Re: Railway map of Victoria online

[David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>]

John Dennis wrote:

> Quite a neat map, although it is the first map of Victoria I have ever
> seen without any geographic features at all - such as the coast or the
> Murray River.  Seeing Port Fairy without any coastline nearby certainly
> looked strange.  Colour coding the opening dates is a good idea.

I think that a coast line and a river, up the top somewhere, would give some
perspective to the railway lines. My criticism is your use of "Old". All the
stations you show as such were never known as e.g. Old Tallangatta. Now
before you have a go at me, I realise that you are trying to indicate where
the e.g. former Tallangatta station was, but I suggest that you use the term
- Tallangatta (1st) and Tallangatta (2nd) or similar. This would remove the
confusion currently caused by your map. Remember that a lot of the posters
to this ng are not (apparently) historically minded and we do not wish to
start any new theories about name changes in Victoria.

David Langley.