On 5 Sep 2006 14:12:40 -0700, "Peter Heather"
wrote:


Dave Arquati wrote:

Going back to the branding, all "Overground" lines will appear on the
Tube map, which TfL has released a sample of for 2010. Interestingly,
the line style (white centre with orange edges) looks much like the old
style used to show selected British Rail lines (like Thameslink and the
NLL) about fifteen years ago.

But why on earth have they lumped all the Overground lines together as
if they were one line. The Underground lines being different colours
and names makes it pretty clear where trains are going. But the
Overground lines as shown make it appear that you could, for example,
catch a train direct from West Croydon to Richmond or Clapham Junction
via Gospel Oak, should you want to. At the very least, the East London
Line Extension should run in to Highbury parallel to the line from
Stratford, and terminate there. In the same way as the Metropolitan
does at Aldgate or the District at Edgware Road.

As service patterns seem to be open to a lot of debate there is no point
showing separate services at this point. The point of the map is to
simply make the routes stand out relative to the rest of the lines. As
has already been said the DLR is shown as one network on the main map.
this is probably just as well because the differing peak / off peak
services would make the map overly fussy and out of scale. I would
personally quite like to see separate lines for the Overground but that
would depend on how complex the eventual service pattern is.

--
Paul C


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