On 26/05/2017 18:55, Charles Ellson wrote:
On Fri, 26 May 2017 13:36:20 +0100, Basil Jet
wrote:


The cover is lilac.

Where are they dishing these out ? The only ones I usually see are
the posters in Underground stations and the online versions on the
TfL website.

The only differences I've spotted are obeli added to various
Waterloo served stations, and Cambridge North. There is no
indication that there are hardly any trains serving both Cambridge
North and Waterbeach, which somewhat defeats the point of a map at
all.

Not exactly a "London Connection".

I just noticed that the Thames is on the wrong place on the front
cover, showing a swathe of London south of the Thames from Hampton
Court to Staines... presumably it's been like that for years? Also,
the map used to go to Exeter, but it now cuts off at Yeovil. A
quick rummage tells me that the change was some time after 2006. I
wonder why. The 2006 map seems clearer on both sides, even if its
insistence on showing the Cotswold line all the way to Hereford but
cutting off the GWML before Swindon years after NSE ceased to exist
seemed a little brain-damaged.

I'm wondering why there seems to be no similar map for any other
part of the country.

ISTR there are but possibly only online so you have to do your own
printing and folding.

Is ATOC or whatever it's called now legally obliged to make such a
map for (most of) the former Network SouthEast area, but legally
allowed to ignore the provinces? The only other half decent map
I've found is the one GWR produce of their territory, with an
overview of Britain on the back.

Like other things, they are to some extent continuing what went on
in BR days. Back then you were into "here be dragons" territory a
couple of yards past the GL boundary and transport information
wasn't promoted in the way that UG/LPTB/LT/etc. had been doing it for
years.

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Several areas run by PTA/PTEs (or whatever they are called this week)
produce combined rail/bus maps for their areas. The (now discontinued)
West Yorkshire combined rail timetable included a diagrammatic map of
their own + adjacent areas.

"Northern" do a network map - but only in the format of station posters
as far as I know.

I saw copies of the "London" map available at Birmingham Moor St. last
weekend.