New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update

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[IndustryInsider]

Brilliant - it’s a great resource.  Thank you, Richard.

[grahame]

And a year later... here's another update:

https://www.systemed.net/atlas/

Richard, it's fantastic - thank you. I have just spend a fascinated couple of hours, learning and marvelling.

[bradshaw]

The railways of the County Durham and Newcastle area are very complex as I found out when trying to produce a map of the waggonways associated with the coal and quarry industries

[Richard Fairhurst]

They are!

The Newcastle area was the biggest cartographic challenge - basically trying to balance legibility with accuracy and completeness. But to be honest it's the rural areas I enjoy the most - just thinking of an old line through Wooperton, Wooler and Coldstream. Entirely unviable right now but a man can dream...

[Mark A]

+1, especially having had cause a few months back to pass by the site of Saughtree station, the building still there on its hillside though the nearby viaduct is long gone. Photo here:

https://www.facebook.com/saughtreerailwaystation/posts/the-viaduct-that-once-stood-proud-at-saughtree-many-years-ago-but-sadly-got-knoc/644929835707283/

And a classy video of the station from Forgotten Relics. There aren't many b&bs that have their own 12" to the foot garden railway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1BnXgVpXBw

Mark

[Richard Fairhurst]

And here's another update:

https://www.systemed.net/atlas/

Northumberland Line, HS2^▸ (The next High Speed line(s)), south-west Scotland. And Ashley Down!

[ellendune]

Is it just me, but I cannot now zoom in enough to read the text.  I am using Adobe acrobat to open it.

[ChrisB]

I can open it in Adobe & then click to magnify in order to read text

[Chris from Nailsea]

I agree, ChrisB: no problem with me for the 'pdf' version.

Richard will no doubt be able to resolve ellendune's apparent problem.

Meanwhile - many thanks for this latest update, Richard. I love the Portishead and WC^▸ (Wiltshire Council (Unitary Authority))&P lines.

[CyclingSid]

Once again thank you for the update to your always useful map.

A possible amendment. I believe the branch from Hamble station to Hamble-le-Rice oil terminal is no longer extant. There are remanent tracks going south from Hamble Lane towards the terminal, northwards Bing Maps show the Hamble Rail Trail cycle way along the line of the branch.

Have not cycled the Hamble Rail Trail, normally just cross it going down Hamble Lane to the ferry.

[grahame]

Once again thank you for the update to your always useful map.

A possible amendment. I believe the branch from Hamble station to Hamble-le-Rice oil terminal is no longer extant. There are remanent tracks going south from Hamble Lane towards the terminal, northwards Bing Maps show the Hamble Rail Trail cycle way along the line of the branch.

Have not cycled the Hamble Rail Trail, normally just cross it going down Hamble Lane to the ferry.

It would be difficult to get a train through there even if the track were complete.  Much lost in the undergrowth and here is the road crossing




The map, Richard, is a "standard" now.  When you're walking through a train and see a young gentleman with it on his screen, using it to pick out the various historic turn-offs along the way.   You should be very proud indeed of your work.

[Chris from Nailsea]

In the course of my occasional 'tidying up' behind the counter of this Coffee Shop forum (I may move and merge, but I don't delete!), I found a couple of topics relating to my learned friend Richard Fairhurst's excellent Adlestrop Railway Atlas.

I've therefore moved and merged both of those topics here, purely in the interests of continuity and ease of future reference.  I recommend this Atlas to all of our readers, and thank you again to Richard for your ongoing work on it.

Chris.