Jimm
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Joined: 7/27/2006 From: York, UK Status: offline
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United Kingdom - note corrected rail lines Yes, and they're not right. The LMS express should go directly to Glasgow, not via Edinburgh. The correction here is to change the mountain hex Newcastle 1W - it should connect to Glasgow and to the hex marked "Pennines", but not to Edinburgh. The connection to Newcastle is optional - there certainly is a line along the English side of the border, but it's pretty minor; if such lines were represented elsewhere in England, then almost every hex would connect to every other. First, thanks for the feedback. About this, well, the UK is a place where the MWiF map is nearly verbatim the WiF FE map. Only a couple of areas on the border of the map were changed (very slightly) in some remote places. I think that editing UK is out of the picture. This said, the railways of this map may not be as bad as they seem, especially if one consider that the hexagon is 70-80 km across, and considering also that the program has the railway automaticaly converge to cities when there is a city in the hex. So, a railway may seem to go through a city when in reality if only passes 70 km from it. If you look at the attached illustration, it shows what I mean, by comparing the WiF FE map (left) the the MWiF map (right). On the left, we see that the railway indeed pretty much go directly to Glasgow without going through Edinburgh. On the right, we see that the program has the railway going through Edinburgh automaticaly. quote:
I'm assuming that the odd shape to the lines around Liverpool and Manchester is because of the automatic drawing being done; if anyone is creating a permanent printed copy, then all the railway lines need reworking to match their real shapes. I suspect the same is true of the rivers. The river between Hull and Sheffield is the "Humber" if someone wants to mark it. Not much room to write anything here. Also, this is not a river hexside per see on the map. I've posted re UK railways fairly recently, thanks Patrice for correcting the East/west Coast Mainline! As poster states up to 1950s the UK was so heavily railed in comparison with rest of world there is almost a case to have a rail line linking every hex. (post Beeching & British Rail now we Brits stand in splendid- if overcrowded- isolation and marvel at european rail excellence...)
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