any #html experts in the chat? I'd like to replicate these old railway timetables in HTML, and am writing a Python app to write the HTML.
is there a better way than by drawing lines over the layout like this and spamming colspan
everywhere?
e.g.
London Waterloodep
Vauxhall

Semi-finished HTML recreation of the timetable row headers

detail of the location columns, with an irregular grid overlaid lining up with the boundaries on the scanned page

screenshot of scanned 90s BR timetable for suburban lines out of London Waterloo