’ve heard of. If you remember a station but don’t know where it goes, just put it somewhere on the map. If you don’t know how to spell a station, guess. Get down everything you remember and everything you half-remember.

Step 2.
After a week or so, revisit the map you drew from memory. Referring to a copy of the ‘correct’ (TfL-issued) map, fill in the gaps. Use Tipp-Ex to erase stations and lines that you drew incorrectly. Keep as much of the original as possible. The TfL map is a guide to the order of the stations, not to the shapes of the lines.

When you’re done, take a step back. You’ve just created your own personal tube map. It may hold the same information as the TfL version, but its form and logic is unique to you. Hang it on your wall.

Here's one I made:

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