Matthew Somerville wrote:
Martin Underwood 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.

Quite correct. It would of course be better if a direct train could
move along the line of the stopping service at least (or the actual
track in a perfect world ), but currently it doesn't, and I don't
have time to add it. It would require knowing the routes of the lines
(e.g. if it comes across a Reading-Oxford direct, it would need to
know which route that actually should go along).

I don't agree that it would be better. What's the point of showing an
express train going through a station when it doesn't stop there? That would
be like the tube map showing Metropolitan Line trains running through the
middle of Willesden Green. Anyway, trains which run non-stop between Bromley
South and London Victoria can use one of two different routes, and although
the working timetable shows which route each train takes, this info isn't
made available to the public, and trains can even be rerouted by the
signaller without the public ever being told, so there is no way you could
realistically work out which stations to show those trains passing through.

The only thing I would change about your maps would be to make sure that the
lines of the express routes *don't* go through any local stations, and don't
coincide or nearly coincide with each other, by adding the odd curve or bend
where necessary, so that one could always tell the previous stop and next
stop of every train.