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Submission – Fantasy Map: Future Southeast Asia Rail Map by James Clark

November 7, 2016

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Asia, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, James Clark, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nomadic Notes, passenger rail, Philippines, rail map, Singapore, South East Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

Submitted by James, who says: Hi Cam, love your site! I’ve been studying future railways of Southeast Asia, in particular the Kunming to Singapore line via Laos, which will begin construction in December. I’ve created a map of every proposed railway in Southeast Asia: The details of all the proposed lines can be found on my Nomadic Notes website. Transit Maps says: This is obviously a labour of love from James, and it shows. Lots […]

Historical Map: French SNCF Rail Network, 1976 by Rudi Meyer

October 10, 2016

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1976, Europe, France, Lyon, Paris, passenger rail, Rudi Meyer, SNCF, TGV

Via long-time correspondent and fellow map-maker Andrew Smithers (check out his Project Mapping website if you haven’t done it yet!) comes this superb diagram of mainline rail services in 1976 France. It was created by famed Swiss designer Rudi Meyer, who was also responsible for the original – and very distinctive – Paris RER map in 1977-1978. The map is certainly very striking, using a bold blue and green colour palette and minimal distractions from […]

Project: Amtrak as Subway Map (revised)

September 14, 2016

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Adobe Illustrator, Amtrak, Cameron Booth, graphic design, passenger rail, USA

One of my longest-running projects is a subway diagram-styled map of Amtrak’s passenger rail network, with the original version dating back to 2010. I always made sure to update it regularly over the years, adding and deleting stations to keep it current. In April last year, I attempted to update the design of the map as well, although I ended up trying a few too many overly-clever things with it – overlaying lines on top of […]

Submission – Idealised Edinburgh Tramways Map, c.1940s by Andy Arthur

September 13, 2016

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1940s, 1950s, Andy Arthur, British Rail, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Corporation Tramways, Europe, passenger rail, Scotland, streetcar, submission, tram, United Kingdom

Submitted by Andy, who says: Hi, I recently got a bit over-fascinated and nostalgic about the old tramways network of Edinburgh and decided it would be fun to plot out a schematic routemap of the old system as it never quite was at some point in the late 1940s. I also had a little bit of fun trying to make it look like it just might have come out of the Corporation Tramways Department, even […]

Submission – Unofficial Future Map: Connecticut Rail by Nick Fabiani

August 17, 2016

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Amtrak, Bridgeport, bus, commuter rail, Connecticut, CT Fastrack, CT Rail, Metro North, New Haven, Nick Fabiani, passenger rail, Roboto, USA

Long-time readers might remember Nick’s fantasy Connecticut transit system (April 2015), so it’s nice to see a new “companion piece” from him that reflects the real world situation of the not-too-distant future when the Hartford Line opens in early 2018. As most of the rail in Connecticut runs along the chiefly east-west Northeast Corridor, Nick has come up with the rather clever idea of rotating the whole map 30 degrees counter-clockwise, which allows him to […]

New Project/Work-in-Progress – Historical Map: Streetcar Lines of Portland, Oregon, 1920

July 23, 2016

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1920, Cameron Booth, commuter rail, Kenton Traction Company, Oregon, Oregon Electric, passenger rail, Portland, Portland Railway Light & Power Company, PRL&P, Southern Pacific, streetcar, United Railway, USA, work in progress

Despite Portland once having one of the largest streetcar networks in the United States, finding reliable, empirical information about it is surprisingly difficult. Books about the history of the streetcar – like Richard Thompson’s series of books or John Labbe’s Fares Please! – tend to be more photographs and captions than exhaustive detail, internet sources are incomplete and at times contradictory, and even contemporaneous sources are frustratingly incorrect. A much-referenced Pittmon map of streetcar lines […]

Submission – Official Map: Multimodal Transit Map for Utrecht, The Netherlands by Jug Cerovic

July 15, 2016

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4 stars, bus, Europe, Houten, Jug Cerovic, passenger rail, submission, The Netherlands, tram, U OV, Utrecht

Submitted by the author, who says: Dear Cameron, You’ll be happy to hear that my Luxembourg map is having a beneficial influence on the neighbouring communities. U-OV, the company operating buses and trams in Utrecht, Netherlands, recently commissioned me to build a new map for Utrecht based on the previous Luxembourg experience. This gave me the opportunity to explore all concepts further and since this week the new map is official and live 🙂 Here […]

Poster: JR East “Slow Train, Slow Life” Campaign, 2016

July 12, 2016

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advertising, Asia, illustration, Japan, JR East, passenger rail, Philippe Weisbecker, poster, slow train

Now this I love! One of a series of posters celebrating the more relaxed pace of life along the northeast branch lines of JR East’s network in Japan. The posters are a collaborative effort led by artist Philippe Weisbecker, who has integrated (pretty detailed!) children’s drawings into the designs. Source: JR East poster website via Taras Grescoe/Twitter

Future Fantasy Map: Consolidated Bay Area Rapid Transit, 2050 by Adam Susaneck

June 22, 2016

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2050, Adam Susaneck, BART, Bay Area, California, Caltrain, commuter rail, heavy rail, high speed rail, light rail, Muni, Oakland, passenger rail, San Francisco, San Jose, Silicon Valley, VTA

Here at Transit Maps, we see quite a few unified Bay Area maps. It seems that that the fractured nature of all the different transit agencies in the area seems to frustrate quite a few people, which drives them to try and make something better. The latest is this effort by Adam Susaneck, showing what things could look like in 2050 or so in a perfect world. It’s impeccably researched – head on over to […]

Historical Maps: Australian Interstate Passenger Rail Schematics, November 1983

June 21, 2016

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1983, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Australia, Brisbane, diagram, Melbourne, passenger rail, Perth, Sydney, The Ghan, timetable

Here’s a couple of neat timetable/route diagrams for Interstate passenger rail services in Australia back in 1983. The first shows westbound services from Sydney, the other shows the corresponding return journeys. Differing rail gauges and immense distances have always made interstate rail travel a difficult prospect in Australia, hence the paucity of services even 30-odd years ago (only three Sydney-Melbourne trains a day and just one daily Sydney-Brisbane service). Source: Image 1 and Image 2 […]