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Railway lines in England and Wales, as of 2010. This is a list of railway lines in Great Britain that are currently in operation, split by country and region. There are a limited number of main inter-regional lines, with all but one entering Greater London. [1] The line from London to the Channel Tunnel is the only line designated ' high speed ...
Rail transport. The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest railway system in the world. The first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825, which was followed by an era of rapid expansion. Most of the track is managed by Network Rail, which in 2017 had a network of 9,824 miles (15,811 km) of standard-gauge lines, of which 3,339 ...
OpenRailwayMap (ORM) is an online collaborative mapping project developing a worldwide railway map using technology based on the OpenStreetMap project. The project is part of the OpenStreetMap database, and acts as a renderer for the existing OpenStreetMap database to include additional information for railroad lines worldwide. [2]
Interactive map of rail stations in Great Britain. Click on the picture for an enlarged map of the rail network. List of railway stations in the United Kingdom, split alphabetically. UK railway stations – A. UK railway stations – B. UK railway stations – C. UK railway stations – D.
Towns in England that owed their development to the coming and expansion of the railways to a major degree, or which have greater prominence on the railway network than their size would otherwise suggest.
East Grinstead railway station. Ellesmere Port railway station. Ely railway station. Enfield Town railway station. Epsom Downs railway station. Eurotunnel Folkestone Terminal. Euston railway station. Exeter St Davids railway station. Exeter Central railway station.
The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.
In 1899, the Kars–Gyumri–Tbilisi railway connection between Georgia and Armenia was established. [2] The Khashuri to Borjomi link was built in 1894, with the 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in) Borjomi to Bakuriani narrow-gauge line operational from 1902, to serve the higher level skiing community. The Kakheti railway branch line was completed ...