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« on: January 25, 2018, 14:10:00 » |
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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. |
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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2018, 14:35:35 » |
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I have often referred to this map over the years, and have found it most useful - thank you!  |
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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2018, 14:42:55 » |
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That's great! Apart from the flu.  "Useful and entertaining" it is. |
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JayMac
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2018, 16:14:43 » |
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A most useful resource that I've referred to on numerous occasions. Thank you RF. |
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"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
- Sir Terry Pratchett.
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« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2018, 16:45:15 » |
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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 ...
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Andy
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« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2018, 16:52:27 » |
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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. |
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Richard Fairhurst
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2018, 10:47:40 » |
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Thanks all! And thanks Andy for the Helston update - absolutely the sort of thing I wouldn't have spotted myself.
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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2018, 17:12:39 » |
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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!
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2018, 21:48:07 » |
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this January I did get a rather nasty bout of flu. So that gave me the chance to do some more on the map.
I wish I could be that creative when I had the flu.... |
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eXPassenger
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« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2018, 18:01:19 » |
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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.
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« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2018, 19:33:45 » |
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A magnificent map. Well done.
Hear, hear! I guess the relatively new stations of Cranbrook and Newcourt in East Devon will be in the next update. |
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« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2018, 19:45:39 » |
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A magnificent map. Well done.
I echo that as well. 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.
That intrigued me and a google search found this wonderful site that overlays old maps with new |
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« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2018, 22:58:10 » |
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A magnificent map. Well done.
I echo that as well. 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.
That intrigued me and a google search found this wonderful site that overlays old maps with new Thank you for that map link. It is facinating. |
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« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2018, 00:24:25 » |
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A magnificent map. Well done.
I echo that as well. 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.
That intrigued me and a google search found this wonderful site that overlays old maps with new Thank you for that map link. It is facinating. Seconded very interesting. |
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« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2018, 07:08:05 » |
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That intrigued me and a google search found this wonderful site that overlays old maps with new 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. |
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