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Old May 4th 07, 03:11 AM posted to uk.transport.london
John Rowland John Rowland is offline
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alex_t wrote:

There's a geographically accurate map at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Im...d_full_map.png


Indeed, I was talking about the tracks between stations: as mentioned
earlier (on my map) District at Ealing Broadway is incorrect. Also I
think that Edgware Road 1and 2 are swapped (I always thought that the
Bakerlook one is the northern), Mornington Crescent is on the wrong of
the Northern tracks (I think), ...


No, Mornington Crescent is roughly correct, although the City Branch should
be a somewhat wider curve. I think showing the junction halfway between
Camden Town and Mornington Crescent would be more accurate... I think.

The obvious errors are at the cross-platform interchanges where the lines
are not shown parallel, notably the Bakerloo and Jubbly at Baker Street
which are portrayed as nearly perpendicular, but also at Euston, Stockwell
and Oxford Circus.

I have a suspicion that the Charing Cross branch passes east of Lambeth
North, but ICBW.

The Metropolitan Line has unused platforms at Swiss Cottage station, so the
line should probably run closer to or through the station.

The portrayal of Arsenal is odd, because of the great horizontal distance
between the station entrance and the platforms: they are trying to show the
station east of the Victoria Line, which the *entrance* may well be, but the
Picc tracks between Finsbury Park and Caledonian Road are far away
underneath the WCML's graceful curve.

The portrayal of Newbury Park is also wrong: the line runs N-S through the
station, as an aerial photo will show:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=...6475&encType=1 .

They've got the Victoria line passing straight under Buckingham Palace,
which I don't think it does.