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Tom Anderson · January 25th 05, 11:20 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 25 Jan 2005 wrote:

Tom Anderson:
On 24 Jan 2005 wrote:

Tom Anderson:

I'm not sure about the one colour per terminal, though. LU's maps
have the idea of one colour per line, which i think should be
maintained,

I don't think every different route needs different colours

Well, it doesn't *need* it, strictly, but i think it'd be more useful.
I'm not saying every combination of source and destination should have
a unique colour, just that colours should be used to break the routes
up into more than the three or four groups colouring by terminal would
give.

It'd be more than three or four, surely. I count:

-Fenchurch Street
-Liverpool Street (split into via Hackney, via Stratford)
-Kings Cross/Moorgate
-Thameslink
-Euston
-Marylebone
-Paddington
-Heathrow Express
-Waterloo (split into via Putney, via Wimbledon)
-Victoria (split into via Balham, via Brixton perhaps)
-Blackfriars
-Charing Cross/Cannon Street-London Bridge (South Eastern lines -
perhaps split into North Kent and Mid-Kent lines)
-London Bridge (Southern Lines)
-Orbital routes

That's a lot of colours.

A good point, well made; i'd been ignoring the lines north of the river.
However, i'd say there were 12 termini, to your 14:

Fenchurch Street
Liverpool Street (Hackney, Stratford)
King's Cross St Pancras / Moorgate
Thameslink
Euston
Marylebone
Paddington
Waterloo (Richmond, Wimbledon)
Victoria (Clapham Junction, Clapham High Street)
Blackfriars
London Bridge, including CX/CS (Southern, North Kent, Mid-Kent)
Orbital

There are 12 LU lines, so we could cover each terminus without too much
trouble, but LU already use shades, so it would be tricky to make my
scheme work. You might manage it with some low cunning - count Fenchurch
Street as Liverpool Street, count King's Cross, Blackfriars and Thameslink
as a single unit, etc.

Liverpool Street - red
Hackney - deep red
Stratford - bright red
Fenchurch Street - pink
Thameslink Axis - purple
Thameslink - royal purple
King's Cross + Moorgate - deep purple (Metropolitan)
Blackfriars - lilac (ugh)
Euston - yellow
Lines Vaguely Towards The West - brown
Paddington - brown
Marylebone - tan
Waterloo - green
Richmond - light green
Wimbledon - dark green
Victoria - blue
Clapham Junction - light blue
Clapham High Street - dark blue
London Bridge - (black)
Southern - black
North Kent - dark grey
Mid-Kent - light grey
Orbital - orange

How does that look? Ideally, i'd use black for orbital routes (no terminal
= no colour), but the multiple shades are just too useful.

Alternatively, perhaps the different lines could be differentiated by
shape? They could be decorated with lumps or nicks (like the tram on the
TfL London Connections map).

Also, things'll be easier once we have Crossrail - GE and GW could be the
same colour! I'm not sure what effect TL2k will have ...

(and there are limits on the number of them you can have,
particularly given the tube will be included as well).

Hmm. I think there are few enough colours left after the tube lines
that we're going to have duplication anyway.

You may be right. Thicker or thinner lines, then...?

For railways? As now, i'd say - hollow lines.

tom

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