Appearance on map

If they took it off...........they would only be putting it back on in 2010 when the extension is finished.......which will lead to a more cluttered map [with the extra stations]

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The ELL hasn't been permanently closed, as it will be reopening as part of a longer route.

Shoreditch station did indeed close forever last year, but the northern extension will bring with it a new station (Shoreditch High Street station) very close to the site of the old station.

So yes the whole route will stay on the Tube map, though the dashed orange line and adjacent bus logos will provide a clue to passengers that this isn't an ordinary line - and of course the map legend will provide more information (and I bet there'll be a text box with an explanation on the map too).

And then in 2010 things will change again and the line will be shown on the Tube map as part of the London Overground network linking up Croydon with Dalston.

Of course there may be a radical redesign of the map before then - it certainly was considered by TfL recently, though evidently any major redesign was rejected.

I know people complain about the Tube map getting cluttered up, but I think it remains a good, clear design. Anyway, London isn't simple and uncluttered - the map is there to make sense of London by explaining it, not by removing the bits that minimalist graphic designers think look awkward!

well station i work at (which i will not name) is a pain you get tourists walking up you circle it high light lines interchanges tell them platform numbers and they still go the wrong way half of them its a waist of time thing i find with passengers is that they only listen to what they want to listen to and thats generally the stuff that is nothing to do with them

Check out a map of Brussels if you think we've got problems!!!!

The DLR did used to show its routes in three different line colours (red, green and blue) - but this was only on it own (DLR only) maps, not on the London Underground map where it always appeared as one colour (though on the LU map it used to be a darker blue double striped line rather than the double turquoise line it is now).

I'm pretty sure the three DLR route colours on the DLR's own maps were ditched when the Beckton extension opened in 1994. As well as potential confusion with the District line (green) and Central line (red), the idea of having set coloured routes limited flexibility on the DLR - as trains can go down any of the branches, so the service pattern on the DLR can easily change along with demand, plus as pmnorthern says different services can be run for exhibitions and indeed also at peak times.

For all the above reasons I don't think it'd be a great idea to brand specific DLR routes with colours, though I can certainly see why this initially sounds like an attractive idea.

I'm not so sure... The colour looks lighter and more greeny on DLR maps, but darker and bluer on Tube maps to me.