On 26 Nov, 20:13, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Mr Thant wrote:
On 26 Nov, 14:43, Tom Anderson wrote:

This is a tough one. The two best options i've come up with are to colour
it as an orbital route and to draw it as two lines, one in Victoria colour
and one in London Bridge colour. The latter is unwieldy but does convey
the information; the former is simpler but confusing.

I've shown you this here before, but the old Southern map does the
latter:
http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/network/largemap.htm

Ah yes. That doesn't look too bad, actually. At least for the inner SLL -
there's this outer SLL now too, CJ, Balham, Streatham Hill, Crystal
Palace, Sydenham, London Bridge; showing that on the old map would add a
black line from Clapham Junction to West Norwood ish, and a red line from
Crystal Palace up to London Bridge. On the plus side, my map would show
the line down through Brockley as one line, since i'm going to treat
Charing Cross and London Bridge as one.

tom


Perhaps I'm wrong, but the designation "outer South London
Line" (Victoria - Streatham Hill - Crystal Palace - LB) appears to
have been the creation of some Wikipedia contributors. I've never
heard or read the railways referring to that service by that name. The
South London Line in my mind has always been the Victoria - LB via
Peckham Rye service.

(Moving slightly off-topic...) Indeed the "South London Line" the
official designation of the actual running lines (i.e. the tracks)
until (I think) the late 80's when they were partially renamed the
"Atlantic Lines", when a junction went in between Peckham Rye and
Denmark Hill (Crofton Rd Jn) which allowed trains to switch over from
the Chatham lines.