Crossing Lights
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Cityscape art and railway maps! Profile art by @soapai.bsky.social !
A jaunt to Melbourne for Valentine's Day! I am infatuated by the Met's '80s bumblebee mascot.
NSW regional transport map from a very charming 1988 State Rail brochure!
Scanning some vintage maps that I've collected! Starting with the 1969 Department of Railways map of Sydney's suburban railways:
Sydney, November 2019 A Blade Runner-inspired Sydney I drew a few years ago!
Some small updates to the 'minimalist' version of my Sydney map -- just getting some more satisfying alignments between the western branches! The Western and Richmond lines are now the same length west of Blacktown, as are the Leppington and South lines from Glenfield.
A fantastic update and rundown of this line's route and context, end-to-end! Here is my diagram of how PLR2 will fit in with the wider network and other ongoing rail projects -- when all's finished, it'll work hand-in-hand with the Metro West line:
Thank you very much! And thanks for the suggestion with the line colours -- I've now made that change!
A map in my style showing the late 2040s Sydney network, based on the recent leaked TfNSW diagram!
Just noticed I've accidentally left out East Richmond and Leightonfield here -- the perils of using an 86 year old map as reference! 😭
Sydney's current (well, near-future) rail network in the style of the 1939-1953 Beck-style pocket map!
Recoloured my map to mimic the visual styles of the 1998-2004 and the 2004-2013 CityRail maps! The colours of the 2004- map especially gives me such a nostalgic feeling
The Beck-inspired era of Sydney transit maps was followed by the introduction of a very '70s, Vignelli-esque look that I am obsessed with. The dark-theme 1979 diagram made by the PTC for the opening of Martin Place Station is a big influence on my main personal map project!
A great article that traces the early development of Sydney's transit maps, with a lot of interesting examples! The influence of Beck's design style up until the 70s was a big inspiration for my own 2020s TfL-style Sydney map.
I've had the occassional comment that my map contains information aimed at transit fans that may make it more difficult for the average viewer to follow -- so I had a go at making a pared-back version! Only showing the information present on the current official maps (more or less):
Yes, it's a double harpoon symbol that I'm using to denote to/from destinations 😅