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Old May 6th 07, 09:02 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
Olof Lagerkvist Olof Lagerkvist is offline
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alex_t wrote:

South Wimbledon and Wimbledon are much closer together and Wimbledon and
Morden are close too.



Updated (and fixed south District and Northern in general):
http://www.fxfp.com/get/tube/2007/05/m_001.png



Very nice work I must say. In addition to other comments here I have a
few thing you could ajust if you like.

* Canary Wharf Jubilee Line station is actually located east of the DLR
bridge between Canary Wharf and Heron Quays. For an out-of-station
interchange above ground as this one it feels wrong to have it on the
wrong side, it does not matter very much for underground interchanges
though.

* The same goes for Bow Road - Bow Church. The District Line makes an
S-turn around there and passes over the DLR tracks just south of the Bow
Church station. But I am not sure if it is really useful to correct this
one, maybe you should keep it as it is right now, just like keeping the
Northern Line branches on the wrong side of eachother between Euston and
Camden Town may be a good idea, especially if the main point of the map
is to show how the stations are located more than showing the lines
geographically correct between them.

* The Bank-Monument complex is good, but the DLR platforms are located
close to the Northern Line platforms so it might be better to draw the
interchange to the Northern Line from the DLR terminus, or somewhere
around there.

* The Charing Cross and Embankment stations feel like drawn very far
apart... Especially on the Northern Line those are actually located
*very* close to each other. But this is complicated to draw as (at least
I think that) the two parts of the Charing Cross station, Bakerloo and
Northern, are located longer from each other than Charing Cross and
Embankment platforms on the Northern Line. Maybe you could let the
Northern Line cross over the Bakerloo south of Waterloo or something so
that you can draw the Northern Line's Embankment and Charing Cross
stations closer.

* There is cross-plaform interchange between the Northern Line branches
at Kennington.

* I personally like your colour choise for the DLR. I think it matches
the colour used on DLR signage much more than the official darker green
map colour does.

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