Lines leading from or merging with passenger lines

[Harlesden]

I've always been a little fascinated, while riding by train, with all the lines I see leading off or merging with the line I am on. Is there any map or diagram on the web showing where these lines come from or go to? My two areas of interest are London and Lincolnshire.

 

[EltonRoad]

You could always buy a rail atlas, one of the most popular is Stuart Baker's. Type it into Amazon.

Or on the web try going to streetmap.co.uk and entering in your location, it brings up an Ordnance Survey map and you can follow the line to see where it goes.

 

[Minilad]

Quail Maps are probably your best bet. A lot more detail is shown on them.
Or Track Atlas which is produced by the same company but in a different style

 

[AlterEgo]

Google Earth is probably the best free resource you can get - but the Quail maps, available online, are probably what you're looking for...

http://www.trackmaps.co.uk/

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Baker for general overview, Quail for exceptional detail; I own both and would recommend them. TrackAtlas is OK for passenger lines, but doesn't show goods only lines and is very inaccurate in places.

 

[Zoe]

Baker for general overview, Quail for exceptional detail; I own both and would recommend them. TrackAtlas is OK for passenger lines, but doesn't show goods only lines and is very inaccurate in places.

Or get a Sectional Appendix for the area.

 

[SteamPower]

Or get a Sectional Appendix for the area.

How easy are these sectional appendixes to get hold of though?

 

[Zoe]

How easy are these sectional appendixes to get hold of though?

You can buy them from Willsons.

 

[SteamPower]

You can buy them from Willsons.

Thank you. I'm looking into it now

 

[Hydro]

For physical geography of railway lines, Sectional Appendices are terrible. They are to primarily convey operational information.

 

[NIMBUS]

Or, depending upon where you are in the country (Scotland and Northern England is not fully completed yet), you could use Richard Fairhurst's excellent free PDF atlas:

http://www.systemed.net/atlas/

 

[sidmouth]

And for London underground / overground I would use this:
http://carto.metro.free.fr/documents/CartoMetroLondon.v1.0.pdf

 

[Spaceflower]

Try this:

http://www.getamap.ordnancesurveyleisure.co.uk/

Holds aerial photography and OS Landranger and Explorer layers. The latter two are ideal for what you're after. Just type in a place name to search and toggle between the different map layers using the buttons to the top left of the map screen.

Try it, type in 'Lincoln'.

 

[swt_passenger]

How easy are these sectional appendixes to get hold of though?

The track plans from the sectional appendices were available online as an April 2009 'snapshot' (but good enough for most purposes), until Network Rail 'improved' their website. :roll: It was known as the 'baseline declaration'...

Might even still be on there but without navigable links - maybe someone has found them with a search? All I've been able to find is a few of the gauge restriction tables so far...

However then this appeared:

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse... route mileage, Permissible line speeds&root=

Massive file sizes though, unfortunately...