Old Railway Maps

[ANorthernGuard]

is there anyone who could direct me to a site that has old railway maps (circa 1900 of around Manchester (Piccadilly area) and also the South Coast Line, I find them fascinating but had no luck on searches, cheers

 

[jopsuk]

Wikimedia commons has a big collection of Railway Junction Diagrams from circa 1914

For instance, Manchester

 

[eastwestdivide]

www.old-maps.co.uk
has different dates, and is zoomable, if a bit slow

 

[ANorthernGuard]

Thx Jopsuk, anyone else got any ideas?

 

[Kingfisher200262]

is there anyone who could direct me to a site that has old railway maps (circa 1900 of around Manchester (Piccadilly area) and also the South Coast Line, I find them fascinating but had no luck on searches, cheers

I've got a Railway Clearing House map for Manchester, which was the personal copy of George Hughes, the CME of the Lancs & Yorks Railway.

 

[oversteer]

http://ooc.openstreetmap.org has maps from the 40s-50s era.

 

[ANorthernGuard]

Thx for all the help folks, making gr8 reading..anymore?

 

[VideozVideoz]

Hi Northern Guard. Is this any good to you?

http://www.users.care4free.net/~joycewhitchurch/1924/1924map.htm

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

http://www.users.care4free.net/~joycewhitchurch/1924/1924map.htm

I know that you put this link up for the OP, but I found it very interesting and have added this to my datafiles. Some long lost routes are shown on this map and I like the way you can go from section to section.

 

[ANorthernGuard]

I know that you put this link up for the OP, but I found it very interesting and have added this to my datafiles. Some long lost routes are shown on this map and I like the way you can go from section to section.

Thats one of the reasons why I like old maps, can be a fascinating insight the past