Colour Train Map
When a map is created for a metro, subway, or raid transit system, colors are assigned to each line for identification. After creating the Global Subway Spectrum a few years ago which catalogs all these colors, I wanted to revisit the idea and create something new with updated data that transit fans like myself would enjoy hanging on their wall. The result is Colors of the Rails, colors.
Make your own custom map of the World, United States, Europe, and 50+ different maps. Color an editable map and download it for free to use in your project. This color coding was so successful that, beyond the branches of the Green Line, if you were to ask a Boston native where to grab the Cambridge-Dorchester Line they would look at you like a tourist.
Northern Trains rail maps
Alternatively, you can spot a Boston tourist (or any tourist really) in a city like New York when they misidentify the 4 train as the Green Line. Most transit maps use colors, even if they are not included in the names. San Francisco's BART system, for instance, uses blue, green, orange, red, and yellow to mark lines on its map, but the lines themselves go by the name of their final stations, such as the Daly City - Dublin/Pleasanton line.
General Color Notes This page details the colors utilized on this website as provided by official sources, arranged by city. Only cities with published and easily accessible color schemes are listed here. This page is explicitly a data bank containing publicly available information.
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The contents of this page may become out of date at any time. On a similar note, Greater Greater Washington posted a graphic recently noting the prevalence of certain colors in U.S. rail, light rail or streetcar systems.
Stephen Hudson notes at GGW that most transit systems do use colors whether or not those are included in the name of the lines. San Francisco's BART system, for example, color-codes its lines on maps using blue, green, orange, red and. Bus maps - which often have far more routes than rapid transit maps - are increasingly using colour to denote service type (regular, express, limited, etc.) rather than individual routes, which greatly reduces the number of colours required.
UK National Rail train map - 30 Oct 2018 | Train map, National rail ...
Make the Metro map of your dreams: create your own metro maps, save them, and share with friends! (One response pointed out that the colour choices aren't great for red-green colour blindness.) Ofsevit, who also makes hiking trail maps in the style of transit maps, is running a Kickstarter to create a poster of the transit palette. Colour coding Why fix colour codes? There is an immediate need to assign and fix colour codes to the existing railway lines. This will create a system that will avoid confusion when new lines are added to the network.
But before we discuss the decision to fix colours for the rail network, let us understand the function/purpose of colour on the map.
