With services through Castleford added to Huddersfield, York, Leeds and Hull

With the Cleethorpes route now running to Liverpool via Warrington Central instead of Manchester Airport.

They've gone schematic.

Just a few points:
• Widely spaced Manchester Airport blobs (wider than Piccadilly);
• Cleethorpes would be better inclined upwards;
• Unnecessary angled captions;
• Are the airport symbols relevent?
• It looks like there are two Manchester Piccadillys;
• Strange angle on Stalybridge-Piccadilly line;
• Badly positioned Victoria caption;
• Non-matching bends by Deansgate;
• WCML services call at Oxford Road.

Two Liverpool Lime Streets?

New map used on launch of new franchise by First Group.

• Tiny, difficult to see airport symbols;

• Multiple station name font sizes that don't seem to relate to the stations importance (ie Wigan is smaller than Birchwood which is smaller than Seamer);

• Warrington - Stalybridge looks like it bypasses Manchester Piccadilly;

• Not clear that Victoria is part of Manchester;

• Captions are ranged left or right when centring would be more appropriate;

• Some stations have suffixes (Wigan North Western, Liverpool South Parkway) while some don't (Lime Street, Glasgow Central).

They've gone geographic.

And added smaller stations that hardly see any trains. In a tiny point size that takes a lot of zooming in on a computer - unreadable on paper. For example Rotherham sees one train a day in one direction. Without complete analysis I also notice they've left out Althorpe.

Badly photographed. But a lot of progress was made in three years.

These two maps interestingly have the 3-letter station code. But is Manchester Piccadilly station two stations?

Out-of-date - no longer runs via Warrington and no Ordsall chord.

The central core part of the closure could have been larger with TransPennine Exresses extremities reduced. Some curves would have made the WCML diversionary route better looking and that white vertical