u/midnightrambulador

Seeing the Class 11 (which hauled the Amsterdam–Brussels service 1985–2009) was particularly nostalgic for me – I grew up in Rotterdam with relatives in Leiden so I saw the "Benelux train" countless times at those stations. You can still catch the show at Antwerp or Liège later: https://www.belgiantrain.be/en/about-sncb/100years/historic-train

Binnenkort ook nog in Luik en Antwerpen voor de liefhebber: https://www.belgiantrain.be/nl/about-sncb/100years/historic-train

De Beneluxtrein is wel een shot nostalgie voor mij, opgroeiend in Rotterdam met familie in Leiden heb ik die vaak langs zien komen op beide stations.

Just some very rough estimates based on the current travel times on various sections in journey planners. First time making a fantasy timetable like this, feedback is welcome!

Obviously if you start from Copenhagen itself you can get much further south in a day, but I thought this would be enough crazy speculation for now :)

Couldn't NOT participate in this! Some design principles I tried to honour:

• Keep all station names horizontal
• Convey no actual information through colour, only through shapes and patterns
• Limit the number of colours used, and try to make the most important contrasts work under various types of colourblindness
• Make all lines pass the stations they physically go through even if they don't call there

I'm quite satisfied with how it turned out. I think the coloured bundles of lines jump immediately to the eye and help structure the diagram in terms of its most important routes. On the negative side it might be a tad too "frilly" for a printed chart (which is the ultimate goal of the contest).

May the best map win! Eternal transit-mapping glory beckons!

For mobile users, the PDF is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ku2_Ywr0rUO8H3sDD791xFcul65-7SzF/

I have a vertical line that is intercepted by another line at angle 𝛼 (30° in this case) and I want to connect them with a nice arc. Normally I set the arc radius and then drag the arc up or down until the other end connects, but now I'm in a situation where the starting point on the vertical line is fixed (point A) and I want to find the radius so that it lines up. But with the formulas I can figure out it doesn't seem to be possible to find a solution. Any advice?

A common problem in transit mapping, when one of a bundle of lines goes another way than the rest, and you still want to join everything smoothly. Normally I cheat a bit by breaking up the outer arc and inserting a straight segment in between, but I randomly happened on one case where it lines up perfectly so now I want to know if this is more generally possible!

The example has m = 1, k = 2, r1 = 8, alpha = pi/3; this gives r2 = 11 (it's freakish how well it lines up!)

I've tried various combinations of pen-and-paper rewriting and WolframAlpha, but I can't manage to find a formula that also correctly reproduces the example.

What I've tried is to express the x and y coordinates of points A and B in terms of r1, k, m and sines and cosines of alpha. Then use Pythagoras for the distance AB which must equal r2 * crd(alpha)

Any advice? Thanks a lot in advance!