Saturday 7 May 2011

At last the rival London Connections Maps are to merge!

For a long time, TfL and AYOC each produced maps called London Connections Maps, showing both National Rail and LUL lines. Foillowing my suggestion several years ago, ATOC's introduced the colour codes for Underground Lines, so with colur coding for each TOC, it makes a good document. TfL's LC map used to show all the National Rail lines in one colour / without colour, until Oyster PAYG spread to National Rail, whereupon it changed the LC Map to the Oyster Map, and colour coded the National rail lines according to the London Terminus, or pair of termini. This avoided the irritating and changing names of the TOCs, but makes the maps very similar in content.

According to Modern Railways magazine (April 2011) ATOC and TfL have devised one map between them. At last and end to the wasteful duplication.

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