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Can we have them for all major interchanges, please?
Useful for everyone, in fact.
@Greg T
We’re working on it for all National Rail owned stations. They are all in final testing.
@BB GregT They forgot to include the maps in the press release. The example for Brighton I pulled up is a jpg from fabdigital, it’s a station plan with cubes instead of rectangles? I was expecting 3D fly-throughs for evaluating steps and ramp steepness.
More than a decade ago, there used be excellent and VERY detailed photographs showing the actual layout of many/most stations including ramps and steps (numbers of steps and gaps were itemised), based on hovering over a particular section of a 2-dimensional map on the NRE website. Unfortunately, the photos are no longer there; presumably, NR and/or TOCs are no longer doing sufficiently regular audits/photography to keep the info up to date? That system was brilliant, realistic, and showed how things REALLY were with uncanny accuracy (although it was fun to try and spot a bench that had been moved or repainted a different colour since the photographs had been taken). But now we are supposed to be grateful for a limited number of flashy diagrams that were doubtless more expensive to make and doubtless going to become out of date much sooner…
Yes, I liked those in-station photos. Waverley is a confusing place to get around, and it was very useful to be able to plan a specific route from point to point in advance, with confidence that, no matter how busy, the reality would look like what had already been seen.
@Greg T
@anon
If you go to networkrail.co.uk and pick “our stations” and under National stations pick one each has a “Interactive station map”. I have links I could post for all 20 we’ve done but WordPress would block them.
Feedback is always welcome.
@BB NR site says they manage 20 stations. Had a look at Liv St, I guess it shows how to navigate the terminus. Why not invite Google street view inside? After-hours they could walk through all the corridors and gates.
TfL listened –
Stations that now have Google Street View:
Westminster, Baker Street, Oxford Circus, Canada Water, Bank, Monument, Embankment
Bond Street, Euston Square, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon, Old Street, Whitechapel
Custom House, Tottenham Hale, London Bridge, Cannon Street, Charing Cross
Google Street View will be available before the end of the year:
Canning Town, Camden Town, Stratford, South Kensington, Hammersmith (District & Piccadilly), Hammersmith (Hammersmith & City Line), Moorgate, Highbury & Islington
King’s Cross St. Pancras, Victoria Station, Waterloo, Paddington, Euston, Liverpool Street
Clapham Junction, Canary Wharf, Green Park
One omission already identified for a fix is that navigating with the lift requires the user to hunt around the map to locate the next part of the journey, this will be remedied so that it is possible to ride the lift.
Link to article with more detail coming in tomorrow’s Friday Reads. LBM