Sunday 16 May 2010

Small changes




So! Back to the Newcastle Metro!
This has been a long time in the making due to life commitments more important than my strange little interest.

There are very few changes to this map, just the addition of Ryton onto the blue line- whilst the blue line in general before was an 'easy extension' which just involved improving already existing railway tracks with a extra lane or two this addition involves a bit of actual new track. Though not much. Just a divergance from the Carlisle line to go closer to the town centre and give this large town access to the network.

Also planned for this edit was incorporating the local railway into the map.
I had the idea that local rail routes should be given far greater public attention, as things stand now its just as hard to get a train from Newcastle to Prudhoe as it is to go all the way down to London. These local routes should be given a unified branding and tied in very closely with the metro- all trains from Hexham, Pegswood and Ashington in should unquestionably be given this system. This would largely I'd imagine take the form of just better awareness and integrated pricing with the existing trains however for some routes a 'semi-metro' could be useful- with Ashington in particular I would lean this way, its a bit too far away for the proper metro however it does deserve regular service when it gets its railway connection opened.
In the south this link should go to Durham at the least however the government has made many rumblings recently about a better north east railway line connecting Teeside and Tyne and Wear- this sounds good to me so I would also integrate to a degree down to Middlesbrough on both the Durham-Darlington-Boro line and the Sunderland-Peterlee (which needs a station! That a town this big on a railway line doesn't is very odd)- Hartlepool-Boro line.

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