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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 ...
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 ...
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.
The West Coast Main Line is a major trunk railway in the United Kingdom, linking London with Glasgow. The Watford DC lines are intricately linked with the southern part of the WCML and are also shown in full. A detailed diagram of the line is housed on this page for technical reasons. Note that some complex areas have been simplified for clarity.
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.
Margam Park Railway 1 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (603 mm) [9] c. 2011 [10] Teifi Valley Railway: 2 ft (610 mm) 1km 1986 Closed 2014 and much of the track lifted. Reopened 2016 Cefn Mably Farm Park Railway Attraction Miniature railway 12 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (311 mm) c. 2020 [11] Heath Park Electric Tramway: 18 in (457 mm) 0.2km Garw Valley Railway: Heritage ...
Map of passenger railways in the West Midlands. This is a list of railway stations within the West Midlands, a metropolitan county in central England which includes the cities of Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton. It includes all railway stations in the West Midlands that currently have regular timetabled train services, as well as certain ...
OpenRailwayMap. 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]