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Andrew Smithers

@mrmappy.bsky.social

Fell in love with the tube map as a youngster in London - love the thrill of designing rail diagrams. https://projectmapping.co.uk Shop for printed maps at: http://redbubble.com/people/MrMappy…

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Latest posts by mrmappy.bsky.social on Bluesky

It can’t be Tower Bridge?

14.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm thinking that RA2 is a bit light.
But that interesting symbol on the Clapham Junction sign - not seen it before and not in my Network Rail station symbols collection: www.projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/stat...
Is it the Thames and Battersea power station?

03.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Latest Singapore MRT & LRT map incorporating updates suggests by respondents. As TransitMaps says: "The repeating loop motif is deftly executed and provides the 'visual hook' a good transit map needs: the design element that ties the whole thing together as a pleasing whole."

29.09.2025 10:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No. 2.

25.09.2025 08:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Latest Singapore MRT/LRT map with recently announced new lines around Changai Airport terminal 5. The Thomson East Coat line will take over the East West Line Airport branch to Tanah Merah.

28.07.2025 11:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s just rubbish, needs a completely new design (either of Max Roberts or Cam Booth would do). Kings Cross St Pancras wrong too as the Thameslink platforms are St Pancras only. Our great capital city is let down by this rubbish cartography.

20.06.2025 10:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice as always! How you getting on with London - we need your original thinking…

20.06.2025 10:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not very impressed by Gareth’s explanation that it didn’t matter that the GWR electrification was too large (commentators quipped you could tie container ships to it) because the steel was a tiny part of the total cost. It was another OLE engineering mistake like headspans on the east coast.

26.05.2025 17:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cross Country train taking the Stafford route at Stone Junction.

22.05.2025 07:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In addition to previous updates, map now with Leven - Glenrothes with Thornton shown as a full service and XC Edinburgh-Aberdeen shown as limited - checked due to the last Aberdeen-Penzance train on the media this morning! www.projectmapping.co.uk/Resources/TO...

16.05.2025 17:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Latest all stations GB rail map. Hi-rez pdf at www.projectmapping.co.uk/Resources/TO...

Added limited service GWR to Pembroke and Thameslink to Victoria
Made TPX Redcar - Saltburn limited service
St Denys, Bitterne, Sholing, Bursledon and Hamble removed from Southern

Spot anything else?

15.05.2025 08:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How the national rail map design evolved
YouTube video by MrHappyMappy How the national rail map design evolved

Thought I'd show this version of the design of the British national rail map:
youtu.be/BhNGJF37FyA

A version is also on Geoff Marshalls video from 3 years ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXE6...

27.03.2025 14:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It has a map too. metro.co.uk/wp-content/u...

25.03.2025 09:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The algorithm doesn’t work!

25.03.2025 09:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Updated Birmingham West Midlands train map with corrections supplied by Bluesky proofreaders! Many thanks...
www.projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Reso...

18.03.2025 12:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Latest Birmingham West Midlands map with Camp Hill line and Wrexham Shropshire & Midland Railway planned new services. Birmingham in a circle to show city centre stations without repetition. Shows all rail and tram stations. www.projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Reso...

07.03.2025 17:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Two terrible logos / symbols. What happened to good design in the railways ?

23.02.2025 00:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tube & Rail map along side a Tube map. Which one would you use, never mind you’d have to stoop to see High Barnet.

03.02.2025 11:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Look at the detail in this London Rail map (unknown designer on Reddit), very interesting indeed. Look at the Sutton loop, lovely. (Many similarities with my Project Mapping design however...)
Hi-rez: www.projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Reso...

30.01.2025 14:54 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I got all excited when Euston Films asked if they could use my map in Nightsleeper, but was slightly disappointed in its minimal appearance!

29.01.2025 10:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, who cares about readability when the font is so fun? (Note to self: ditch Frutiger.)

26.01.2025 00:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Unfortunate mistake, while maps are notoriously difficult to proof read, you’d expect GWR to know their patch.
I’ve seen this map before and wondered at the need to show where a particular type of train goes, in this case where Turbos go. Unusual, usually InterCity, Regional and Local on one map.

04.01.2025 09:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What’s with all the ‘Towards…’ on London Transport wayfinding, what’s wrong with ‘To’?

(Never mind two of those bifurcations going the wrong way!)

03.01.2025 10:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Latest London rail map from Quickmap. Will be doing more on Blkuesky, come across...

29.12.2024 17:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I like Tinsel Town Central!

25.12.2024 23:06 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Christmas everyone!

25.12.2024 10:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thought I'd put this up, designed a while ago, done in response to WMTs map. And for Christmas, Bluesky users! Let there be more of us. (Surprised BlueSky doesn't have a mid word capital.) Merry Christmas!

24.12.2024 16:39 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Great replica of a Leslie Green tube station.

21.12.2024 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Try again, reduced size and more jpg - 8mb

21.12.2024 16:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Try again, uploading using image button instead of dragging and dropping.

21.12.2024 16:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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