[Talk-GB] [Talk-transit] Mapping train services in Great Britain

[Dave F]

What's wrong with consulting a timetable?

Maps show you where you can go, timetables tell you when .

DaveF

On 01/06/2021 01:18, Michael Tsang wrote:
> > I think you are missing the point that GB is not a city.
>
> > Cities are densly pack and urban transport systems reflect this. In
> London tube trains simply stop at every station.
>
> > This structure will not work when it comes to rural stations, and what
> we have works very well. It would not be efficient to stop every trains
> at stations which only have a few dozen passengers in a day.
>
> Other European countries are doing it much better. The routes are 
> numbered. There are designated express services with stops only in big 
> cities. The rural stations have only local stopping services which 
> call at every stop en-route.
>
> We don't even have a useful route map from train companies that can 
> work out which train I should take without consulting the timetable.
>
>
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