London Underground area, published by National Rail and Transport for London, includes suburban railway services. The tube map came second in a BBC and London Transport Museum poll asking for a favourite UK design icon of the 20th century and the underground's 150th anniversary was celebrated by a Google Doodle on the search engine. While the first use of a roundel in a London transport context was the trademark of the London General Omnibus Company registered in 1905, it was first used on the Underground in 1908 when the UERL placed a solid red circle behind station nameboards on platforms to highlight
London Underground infrastructure London Overground – at New Cross and New Cross Gate. Of the boroughs that the Underground passes through, Hackney is served solely by Manor House station on the Piccadilly line in the very north-western edge of the borough. For the most part however some of the tube lines like the Central line skirt around the edge of the Hackney rather than going through it. Greenwich borough was unserved until North Greenwich station opened on the Jubilee line extension in 1999. The lines are electrified with a four-rail DC system: a conductor rail between the rails is energised at −210 V