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Maps of railway-lines 13/12/2013 at 20:20 #52726
vontrapp
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210 posts 		This site has some old maps of the UK with the railway-lines on them.
http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/
OS historical 1:25,000 is a good choice!
Last edited: 13/12/2013 at 20:25 by vontrapp
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The following users said thank you: Copping, maxand, Right Away, Signalhunter
Maps of railway-lines 15/12/2013 at 20:37 #52775
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177 posts 		Funnily enough, someone had sent me a link to SABRE, from a NON railway forum, very recently. Before that, I had never heard of it/them.

Thank you.
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Maps of railway-lines 15/12/2013 at 21:46 #52788
vontrapp
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210 posts 		This another site, which has Google Earth interposed on an old map.
http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html
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Maps of railway-lines 17/12/2013 at 13:23 #52855
maxand
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1637 posts 		I found it difficult to identify railway lines unless one starts with an area I know and figure out which lines represent railways.

In Mapnik (OpenStreetMap) at high magnifications, railways are grey strips containing white dashes. Elsewhere they are black lines though in OSStreetView stations at high magnifications are yellow blocks marked "Station" or equivalent.

What I can't work out is where the scale of the current magnification is displayed, if indeed it is at all. Can anyone help me on this? Otherwise the maps are not very useful for planning layouts. I can't find a "legend" anywhere.

This site added to Signalling links Wiki in the Rail Maps section. Thanks again VonTrapp.
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Maps of railway-lines 17/12/2013 at 13:44 #52857
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525 posts 		" said:


What I can't work out is where the scale of the current magnification is displayed, if indeed it is at all. Can anyone help me on this? Otherwise the maps are not very useful for planning layouts. I can't find a "legend" anywhere.
That is a bit of a pain! However the OS maps will generally have grid lines at either 1km or 10km intervals (depending on the scale of the original) which should make it possible to derive a scale.
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Maps of railway-lines 18/12/2013 at 03:59 #52926
maxand
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1637 posts 		Thanks welshdragon. Anyone know why the map has two sets of navigation and zoom controls, one below the other, or could this be just a temporary bug?

(added) Its URL includes the word beta,so it's probably not quite ready yet. Anyway, I've added it to our Signalling Links Wiki before it gets forgotten.
Last edited: 18/12/2013 at 04:04 by maxand
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