When the Victorian premier announced a plan to build an underground suburban rail loop linking every major line in Melbourne, it wasn’t only train commuters who were excited.

The $50 billion project also sparked enthusiasm from the city’s cartographers who eagerly took up the challenge of putting the rail loop on the map.

The Age spoke to two hobby cartographers who have designed two very different looking maps of the proposed network. One of our designers has also taken up the challenge.

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