The lower map is based on the Central Trains map which has the problem of combining a dense urban network around Birmingham with cross country links between the west and east coasts. A hard task.
This map just copies that local area network map - but the airport should be in the middle with all lines feeding in.
Probably a hard task as the airport is on a radial route with difficult and unrealistic connections apart from through central Birmingham. Even there, a walk is required to access all the ex-GW routes. This map has not started to convince the user that getting to the airport by rail is practicable.
1 Badly crafted bends/junctions etc at Coventry (a line goes off at right angles), Crewe
2 Derby looks like a suburb of Birmingham
3 Terrible west coast main line (stops at Nuneaton) - hardly a connecting line
4 Terribly distorted Coventry - Leamington line (the green London line could have continued at 45º allowing the Coventry line a more natural vertical shape.
5 Leamington and Banbury stations shown differently although in practice the stations have the same layouts
6 Wolverhampton looks bad as Walsall line station alongside with thin connector - although all routes use the same platforms
7 Captions run unnecessarily across lines, particularly Birmingham New Street (one of the most important stations on the map!) and Tamworth (could have gone to right)
8 Map is too small - difficult to read at printed size, the fold out map doesn't even fill the available space, no effort to make it readable
9 Awful bend on Airport - Solihull bus link - out of character
10 Colour codes not right, connecting services include west coast main line
11 Nuneaton strange with another right angle
12 Worcester - why blue/green further apart between Shrub Hill and Foregate Street?
13 The principle links map (upper) is difficult to see - grey on yellow not good idea - but more focussed, think based on an ATOC map. Even here Edinburgh - Glasgow and Swindon - Didcot shouldn't be there
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