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RailMaps Site Reviews and feedback:Network Rail Magazine, April 1997 A colourful site entirely about rail in Australia. The home page features a large map of Australia with links to the greater detail of train services nationally and in major cities. The site directs you to the main rail provider in the State you are interested in and provides links to useful sites with information about each capital city.Netweek Magazine - 1st issue, September 1999 Excellent interactive map displaying metropolitan, rural and interstate railways throughout Australia, along with tram/light rail systems, and selected ferry/catamaran services. Includes regional rail news updates and fares and ticketing information. Australian Map Circle Newsletter No 80 - March 2000. Excellent site covering the whole country, showing passenger trains, suburban and intercity, ferries, airport shuttles, tourist railways etc, with frequencies, some timetable information and much more. Check out the Melbourne city map for its veritable cornucopia of information. Beats the London Tube map hands down. One of my favourite sites, and frequently updated. Sydney Morning Herald - Saturday 2nd June 2001This super-helpful and informative hub appears to be the work of a rail transport enthusiast who has put together details of every local and national train service around the country. It's very easy to explore with point and click navigation that provides regional overviews or more localised information. So you'll have no trouble finding what you're looking for - be it suburban services in Adelaide or the twice-weekly rattler in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Subject: praise and comment From: Joe Brennan Date: 4:12pm 12/1/2002 I just stumbled across Australian Rail Maps, and I want to tell you I am really impressed with organization and the graphics. Well done. I'd love to see this done for parts of the world closer to me. There's one little thing, that viewed on my Macintosh the text is both very tiny and misshapen. It's from a css stylesheet so I can't see how it's coded, but it doesn't let me change the font or size, so I'm pretty frustrated looking at things besides the maps. I'm attaching part of a screenshot to show what it looks like to me.
(You might like to see my New York Subway Diagram at http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/subway/ showing some small work
I've done along similar lines.)
Subject: Your Website From: Peter Castle Date: 10:22pm 20/6/2002
Let me congratulate you on a truly excellent website!
Subject: Your Website From: Dion Riverlea Date: 8:41pm 21/10/2002 I commend you for an excellent site. I printed out most of your maps about 2 years back, and have just gone through the exercise again: more thoroughly this time. This makes an excellent schematic Railway Atlas of Australia. The representation of service frequencies, ranging from 40+ per hour (in the case of trams down Swanston St. Melbourne) to once or twice a week out in the sticks is excellent. Anyone with half a brain can look at your maps and get a very specific impression of the overall density of passenger rail traffic across the entire continent. I noticed in particular prior to my second printing of your maps tonight that you had improved the colour balance of the rather complex Melbourne & Sydney Maps (saving me quite a bit of cyan & magenta ink!). The previous version, on my printer, made Zone 2 of the Metcard system look like an arm of Bass Strait. I also noted that you had added goods lines to most of your maps (I look forward to you updating your Queensland maps). I grew up as the son of a railwayman (a chemist, not an engine-driver) and for many years could probably have cited the names of every railway station in Victoria: and put it in its appropriate place on the network. I could still faithfully draw the network at its greatest extent. These days when I look at my ageing atlases, I wonder what is still alive and functioning, and what exactly has been converted to Standard Gauge: your maps certainly helped, which is why I printed them out again. I also found a few branch-lines I didn't know about in the Pilbara. Yours, Dion Riverlea Subject: Congratulations From: Gareth Powell Date: 5:24pm 29/3/2003 I do not know who is responsible for this site but they have my sincere congratulations. It is a masterpiece of clarity and ease of use. Gareth Powell Comments and feedback: email Australian Rail Maps |