Railway Maps and Swallows' Home


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Posted by Jock on September 04, 2007 at 21:02:55 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: Swallows' Home posted by Adam Quinan on September 04, 2007 at 17:24:57:

... with the network of small branch lines that lasted until Dr Beeching's axe in the 1960s, most places were within relatively short distance of a station though timetables had to be carefully consulted to make sure of the connections.

Link to page offering a historic map as a pdf download, showing nearly ALL the railways in Wales, the Midlands, East Anglia, Yorkshire and the South.

Britain's passenger railway network map 1961 (pre-Beeching)

Britain's passenger railway network map 1969 (post-Beeching)

Link to page offering a map of the current network as a pdf download

(pdf maps can be resized in the usual way, other maps can be magnified by clicking on them)


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