DLR Map split into lines

That does show the typical service routes, although when there is disruption, engineering works or special events the routes change.
Even if you only intend to show the typical routes, I'd extend the Stratford via Bow line as a dashed line to Lewisham with a "morning peak hours only" key.
You also need something to show that Bank->Lewisham trains do not stop at West India Quay.

The colours are also possibly confusing - Bank/Monument is already served by green and yellow lines, and the District, Central and H&C lines are already prominent in east London so I would avoid using green, red or pink at all. I'd swap the blue and yellow lines as the Circle line doesn't get as far as Bow Road so there won't be any confusion with that, and there is nothing blue near Bank or Monument. Black would work for the Stratford-International to Woolwich Arsenal line, meaning purple would be free for Bank-Lewisham. That just leaves Tower Gateway to Beckton, which leaves the Bakerloo or Victoria line colours as not confusing (LO and the Jubilee both interchange with Beckton-Tower Gateway trains) as neither head or are likely to be extended to meet that route.

Indeed, Deptford Bridge (the actual bridge after which the station is named) carries the A2 (Watling Street) over the Ravensbourne River (and certainly not the Thames, whose lowest crossing until the 1890s was three mils upstream) Its name is an oxymoron as the bridge made redundant the "deep ford" from which the town took its name. I don't know when the first bridge was built, but certainly before 1497 when Cornish rebels marched on London from their camp on Blackheath, but were defeated by Henry VII's army at the "Battle of Deptford Bridge"

I have changed the colours to avoid confusion with the Tube. I have tried to show that southbound Bank-Lewisham trains do not stop at West India Quay, and I have fixed the station names on the Lewisham branch.



All trains on the Beckton branch not terminating at Tower Gateway terminates at Canning Town. Therefore, trains from Beckton to Stratford International are uncommon. However, two such depart from Beckton at respectively 15:19 and 15:39 Monday to Friday. You may also see trains from Stratford International to Gallions Reach (for Beckton Depot) around midnight.

Well, I never knew Pontoon Dock was a major destination (at least not since te Olympics!) and since when did the DLR do a shuttle service to City Airport?

I like the way that when two routes share track, they have consecutive letters.

Following this pattern for DLR
1. Bank- Lewisham
2 Stratford - Lewisham
3.Bank- Woolwich
4. Stratford Int - Woolwich
5. Tower- Beckton
(6 Stratford- beckton?)

Note odds to the City and evens to Stratford.

Short and Odd workings don't need special numbers, any more than do the odd positioning moves on the SSL which start as Circles and end as Districts.

yes, back in the very early days Tower Gateway to Island Gardens and Stratford to Island Gardens were shown as two separate colours from pictures I've seen. I don't recall when that changed.

Sheffield Supertram does something similar:





I have just returned from a week on the piste in Alpe d'Huez, running around the town were a couple of free buses. As each was a "circuit" rather than an out and back route, the destination blinds displayed which loop they were running on. Rather than a colour each route was named after a fruit, thus you could catch the Strawberry Bus, the Lemon Bus, the Blueberry Bus or the Apple Bus! Bringing it back on topic, what flavours should the DLR routes be?

Mm. So if the marketing bods come up with a drink for each line... for the black one you could have Dandelion and Burdock.
So, the sugar free version would be the Dandelion and Burdock Docklands Light Railway Lite.

here's a P86 with the original "toblerone" display set to Stratford (red)

and another on the blue route at tower gateway

I don't know if the toblerones were always intended to be used, or a temporary measure because of late delivery of the destination blinds (for which there was clearly space provided)

And here's a 1994 in-car map, shortly after the Beckton extension was opened - through running was not possible at first because the branch was opened with the new signalling system, not compatible with the original one.

But the brick colour with suitably-decorated windows to mirror the pumping station's window arches would be ideal.




NB-Sorry about the slight mistake re coal when I meant gas, but as Man Utd. have scored twice tonight before half-time after 11 consecutive blank first-halves, you may excuse the cock-up, tired and emotional!!

Well, here it is, so



you can see.

Think the interior décor might be too elaborate to reproduce on a bus.

I don't think I would want to taste either.

That's forward thinking, even if it's your rear end that'll be on it!

I have actually thought about converting this map into a more carriage-like map and then send both maps to TfL/DLR, but first of all, I would like your feedback to see if there is anything I could do to make the map even more user-friendly (for example, showing connections with the Tube lines - would that be a good idea, or will the OSIs and the colours make it way too confusing?)