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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Look! Sectretary of Transport using my map!

Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If anyone what's a copy of our nerdy book on train maps, Waterstones are are offering 25% off on preorders for just a few days, thats £18.75 instead of £25! Just search for Mapping Britain's Railways on Waterstones website and apply the code at check out.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

New Singapore map with completed Circle line as of July 2026.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

All Project maps (recently removed from NRE site) still available at www.projectmapping.co.uk/index.html Updates show new Lumo London to Stirling service, Camp Hill line, WMM to Millennium Point, …/2

projectmapping.co.uk

Project Mapping - UK and worldwide rail / train schematic maps

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

…/2 Portishead and Henbury lines and Oakhampton Interchange under construction, new limited LNR Walsall - London service, Northumberland Park, Bedlington, Magna and Cambridge South stations open.

projectmapping.co.uk

Project Mapping - UK and worldwide rail / train schematic maps

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Liverpool South Parkway (with AWC now calling) joins Lime Street and Edinburgh for the most number of operators calling - 7 each.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

New official map of the British national rail network - plus others at www.nationalrail.co.uk/travel-infor...

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

For UK and other maps printed on all sorts of substrates its not to late to get your Christmas gift! www.redbubble.com/people/mrmap...

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Latest Singapore MRT & LRT map incorporating updates suggests by respondents. As TransitMaps says: "The repeating loop motif is deftly executed and provides the 'visual hook' a good transit map needs: the design element that ties the whole thing together as a pleasing whole."

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Latest Singapore MRT/LRT map with recently announced new lines around Changai Airport terminal 5. The Thomson East Coat line will take over the East West Line Airport branch to Tanah Merah.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It’s just rubbish, needs a completely new design (either of Max Roberts or Cam Booth would do). Kings Cross St Pancras wrong too as the Thameslink platforms are St Pancras only. Our great capital city is let down by this rubbish cartography.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Nice as always! How you getting on with London - we need your original thinking…

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Not very impressed by Gareth’s explanation that it didn’t matter that the GWR electrification was too large (commentators quipped you could tie container ships to it) because the steel was a tiny part of the total cost. It was another OLE engineering mistake like headspans on the east coast.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Cross Country train taking the Stafford route at Stone Junction.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

In addition to previous updates, map now with Leven - Glenrothes with Thornton shown as a full service and XC Edinburgh-Aberdeen shown as limited - checked due to the last Aberdeen-Penzance train on the media this morning! www.projectmapping.co.uk/Resources/TO...

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Latest all stations GB rail map. Hi-rez pdf at www.projectmapping.co.uk/Resources/TO... Added limited service GWR to Pembroke and Thameslink to Victoria Made TPX Redcar - Saltburn limited service St Denys, Bitterne, Sholing, Bursledon and Hamble removed from Southern Spot anything else?

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Thought I'd show this version of the design of the British national rail map: youtu.be/BhNGJF37FyA A version is also on Geoff Marshalls video from 3 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXE6...

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How the national rail map design evolved

YouTube video by MrHappyMappy

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Updated Birmingham West Midlands train map with corrections supplied by Bluesky proofreaders! Many thanks... www.projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Reso...

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Latest Birmingham West Midlands map with Camp Hill line and Wrexham Shropshire & Midland Railway planned new services. Birmingham in a circle to show city centre stations without repetition. Shows all rail and tram stations. www.projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Reso...

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Two terrible logos / symbols. What happened to good design in the railways ?

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Tube & Rail map along side a Tube map. Which one would you use, never mind you’d have to stoop to see High Barnet.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Look at the detail in this London Rail map (unknown designer on Reddit), very interesting indeed. Look at the Sutton loop, lovely. (Many similarities with my Project Mapping design however...) Hi-rez: www.projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Reso...

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I got all excited when Euston Films asked if they could use my map in Nightsleeper, but was slightly disappointed in its minimal appearance!

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

What’s with all the ‘Towards…’ on London Transport wayfinding, what’s wrong with ‘To’? (Never mind two of those bifurcations going the wrong way!)

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Latest London rail map from Quickmap. Will be doing more on Blkuesky, come across...

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Thought I'd put this up, designed a while ago, done in response to WMTs map. And for Christmas, Bluesky users! Let there be more of us. (Surprised BlueSky doesn't have a mid word capital.) Merry Christmas!

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Great replica of a Leslie Green tube station.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Try again, reduced size and more jpg - 8mb

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Try again, uploading using image button instead of dragging and dropping.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

And trying again. File size now down from 20mb to 11, see if BlueSky can handle that.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Try again at posting this map.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

New, carefully crafted, London tube & rail map in the style of Paris by Abraham Dein. Pdf at projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Reso...

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

All UK and GB maps updated to reflect the December 15th timetable change, mainly withdrawal of the LNER services to Glasgow and Sunderland and the opening of the Ashington line. projectmapping.co.uk

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

For UK and other maps printed on all sorts of substrates its not to late to get your Christmas gift! www.redbubble.com/people/mrmap...

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Well spotted Cam! Lean to the right, lean to the left, like politics. The unopened lines look like Becks sketches. You get a mess like this when someone alters someone else’s work and doesn’t understand it. Three blobs at Central, four lines. Should have had a rework, easy on such a simple system.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Ashington line could probably be straight from just east of Ventral if some stations were closed up on that northern loop.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

New Nexus map with Network Rail Ashington and Sunderland lines. But no line to Metro Centre.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Two Peterborough’s Grand Central?

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Need to do a bit more posting!

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

One of Becks hand drawn designs on show at the Map House exhibition threading the Victoria line through. My first maps were hand drawn, then the Apple Mac came along…

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•transitscapes• @transitscapes.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

• r a i l w a y s • u n d e r • l o n d o n • • a children book by marie neurath • published by max parrish | london 1948 • from the 'otto and marie neurath isotype collection' | typography department university of reading • archive.org/details/mari... #londonunderground #illustration

The image, titled "A Station Beneath a Station," illustrates a cross-section of a three-level transportation hub. At street level, a main-line train station is shown with surrounding buildings, a double-decker bus, a car, and pedestrians. Below, a high-level underground station is connected via elevators and stairs to the low-level tube station at the deepest level. Red train carriages are visible on each underground level, highlighting the comprehensive transportation network.

The image is a vintage-style illustration titled "A Platform Built for Speed." It depicts a train approaching a station on a slight incline, which helps it slow down. The platform design includes signs like "Way Out," "Piccadilly" station, and a "Next Train" indicator showing "Rayners Lane." The image highlights the layout and signage that guide passengers efficiently. The design aims to enhance passenger navigation with clear, informative indicators and a well-structured platform.

The image is a vintage-style illustration showing the process of cutting tunnels for trains. In the top half, a man stands inside a large shield, resembling an apple corer, using a pick to cut through the earth. The cylindrical shield has mechanical components. In the bottom half, the same man is seen pushing a cart filled with excavated material away from the cutting edge of the shield. The text explains that tunnels are cut by shields like huge apple corers, with a man using a pick to create a large hole in the earth.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Cross platform interchange from the Victoria line is with the Bank branch of the Northern line, if one mistakenly thought the interconnectors and interchange blobs meant anything you’d think it was with the Charing Cross branch.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Ditto, great to see actual printed maps and Beck’s sketches. Crazy prices on some of them - I saw £75,000! There was a standard poster map going for £2500 that I had on my wall as a kid, got thrown away…

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Must be the most exciting transit map of the year.

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Couple of examples of cased lines touching (Watford line, Liverpool Street) on this 2021 TfL map (date unclear), but they stopped this practice and they’re now separated. Even though the Watford line trains run on the same tracks! projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Reso...

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Andrew Smithers @mrmappy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Inconsistent typography, dash only on the right. (I can spot a double word space at 100 yards.)

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