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- John Simpson emailed me to say that the EMT map didn't match its timetable. This got me looking, where the following problems were unearthed...
- • Grantham - Ancaster curve not shown.
- • Some maps say St Pancras International and some say St Pancras Domestic.
- • Limited service hatching around Nottingham makes no sense when it runs parallel to a full service, making it difficult to see what goes on around Nottingham and Trent junctions. This hatching is historical and is left over from older maps where high speed services were separated from local services and in a different colour.
- • Route1TimetableDec09 map doesn't show direct Sheffield - Leeds route; or Scarborough in timetable; doesn't explain magenta numbers against station names.
- • Timetable numbers 1 - 9 have different file names (routes 1-4) so if you download them you don’t know which ones they are.
- • Liverpool - Norwich service shows local stations (in Hope Valley and East Anglia) at which only one train a day stops (approximately) . While the Cleethorpes service doesn't show all minor stations (but perhaps EMT don’t call at stations like Grimsby Docks and New Clee).
- • Matlock - Nottingham and Corby - Melton are the only services shown separately (although unclear what happens to Matlock trains at Nottingham).
- Corby trains run through to Derby as well I believe.
- • 37 angled captions.
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- Shame about that limp wrist over there between Habrough and Cleethorpes.
- 'London St Pancras International' - rather a long station title? Adding the over-long word 'International' after airport stations and every stop on High Speed One is a nuisance.
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- Shame the central vertical isn't aligned.
- No reference to name of airport served. Particularly Nottingham, Derby, Long Eaton, East Midlands Parkway and Loughborough which all presumably refer to East Midlands airport, but how should one choose one over the other? The leaflet suggests using Peterborough to change for another service to Stanstead, why not Cambridge or Ely? And surprisingly, St Pancras is for Gatwick, not Heathrow, which doesn't feature in the list of seven international airports.
- The Liverpool arm has been unnecessarily extended making the map less efficient overall.
- And where is the Norwich line, or come to that, the many other missing EMT routes that can provide 'access' to airports?
- Why the distinction between London and 'local' services (when local includes the major Liverpool - East Anglia cross country route)? And surely the 'limited services' distinction taken from the main route map is of no benefit here?
- This map should show direct services to airport stations like, for example, the Manchester Airport map.
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