UK Railway Lines - Master Map

It's all the industrial railways that amaze me. The Joyce Green Hospital (Dartford) tramway is well documented locally but I didn't realised is went to the Long Reach Isolation Hospital on the river. I remember a lot of the industrial railway in Deptford, Woolwich, Silvertown, Erith and other places within cycle reach from the sixties, many were still in use. If only I had a camera then!

All those tracks that I recall on my first years of commuting into London that are now gone although some old sections have been brought back into use for the DLR

Surprised to see the Danson Park (Bexleyheath) miniature railway marked. I may have been on it as a toddler but I don't recall it and it was probably gone by the sixties.

I will no doubt be browsing this every now and again

Give me a book any day. There are at least two modern-ish atlases available of UK railways, both discussed on another thread. Older Railway Clearing House maps etc are as follows:

Railway and canal system general maps available published in 1926, (7 miles to the inch)

Sectional maps (2 miles to inch) covering England published at least from 1921 these contain plans of sidings, collieries, works and canals etc..

Railway junction books show junction track layouts between different companies and cover GB and Ireland.

The Railway Clearing House official Handbook of Railway Stations has 50,000 entries within 654 pages and gives particulars of stations, sidings and collieries etc in the UK. Of particular interest to me, is the listings of works sidings at each station (the Bedford entry for example has around 30 private company entries). The one we have in the Archives was published in 1938. There are no maps.

I notice that many of the above have been reproduced by a number of publishers since 1948, and more recently as print on demand, however its much nicer to have an original in your hands.

I too prefer a book but there is no denying that to be able to zoom in on specific areas and see the overlay on a satellite view or an old map is very useful. Both have their uses, especially as the looming energy gap will mean more regular and longer power cuts and having been without power for three days a few years ago books proved their worth

Peter wrote:

I too prefer a book but there is no denying that to be able to zoom in on specific areas and see the overlay on a satellite view or an old map is very useful. Both have their uses, especially as the looming energy gap will mean more regular and longer power cuts and having been without power for three days a few years ago books proved their worth

And a website can easily be corrected if someone reports an error or omission.