TFL now has greatly extended its walking coverage. The walking page links to four different version of the maps from the accepted answer above: Walking (steps / times) between Tube and Rail Stations (zones 1-3 / zones 1-2). And also it has Central London journeys that could be quicker to walk (these involve at least one station interchange):
Walking can be a quick and easy way to get around, particularly when travelling during the busiest
times, which are 08:00-09:00 and 17:30-18:30 Monday to Friday. The table below shows some popular
journeys within zones 1 and 2 that are quicker to walk
I never knew Great Portland Street and Regent’s Park are practically next to each other — only two minutes or 200 steps.
Using TFL’s Journey Planner you can select Public Transport, Cycling or Walking, input the origin and destination and find out a very accurate estimate of the time it takes to walk, cycle, etc. between stations. You can even select slow, average or fast walking options.
It’s not exactly a map, because it would be impossible to make a printed map that showed the walking time between every station, but I personally think it’s far better than a static map.
Just click on the Travel options & accessibility
link underneath the to/from inputs.
For a general offline case, get a paper street atlas of the city you’re in, and learn what symbols to look for for their trains, metros/undergrounds, trams etc! For a general online case, much the same with google maps or similar. Maybe not apple maps, as covered humorously here
For London specifically, there are two maps that spring to mind. One has been in the news in the last few days, but actually builds upon a map that has been around for a little bit. There’s an official TFL tube walking map, which shows the time to walk between stations along lines. It looks like this:
From your use case, that map might not always help. If one station is closed, it should be fine for walking to the next. If a line is closed, less so.
Dating from 2003, Rod Corp produced a map showing “walklines” between stations. This aims to show when two tube stations are within 500m of each other, and hence when it might be worth walking between them even though they’re not joined on the map. Some, but not all of these are available as “outerchanges” (out-of-station interchanges). The 2003 map from Rob is available here on his site, and has the links marked like this:
Otherwise, you’ll need a Geographically Accurate tube map, eg the Official TFL London Connections geographic map, so you can see how stations really are located near to each other, eg:
Well, what a coincidence. This was in the news today.
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