An alternative canal map

[Gordon Chesterman]

I wonder if Beck would have ever finished his first map of the London Underground had his drafts been subjected to such thorough scrutiny by the 'Underground World Discussion Forum'...?!

[stuart]

That maps lovely!

 

If you produce it in a graphic app, save it as a PDF so it can be scaled to any size you want.

 

If you want posters produced, try this place http://www.amc-photographics.com/

 

Only £6 for an A1 print (thats big!)

[steelaway]

I have quickly sketched out some basics of a much larger scale version - at around a3 size at 300dpi I hope.

Is anyone who is likely to be able to print at that size able to check to see if the quality is good enough - rather than me complete the whole thing and not really get anywhere with it!

 

I have uploaded it elsewhere as obviously the file size is considerably larger now:

 

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/7523/trial.png

 

 

Hi

 

It seems to have failed to copy all the detail - Thanks for trying

 

Alex

[carlt]

Hi

 

It seems to have failed to copy all the detail - Thanks for trying

 

Alex

He didn't mean to!

 

It's just a sample to see if someone can print it off, A3, to make sure it looks ok.

[mayalld]

That maps lovely!

 

If you produce it in a graphic app, save it as a PDF so it can be scaled to any size you want.

 

If you want posters produced, try this place http://www.amc-photographics.com/

 

Only £6 for an A1 print (thats big!)

 

Hmm, looks like acandidate for the big plotter!

[Chagall]

I have quickly sketched out some basics of a much larger scale version - at around a3 size at 300dpi I hope.

Is anyone who is likely to be able to print at that size able to check to see if the quality is good enough - rather than me complete the whole thing and not really get anywhere with it!

 

I have uploaded it elsewhere as obviously the file size is considerably larger now:

 

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/7523/trial.png

 

 

Yep, it prints out fine at A3 tafkam, and in fact the resolution is good and so it can go bigger....

[tafkam]

I've now finished what I think is the network outline at that larger scale. I haven't added any labelling as yet, nor all of the markers.

 

I have changed from using the circular intersection symbol at all junctions, to using it only where there is an interchange between two 'different' canals. How do folk feel about this? I fear the original method showed rather a lot of black circles, but does this method leaves the junctions a little too unclear?

 

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3779/trialg.png

[the grinch]

why is there a triangular junction on the leicester section?

[the grinch]

Foxton Locks and Foxton Inclined Plane?

 

if so then the plane has been restored in my abscence

and the angle it joins the harborough branch is wrong

[tafkam]

The latest update:

 

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7523/trial.png

 

Hopefully including most advised changes, and all end-points and canal junctions.

 

Now just to place intermediate towns, etc. and complete the key.

[Albion]

The latest update:

 

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7523/trial.png

 

Hopefully including most advised changes, and all end-points and canal junctions.

 

Now just to place intermediate towns, etc. and complete the key.

 

An observation from the previous smaller version. Skipton, on the L&L, was too close to Leeds. In reality it is not too far from Gargrave.

Roger

[Magpie Val]

And one person's response to TFL's attitude:

 

 

Full story here:

 

Clicky

 

I love this - and Magpie Patrick has pointed the "station" names out to me as well

[Top cat]

Tafkam thats BRILLIANT Thanks

 

TC

[tafkam]

Hopefully now complete:

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4315/fullscalecanalmap.png

And no updates for a while as we're off on a hire for a few days!

 

By all means copy it and use it as you will - unless you're making money, in which case I want a cut

 

Tafkam

[GeoffS]

Just a couple of minor things. On your key you have 'Trent and Merset'.

 

Should the junction on the T&M at Stoke be on to the Caldon canal and therefore be another colour?

[tafkam]

Just a couple of minor things. On your key you have 'Trent and Merset'.

Oops! Yes, I'll correct that.

Should the junction on the T&M at Stoke be on to the Caldon canal and therefore be another colour?

Eek, yes! Another colour to find. I'll see what I can do!

 

Has anyone managed to print out a large-scale version yet? How does it look?

[mayalld]

Eek, yes! Another colour to find. I'll see what I can do!

 

The Caldon is a branch of the T&M.

[stewey]

Hi Tafkam

 

Hope you have had an enjoyable few days on the canals.

 

Just one thing - should not the Mon & Brec be shown as Brecon to Cwmbran rather than Newport as this is the current southern limit of navigation. Perhaps you could link Cymbran with Newport with a dotted line to show that this section is (hopefully) going to be restored? Of course this would raise the problem that other people would want to see their canal restoration project eg Cotswold Canals or Lichfield & Hatherton Canals shown in a similar way!

 

Great map - keep up the good work.

 

Stewey

[Tim Lewis]

Oops! Yes, I'll correct that.

 

Eek, yes! Another colour to find. I'll see what I can do!

 

Has anyone managed to print out a large-scale version yet? How does it look?

 

 

Just printed it at A1 on my plotter at work and the qulity is excellent! - can send you one if you waould like.

 

Just a couple of comments:

 

I would have pointed the Runcorn Arm at the MSC rather than the Weaver

 

The key states that a Circle is a Canal Junction but you have several on River Junctions (Hull, Avonmouth, Weybridge, Tewkesbury etc - perhaps 'Waterway Junction'

 

You have the Junction with the Regents and the Thames as Limehouse Basin whereas I would j=have thought that Limehouse is a more acxcurate description.

 

Just my two pennuth

 

Tim

[tafkam]

The Caldon is a branch of the T&M.

 

The conclusion my own research had just led me to. Phew!

Edited August 17, 2009 by tafkam

[barge sara]

I'm sure you've landed yourself with a never-ending project here!

 

Just a couple of comments to consider for your next version:

 

River Ouse (Yorkshire) - At a point a couple of miles upstream from York the River Ouse becomes the Ure Navigation.

- The last few miles to Ripon are the Ripon Canal, a canal in its own right and not a navigable river. - another colour to find?

River Ancholme is navigable for 17 miles south from junction with the Humber, between Hull and Trent Falls.

Market Weighton Canal runs north from the same section of the Humber. Still navigable if EA can be persuaded to work the lock.

The Quarry branch off the L&L at Skipton.

The Glasson Branch off the Lancaster has 6(?) locks, a sizeable marina and a connection to the sea.

 

With apologies!

John

MV Sara

[tafkam]

Just printed it at A1 on my plotter at work and the qulity is excellent! - can send you one if you waould like.

 

Just a couple of comments:

 

I would have pointed the Runcorn Arm at the MSC rather than the Weaver

 

The key states that a Circle is a Canal Junction but you have several on River Junctions (Hull, Avonmouth, Weybridge, Tewkesbury etc - perhaps 'Waterway Junction'

 

You have the Junction with the Regents and the Thames as Limehouse Basin whereas I would j=have thought that Limehouse is a more acxcurate description.

 

Just my two pennuth

 

Tim

 

All changes I agree with, and will make!

[MartinClark]

The Quarry branch off the L&L at Skipton.

This is usually called "The Springs Branch".

 

I understand that a local freight railway line is sometimes called "The Quarry Branch".

[Guest]

This is usually called "The Springs Branch".

 

I understand that a local freight railway line is sometimes called "The Quarry Branch".

 

It was to a quarry originally though wasn't it??

 

You are correct though I know it as the Springs branch

[Albion]

It was to a quarry originally though wasn't it??

 

You are correct though I know it as the Springs branch

 

Not exactly to the quarry. It runs to just underneath the castle walls. There was a tramway from the quarry which was quite a bit further on. The stone was brought down the tramway and tipped down chutes (the remains of which are still there) straight into the waiting boats below which must have been quite noisy overall and dangerous for those boats that had thin baseplates I would have thought. It is quite a fall for the stone from the top of the chutes.

Roger