1577+2260 wrote:
On 7 Jun 2005 02:24:00 -0700, "Rupert Candy"
wrote:

- New limited SET service between Elephant & Castle and Herne Hill

About time too - that service is much less 'limited' than some shown on
that map (Streatham Hill-Tulse Hill and New Beckenham-Beckenham
Junction spring to mind), and is heavily used, but I don't believe it's
ever been shown before.

It appears that in this new version they've decided to show all[1]
TOCs' peak services, whereas previously they didn't bother if the peak
extras didn't cover any completely new routes. So for example in the
case of Southern via Bookham, it didn't actually cover any new links
or stations, so omitting it didn't remove any possible journey
opportunities from the map, whereas the Beckenham connection provided
a unique service. So they seem to have moved from being tidier to
being more comprehensive.


[1] Someone's going to notice an exception now, aren't they?

I haven't seen the new map yet, but it sounds like a lot of the old
inconsistencies have finally been corrected.

This isn't an exception as such, but a regular off-peak service which
was never shown was Weybridge to Waterloo via Brentford, while they
showed the one train a day from woking to Staines or whatever. It's
different from the other examples in that it's not a peak service that
they omitted.

Hat that been fixed now as well?

What about the South East map in the Chislehurst area? Does that show
a junction now? That was strangely removed not that long ago and never
came back, even as a restricted service (Cannon Street to Ramsgate
etc), possibly around the time that all Maidstone East Services went
from Victoria (with the introduction of 365s).