Things that aren't on the tube map - but should be

IMO, the map itself is far too cluttered as it is. Half the stuff on there is irrelevent.

Lovely, we know which station has a lift to the platform for wheelchairs but not buggies on the second Tuesday afternoon of every month - but surely a separate map could be provided with such details in. Perhaps it could also include useful things like whether the station has a booking office, or toilets etc. However, for the basic map the KISS principle ought to apply - just provide the minimum content required. If people want to know whether there's a lift, or a toilet, or a booking office, or which bus goes outside the station, or how far it is to the nearest Paypoint (to top up the Oyster when the ticket office is shut : - they can look it up in another map / list / appendix.

An oft-heard cry is that passengers ought to read the information; but if such information is difficult to understand even for a seasoned user, the occasional traveller doesn't have a cat in hell's chance!

That wouldn't work, as Tramlink only connects with LU at Wimbledon. I think that Overground (and maybe DLR) should be taken off the tube map, and just have their own maps, and also have a map that has all National Rail, LU, DLR and Tramlink lines on it.

I agree that the tube map is much too cluttered as it is, but I do think that LO and the DLR do have a place on there, because they both have (or will have at least) metro frequencies. it just needs to be redesigned, the 1940s Beck design style doesn't really work that well anymore. Blasphemy I know

The thing is there's always been a handfull of non-LU lines on the tube map - the NLL was there for as long as I can remember. Although when you think about it, the quesion of "why?" is perhaps begged for that one, as the NLL was never anything like a part of the LU in the way that, say, the Northen City was.

It just seems a bit of an inconsistant approach as to what is included and what isn't.

When the DLR first opened it was operated by London Underground. That may well be why it was and still is on the map.
Personally, keep the Tube Map as Tube/DLR and then have the High Frequencies map more readily available.

As far as I know, it was never operated by London Underground.

If you have Thameslink and Crossrail, you ought to have Charing Cross/Cannon Street to London Bridge as very high frequency NR services in Central London.

As an aside, it's worth remembering that the Waterloo & City line has pretty much always been on the tube map even in the days when it was fully-fledged BR line.

Of course, if Charing Cross Jubilee was still usable, they could have sent you there instead of Green Park, and it would have been much easier for you to have picked up the Tonbridge train.

But it'll have PAYG soon - isn't it the end of the year when NR in London has it.

What other reasons are there for it's non-inclusion. It can't be frequency - you'd have the Elephant branch of Thameslink and the Heathrow and eastern branches of Crossrail (at least some parts of them), and Cannon Street, post Thameslink project would be 20tph, with Charing Cross remaining 28tph. As I said - very high frequency lines.

If you add Crossrail and Thameslink, you cannot sensibly not add higher frequency lines.

Quite right! Looking back it has been consistently there since the "No.2 1938" card map and not missing an issue!