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Back in 2001 I had a nasty bout of chicken pox, and stuck at home for a few days, I started sketching out a PDF map of Britain's railways, operational and disused. Called the New Adlestrop Railway Atlas, it's grown in fits and starts since then.

Fortunately you only get chicken pox once, but this January I did get a rather nasty bout of flu. So that gave me the chance to do some more on the map.

It now covers the country south of Lancaster and York, and has been (mostly) updated with recent station/line openings. (There's a few I've missed like Fishguard & Goodwick - they'll be in the next update.)

It's at http://www.systemed.net/atlas - hopefully people will find it useful and entertaining.

I have often referred to this map over the years, and have found it most useful - thank you!  :)

That's great! Apart from the flu.  :( "Useful and entertaining" it is.  :)

A most useful resource that I've referred to on numerous occasions. Thank you RF.  :)

Richard, your Adlestrop Atlas has been hugely useful over the years - at "Save The Train" it provides exactly the illustrative mapping we needed to support our texts - and a map is worth a thousand words.    Good to see it updated; I'm torn between a delight each time there's an update, and sadness at you being laid up now that I know that's when you work on it.

Footnote to newer readers - the maps were used with Save the Train with Richard's prior permission; we started to use them very early in the campaign at a time when help such as this was rare ...

It must have taken a lot of work - bravo! Love it.
 :)

One for the next update is the resurrection of Truthall Halt on the Helston branch in West Cornwall (now the UK mainland's most southerly station) and a one-mile track northwards (in fact half way) towards Nancegollan, currently terminating at Prospidnick.

  

Thanks all! And thanks Andy for the Helston update - absolutely the sort of thing I wouldn't have spotted myself.

Ooh, well OK, while we're at it, there's a short length between Kingscote and East Grinstead that is now part of the Bluebell Railway...

I love the map too by the way; thanks for all the effort that has plainly gone into it!

I wish I could be that creative when I had the flu....

A magnificent map.  Well done.

The original line from the Bristol and Exeter into Weston super Mare appears to be missing.  It ran down what is now Winterstoke Road past he gas works to the original WsM station.  It was replaced with the current loop.

Hear, hear!

I guess the relatively new stations of Cranbrook and Newcourt in East Devon will be in the next update.

I echo that as well.


That intrigued me and a google search found this wonderful site  (http://www.kypwest.org.uk/explore-the-map/go-to-the-map/) that overlays old maps with new

Thank you for that map link.  It is facinating.

Seconded very interesting.

Very interesting too. I wonder what happened to the 'Column (to commemorate the passing of the Reform Bill, 1832)' that is now occupied by a pair of properties at the north end of Ellenborough Park Road.

Just looking in here and thought I might blow the dust off this thread
With the news that Adlestrop is going to be updated to include more of the North and Scotland ,also our very own Richard Fairhurst has been having a Choo Choo Chat with Geoff Marshal from All The Stations ,more about the Atlas and map type things in the link below
           https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=YVMeXHO6MwI.

It was great fun chatting to Geoff. We poked around a couple of stations on the Cotswold Line and could probably have chatted for hours more if we'd had the time. Slightly freaky to go to YouTube today and see that 7,230 people have watched the interview so far!

I wish I'd known about that bus shelter when I was there last summer!

Just one comment: I think the web address is slightly unfortunate. "Systemed" does sound (or rather, look) as if it's peddling dodgy meds...

Perhaps more seriously, the distinction between "line out of use" and "disused line" is not terribly clear. I guess you deliberately didn't use "dismantled line" (as seen on OS maps) because some disused lines might still have track in place.

I registered systemed.net (after the French phrase "système D" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_D)) back in 1999, way before anyone was selling dodgy medicines on the internet. It's been my web and email address for 20 years so I'm not changing it now! :D

Judging by the dodgy spelling and vocabulary I see in some of the emails from said companies I doubt many of the senders were even born in 1999!

I've realized my French is so rusty I can't even say "I've learnt something today".
(would it be j'ai appris quelquechose aujourd'hui?)