rail maps

comrades · Post by **comrades** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:01 pm

tis me again

is there a free site for giving detailed layout maps of railways around the Bristol/Bath region? im not even sure what im supposed to be looking for on google

thenudehamster · Post by **thenudehamster** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:08 am

You can try http://www.streetmap.co.uk but that is, as the name suggests, more street oriented than rail, though some of its medium level maps have fairly detailed rail layouts

peterjay · Post by **peterjay** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:17 am

Have you tried the New Adlestrop Railway Atlas ?
I think the web-site is http://www.geowki.co.uk/New_Adlestrop_Railway_Atlas.pdf
got there byputting Adlestrop into Google!
peterjay

qzdcg8 · Post by **qzdcg8** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:26 am

peterjay wrote:Have you tried the New Adlestrop Railway Atlas ?
I think the web-site is http://www.geowki.co.uk/New_Adlestrop_Railway_Atlas.pdf
got there byputting Adlestrop into Google!
peterjay

Typo alert, try http://www.geowiki.co.uk/New_Adlestrop_ ... _Atlas.pdf

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:29 am

Thanks for fixing the link Steve.

thenudehamster · Post by **thenudehamster** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 2:52 pm

What an absolutely wonderful piece of work; I'm not sure whether to cheer you or curse you for that, Peter. Now it looks as if the 'little' route I started is going to turn into half the UK....

1crick14a · Post by **1crick14a** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:10 pm

Chuckle

Use all the branches you can Barry........Rick

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:53 pm

Far too much grey on that map

And I assume the red is freight only?

thenudehamster · Post by **thenudehamster** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:08 pm

couldn't see a key, Martin, so anything would be a guess, but as the red lines have no active stations, it'd be a pretty fair guess to say you're probably right.

Have to agree about the grey, though

peterjay · Post by **peterjay** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:58 pm

Sorry Barry

I found the Atlas when I was making a map for Tim Court's fabulous Mid East UK route. It was on a different web-site then and like Topsy seems to have growed a bit too!
My apologies
peterjay

bigvern · Post by **bigvern** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 8:58 pm

It doesn't appear to zoom out to trackplan level but a very useful resource nonetheless.

Information on certain railway topics is still surprisingly scarce on line and I'm afraid if you are serious about route building as most of us have found, at some point you are going to have to dig out your wad and pay for books and maps to get decent reference material. If you are lucky enough to have a library with a well stocked railway section then you may find what you need there, though items like Quail maps are not likely to be high on the book budget agenda. (Even with the 30% extra we are probably all going to be paying with re-banded council tax).

Though even I baulked in Ian Allan, Cardiff today having found a very nice book on the Waterloo & City line to turn to the inside back cover and see the price tag was Â£35. Yegods!

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:15 pm

bigvern wrote:It doesn't appear to zoom out to trackplan level but a very useful resource nonetheless.

Though even I baulked in Ian Allan, Cardiff today having found a very nice book on the Waterloo & City line to turn to the inside back cover and see the price tag was Â£35. Yegods!

Hi Vern
Make a note of the book ISBN and ask your library to get it........they'll usually oblige.
That maps great....but I cant find a way to print it....while zoomed in?
Jon

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:56 am

bigvern wrote:It doesn't appear to zoom out to trackplan level

Now that would be nice. With signalling diagrams, mileposts, gradients, speed limits, nearest KFCs... Well I can dream can't I?

bigvern · Post by **bigvern** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:39 am

jbilton wrote:
bigvern wrote:It doesn't appear to zoom out to trackplan level but a very useful resource nonetheless.

Though even I baulked in Ian Allan, Cardiff today having found a very nice book on the Waterloo & City line to turn to the inside back cover and see the price tag was Â£35. Yegods!

Hi Vern
Make a note of the book ISBN and ask your library to get it........they'll usually oblige.
That maps great....but I cant find a way to print it....while zoomed in?
Jon

I will give that a try - there must be a copy kicking round in a library somewhere. I couldn't find a secondhand copy on line and the cheapest new was Â£33 but plus Â£3.50 postage.

thassos · Post by **thassos** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 12:10 pm

That maps great....but I cant find a way to print it....while zoomed in?

Does Print Screen not work?