• Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

Closed stations list/database?

Status
Not open for further replies.

grove

Member
Joined
22 Aug 2014
Messages
81
Does anyone know of the existence of a database of closed UK stations? This might be any number of formats: Excel, CSV, KML, Shapefiles, GPX etc. What is important is the coordinates infomation is available.

Thanks.
 
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R

RailUK Forums

pdeaves

Established Member
Joined
14 Sep 2014
Messages
5,932
Location
Gateway to the South West
Any particular timeframe? There are thousands upon thousands of closed stations if you go back to the 1830s. Coordinate information is likely to be sporadic at best for the really old ones; for some, no one really knows where exactly they were now, information being limited to 'somewhere between X and Y'.
 

zwk500

Veteran Member
Joined
20 Jan 2020
Messages
18,411
Location
Northampton
I suspect your best bet for coordinate information will be to extract data from Open Railway Map.
 

Gloster

Veteran Member
Joined
4 Sep 2020
Messages
12,943
Location
Up the creek
There was the Complete Atlas of Railway Station Names by Tony Dewick (Ian Allan; 2002). I know it was a book, but it attempted to show every station that had existed, with all its names in order and with some idea of when they were used (not dates, but rough sorting into pre- or post-1901) on the standard Ian Allan map template. Otherwise there is Quick’s Railway Passenger Station in Great Britain: A Chronology available on the RCHS website.

EDIT: RCTS corrected to RCHS.
 
Last edited:

Magdalia

Established Member
Joined
1 Jan 2022
Messages
7,330
Location
The Fens
Quick’s Railway Passenger Station in Great Britain: A Chronology available on the RCTS website.
Quick's Chronology is on the website of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (RCHS), nor the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS):


Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology​

by Michael Quick​


What is important is the coordinates infomation is available.
The Disused Stations website is not comprehensive but the stations that are covered usually have Ordnance Survey grid references:


 

etr221

Established Member
Joined
10 Mar 2018
Messages
1,581
There are a pair of books by Paul Smith and Sally Salmon - British Railway Stations Since 1901: An Essential Gazetteer and BRITISH RAILWAY STATIONS 1825-1900: An Essential Gazetteer - which list the stations with their National Grid References. Whether, if you contact the authors, they have and would be willing to make available the underlying data in digital format I've no idea.

Otherwise there is Quick’s Railway Passenger Station in Great Britain: A Chronology available on the RCTS website.
'Quick' is actually an RCHS (Railway and Canal Historical Society) publication (not RCTS - credit where it is due), downloadable from them as a (large) PDF
The other 'standard' reference work is 'Clinker's register of Closed Passenger Stations' 1830-c1980'. But neither of these has grid references/precise locations.

I have come across reference to a 'Railway Record of the British Isles' database project, run by a group 'Industrialogical Associates', most of whom have now passed on - I don't know its current status, or whence or if a copy might be obtained, or to what extent it included what you're after.
Unless you can obtain a copy, (or even if you can?) I fear you're going to have to do a lot of data entry (and research)
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Top