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Tom Anderson · January 24th 05, 11:26 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 24 Jan 2005 wrote:

Tom Anderson:

I'm not sure about the one colour per terminal, though. LU's maps have
the idea of one colour per line, which i think should be maintained,
and i'm not sure that you can consider all routes which go to the same
terminal to be a single line. The Windsor and Guildford lines, for
example, both go to Waterloo, but really aren't one line. Perhaps
different lines serving the same termini could be distinguished by
different hues or shades of the same base colour? If Waterloo was red,
Windsor could be burgundy, Guildford scarlet, etc. I'm not sure what
you'd do about Thameslink services which go via Blackfriars and London
Bridge; either have the line change colour as it crosses the river, or
leave it off the map!

I don't think every different route needs different colours

Well, it doesn't *need* it, strictly, but i think it'd be more useful. I'm
not saying every combination of source and destination should have a
unique colour, just that colours should be used to break the routes up
into more than the three or four groups colouring by terminal would give.
Would you really colour the West Anglia and Great Eastern lines the same,
just because they both run into Liverpool Street? Does that mean we should
also colour the Central and Hammersmith & City lines the same?

(and there are limits on the number of them you can have, particularly
given the tube will be included as well).

Hmm. I think there are few enough colours left after the tube lines that
we're going to have duplication anyway.

But I think there are arguments for splitting the Waterloo, Victoria,
Charing Cross/Cannon Street (which I think would have to be considered
as one terminal - via London Bridge - to simplify things), London Bridge
and Liverpool Street lines. The others would work with one colour I
think.

That is, one colour per terminal, counting some groups of terminals as a
single terminal (we'd probably treat King's Cross and Moorgate as one as
well).

Would you really count Charing Cross/Cannon Street services as distinct
from London Bridge? I'd throw them all in together, myself.

tom

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