1 Bad alignment of station names with circles or ticks (eg Ellesmere Port and Sankey are not centred on their ticks), bad spacing (many examples but Warrington Bank Quay is centred but applies to a station circle to the left, Wavertree Technology Park is flush left but applies to a station tick below) 2 Some stations shown with an interchange symbol (Warrington Bank Quay, Southport) but others not (Bidston, Ormskirk etc) - why? 3 Poor presentation of the Earlestown triangle (why does it have a circle and a tick?); does it imply a City Line service from Newton-le-Willows to Warrington? 4 The curves are too angular, for example, why force the city centre loop into a series of straight lines? 5 No indication of routes when lines cross between stations 6 Poor angles, the map doesn’t consistently use the 0º, 45º & 90º angles; the Hightown - Southport, Kirkdale - Preston or Huyton - Wigan lines are not parallel but slightly out of true and the North Wales coast uses a peculiar shallow incline 7 Old fashioned little boxes indicating where lines go to off the map in a very small point size 8 Odd placing of airport symbol (not captioned) and its text
			1 Consistency in the use of interchange circles (all these are locations where you can, or have to, change trains) 2 Better relationship between line weight, station tick and circle sizes, and captions - more ‘even’ in appearance overall 3 Captions correctly aligned with stations and optically spaced between nodes å5 Consistent 30º and 60º angles suit the railways of the region and work better than conventional 0º, 45º & 90º angles (we have working examples to show this) 6 Better presentation of the difficult Earlestown triangle - the WCML is bent instead of the Merseyrail line (as it is in reality) to make the Lime Street - Warrington service look better (and at the same time the main Chester - Manchester service) 7 Routings made obvious where lines cross between stations (by bridges) 8 Altrincham - Stockport line added; Blackpool route added, connection between Wigan stations shown 9 Southport and Kirby to Manchester routes are straighter; Warrington shows the two distinct routes shared by the station 10 Overall, map fits a smaller area