Re: Routeing guide again - Stalybridge - Doncaster.

John Salmon wrote:

> "John Salmon" wrote
>> "Chris Tolley" wrote
>>> Off the top of my head, I thought that it would be valid to take a train
>>> from Stalybridge to Leeds, and then Leeds to Doncaster, but the routeing
>>> guide does not offer that route. (It offers either maps GM+PS or MR+PS
>>> or WK). The combination maps suggest a route via Manchester and
>>> Sheffield and the single map is SYB-HUD-WKF-DON.
>>
>> In the light of that, what is *really* odd is that Stalybridge to Retford
>> via Leeds and Doncaster *is* valid, using ER+WY.  Incidentally, I had some
>> difficulty in displaying map WY, as the list on my screen only went as far
>> as WX - I had to open another map then change the URL.
>
> I've just been having a closer look at map WY, and it has a couple of
> oddities.  It purports to show "Local routes in West Yorkshire", which
> Stalybridge isn't so presumably it was added to the map for some specific
> (but not readily apparent) reason.  And Bradford to Hellifield is
> specifically shown to be via a line which avoids Shipley - but the latter
> has platforms on all three sides of the triangular layout, with no obvious
> way of avoiding the station.

I think that pretty much every time I have looked at any of these maps,
I have noticed something or other that seems strange to me. For
instance. I was looking at PS, which is entitled "Lancashire and
Cheshire to Lincolnshire and the East Midlands", and it is missing one
(for me) obvious route that fits that description, namely Crewe-Derby.


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