In uk.railway Martin Underwood a@b wrote:
Another peculiarity of http://www.traintimes.org.uk/map/ is that direct
trains and stopping trains are shown on different lines on the map. I
think the black and grey lines are straight lines which join the stations
at which the train calls. Taking the Reading-Oxford area, there's one set
of lines which joins each of the intermediate stations, and stopping
trains are shown as progressing along that route. But then there's another
straight line which joins Reading and Oxford directly, bypassing the
curved route of the real railway line, and non-stop Reading-Oxford trains
progress along that. Rather counter-intuitive.

It's an interesting way of visualising engineering works. At a
glance I can see today:

No trains west of Truro
No trains north of Ely
Euston only has a DC lines service
Brighton-London trains diverted via Horsham/bus to Haywards Heath
(and amusingly the map is getting Berwick, E. Sussex and Berwick-upon-Tweed
confused)

....which is quite neat.

Theo