NewburyDrinker
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I hope you don't mind me posting this here, but over the past few years I've been working on a railway map covering the passenger railways of Great Britain and it's now at the stage where I am happy with it and want to make it available to others. It's very much a work in progress, and I will make corrections now and again when I spot an error or see something missing from it.
I wanted something to depict open and closed lines, and I wanted a bit of colour in it, but not by reusing the colours that other excellent maps have used, so I decided to settle on the 6 regional colours that were part of the Nationalised British Railways of 1948.
This isn't a detailed track atlas, but more of a simplified route map, however I have tried to depict most junctions in sufficient detail albeit with some minor adjustment of lines to show the general layout of a junction. Most stations are shown but there's bound to be a few that I have missed, probably because they were short lived and never appeared on historical maps that are publicly available. There's also bound to be some misspelled names and where stations have been renamed, I am not showing the different names.
The regional colour allocation is generally correct for lines that actually were around in 1948 when nationalisation happened, but for lines that closed before nationalisation then it is pure fantasy on my behalf as to what colour they are shown in and that includes lines that remained private. Also, it's not always obvious where the boundary between 2 regions was actually placed, for example did the Scottish Region actually extend into England or was the Scottish/Midland and Scottish/North Eastern boundaries bang on the national border. Quite a few lines also were transferred from one region to another over time since the initial nationalisation.
I hope this map is of use to someone and any feedback or comments, positive or negative, gratefully received.
On a technical note, the map is in PDF format, and it is quite large, weighing in at about 4.5mb. It opens and displays perfectly in a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Viewer. It also opens using Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera browsers although it doesn't zoom in far enough for my liking but it is still readable at maximum zoom. However, it doesn't perform with the Firefox browser - although it opens, the image remains blurred and is useless. It seems to open and zoom in quite well in a PDF viewer on an Android smartphone, but I cannot confirm how well it performs on Apple devices, it should be ok I hope.
EDIT: Removed the attachment in this post - see post #38 for the newest version of the map.
I wanted something to depict open and closed lines, and I wanted a bit of colour in it, but not by reusing the colours that other excellent maps have used, so I decided to settle on the 6 regional colours that were part of the Nationalised British Railways of 1948.
This isn't a detailed track atlas, but more of a simplified route map, however I have tried to depict most junctions in sufficient detail albeit with some minor adjustment of lines to show the general layout of a junction. Most stations are shown but there's bound to be a few that I have missed, probably because they were short lived and never appeared on historical maps that are publicly available. There's also bound to be some misspelled names and where stations have been renamed, I am not showing the different names.
The regional colour allocation is generally correct for lines that actually were around in 1948 when nationalisation happened, but for lines that closed before nationalisation then it is pure fantasy on my behalf as to what colour they are shown in and that includes lines that remained private. Also, it's not always obvious where the boundary between 2 regions was actually placed, for example did the Scottish Region actually extend into England or was the Scottish/Midland and Scottish/North Eastern boundaries bang on the national border. Quite a few lines also were transferred from one region to another over time since the initial nationalisation.
I hope this map is of use to someone and any feedback or comments, positive or negative, gratefully received.
On a technical note, the map is in PDF format, and it is quite large, weighing in at about 4.5mb. It opens and displays perfectly in a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Viewer. It also opens using Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera browsers although it doesn't zoom in far enough for my liking but it is still readable at maximum zoom. However, it doesn't perform with the Firefox browser - although it opens, the image remains blurred and is useless. It seems to open and zoom in quite well in a PDF viewer on an Android smartphone, but I cannot confirm how well it performs on Apple devices, it should be ok I hope.
EDIT: Removed the attachment in this post - see post #38 for the newest version of the map.
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