Now Huncoat And Rishton Want Todmorden Curve Service
The title of this article in the Accrington Observer says it all – Council writes to government calling for Huncoat and Rishton to be added to direct Manchester rail link.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens over the next year or so, as more diesel trains become available.
Along this line from Preston to Todmorden, everything though does seem to be on the up.
Did five hundred metres of relaid track ever cause a such a large positive effect before?
An Amateur Tube Map
This amateur Tube Map is published in Gizmondo.
Amateur Tube Map
It is a brave attempt to make something that is getting increasingly complicated, more readable.
As I travel around Europe, I see some terrible maps, but the biggest sin is places, where they show their maps far to small or place them so you have to be nearly two metres tall to see them.
London has a unique advantage in that many stations have been designed so you go down the escalators, you are often in a large spacious lobby, with often quite large flat walls. Also with the removal of booking offices, there is now often a sizeable flat wall, as you enter the station from the street.
The current common map in stations is printed in A0 format which is 841 x 1189 millimetres. But there are larger paper sizes.
So why not use 2A0 (1189 x 1682 mm.) or even 4A0 (1682 z 2378 mm.)?
They could be printed direct onto high-strength vinyl in a similar way to the advertising you see wrapped around buses and trains.
Not all maps would be this size, but I believe putting them in prominent locations on the transport network would be a good idea.
After all, we’re always being told Big is Beautiful.
Eventually, as electronic screens get larger and more affordable, these could be used.
It doesn’t really matter what the map looks like, as I hope any bad ones would never be displayed.
But size and readability is everything!
The Anonymous Widower 