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I note (“London Centric”) with interest that the main beneficiary of the tube strikes was Uber (company, not drivers) as they “flexed” their prices higher to take advantage of the increased demand. Perhaps the fares were 50% higher this week?
Given the renationalisation of all the franchises, it is hard to understand the rationale for a single operator map. This is particularly true in the case of Northern where services are frequently interleaved with those operated by Trans Pennine Express. This comes out, for example, where the map fails to show that there is a rail link between Stalybridge and Manchester Piccadilly, simply because it is a TPE service not a Northern service. A rail map for the North would be helpful, but not just one for Northern trains.
@quinlet Good point.
The Tube map omits services within the Zones from C2C, the New Barnet line, the old Northern City Line, Finsbury Park to Hadley Wood, and to Crews Hill, HS1 to Stratford International, the Tottenham Hale to Cheshunt, the Southeastern “Network” , the Southern “Network”, the South West Rail “Network” and the Heathrow, Luton and Gatwick Expresses.
The “excuse” for this is the Tube map is the extent of the TfL charging area.
B B & others …
Oh dear
Right there, on the TfL main map web-page is this one:
https://content.tfl.gov.uk/london-rail-and-tube-services-map.pdf
ALL the rail services in the London area
The question is – why do so few people seem to realise that it exists, given the ease of public access to it?
@Greg T
Good question.
I expect the the answer – given that it has been around for decades – that TfL promote their “Tube Map” over this one. It’s the one on the national TV Siddy Holloway and Tim Dunn’s Secrets of the London Underground show uses, the one the London Transport Museum uses, outside London and the UK it is the Tube Map that is famous.
The TFL Go app only shows the Tube Map (Underground, Overground, Liz, DLR and Trams) which are the services that the GLA has direct control over.
It might also be that the “commuter” services of Southeastern , the Southern and South West Rail are much less intense than the Overground. Or that these (1990s to date) private companies make their money from long-distance inter-city travel and support these GLA-area stations with lower priority.
I can’t recall being in the control room for one of these train companies that gave their London Commuter sections any kind of “priority”.
@Brian Butterworth, Greg T
There was also the London Connections map (no relation to LR) that was around for many years, which now seems to be the London Rail and Tube Services Map… I always use this one for journey planning, as it’s complete. Unfortunately it’s not sufficiently promoted, or even printed out anymore.