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Old January 5th 21, 10:07 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Thameslink returns to the Tube Map

Marland wrote:
Recliner wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:
On 16/12/2020 10:41, Recliner wrote:
Geoff celebrates the belated return of Thameslink to TfL's Tube Map, after
a long absence. And it's not just the core section, but as much as fits in
the extended zones. So the map now features over 500 stations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ5SQcdC48o

The map itself is not on the TfL site yet, but curiously is available at
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/202...test-tube-map/

They've left Hadley Wood off, despite it being in Zone 6.

The kink in the Thameslink Line between City TL and the junction north
of St Pancras seems inexplicable.

The Bakerloo Line shouldn't enter Elephant at the same angle that the
Denmark Hill branch leaves.

Maidenhead and Reading are still portrayed north of the Thames!


The official version is up:
https://content.tfl.gov.uk/standard-tube-map.pdf



Is the Northern line Battersea extension still due to open later this year?
If so then this edition of the map will have a short lifetime, in fact I’m
surprised the extension isn’t on there in some way even if it was shown as
a dotted or dashed line with an “opening soon” addendum.
Previous maps in the past have done so , it maybe TFL doesn’t want to
repeat the example of the never completed Northern Heights extensions which
appeared on maps and route diagrams before the scheme was abandoned. I
don’t think that will happen to the Battersea one especially as trains
under their own power have been doing testing runs in the past few weeks
but could opening be put back due to the C word.


Yes, I believe it's still due to open this year and, as you say, test
trains started running last month. The stations appear near-complete at
platform level. TfL just says, "The extension is scheduled to be completed
in autumn 2021". Note the careful use of the word 'completed' as opposed to
'open'.

I don't know if there's any dependency on the surface development projects
for the stations to open? For example, the Battersea Power Station Station
is incorporated in one of the new surface blocks, which may need to be
finished before the LU station can open. So, even if the LU work is all
complete, there could still be a delay before the public opening.

Presumably there will be another edition of the map by then? In any case,
it would perhaps mislead people to show it on maps many months before it
opens.