Southern new route map

[OxtedL]

This has been circulating for a bit now, and I was wondering if there were any opinions? It's a little more cluttered than the old one, but more colourful .

http://www.southernrailway.com/images/network_map_20110225.pdf

 

[trentside]

I like the arrow of Newhaven Town... "To France". I hope that's a ferry connection, and that they're not proposing to test whether a 313 will float

In all seriousness, I like the map. It's informative, shows interchanges etc, and the colour coding makes it nice and clear.

 

[ushawk]

I like it as you can clearly see where you can exactly go from each station to, so its more user friendly.

Almost like a national rail tube map

 

[N Levers]

Wandsworth road - Olympia is on there...

 

[ushawk]

Just noticed on it that Plumpton is down as a Limited Service station, even though it has a near hourly service, which is more frequent that Winchelsea and Three Oaks, which arent Limited Service. Strange.

 

[tbtc]

Looks nice and simple, but (when I've viewed it) the line descriptions are in colour yet the main map is in several shades of grey. Is this just my computer?

 

[OxtedL]

Yes. It's you.

 

[tbtc]

Yes. It's you.

Oh well...

 

[jopsuk]

some spectacular mangling of geography mind- Guildford appears to be near Southampton!

 

[Lrd]

Looks nice and simple, but (when I've viewed it) the line descriptions are in colour yet the main map is in several shades of grey. Is this just my computer?

Mine is just like yours as well! It really confused me when the OP said it's colourful!

 

[OxtedL]

You may need a new version of Adobe Reader.

I'm touched that they gave Oxted its own route

 

[Lrd]

I use Preview on Mac, not Adobe Reader, maybe the reason, never had any troubles before that I am aware of...

 

[wintonian]

Hmm theres no black line & arrow pointing out from Eastleigh to London/ the Midlands and the North, otherwise I think it's quite good.

 

[me123]

I use Preview on Mac, not Adobe Reader, maybe the reason, never had any troubles before that I am aware of...

I've got the same issue on my mac. Must be something to do with preview.

 

[trentside]

I'm able to view the map in Preview without any problems. Strange!

Another thing I should add, is that I like how it shows Plusbus availability. I think that's something all operators should make nice and clear!

 

[Southern]

Hmm theres no black line & arrow pointing out from Eastleigh to London/ the Midlands and the North, otherwise I think it's quite good.

Probably worried about making people aware of the much quicker SWT service

 

[OxtedL]

Southern have always been fairly good at advertising plus bus. I think it's mainly in Go-Ahead (ie Metrobus) areas though, so not so useful to many places...

 

[317653]

I think it's much more complicated than the old green one

 

[Any Permitted]

I like it, I like the idea of having Southern's service orientated around the London - Brighton mainline, it could stand to be a little neater, maybe get rid of the limited service lines because they aren't of much use to the average map user.