UK Rail Map Info

[03_179]

Slightly off the wall question regarding the UK railway lines.

Does anyone have or know where to obtain a free route/railway line map in a GPX of KLM format ?
I'm hoping to build a online map of journeys made on the rail network using something like Google maps.
I cannot always carry around a hard backed book when out and about so having my trips I have done on an online version online would be good.

Thanks in advance,

EDIT:

And if anyone has a GPX / KLM file of all the UK stations please

 

[HST43257]

I’m not sure I can help with GPX/KLM stuff (I don’t know much about it) but take your pick from ones on the link below. Shows multiple maps of the entire rail network. Should be downloadable on way or another.

Maps of the National Rail Network | National Rail

View and download maps of the National Rail network in Great Britain, including London and South East maps, regional maps for England, Scotland and Wales, accessibility maps and more.

www.nationalrail.co.uk

 

[03_179]

Thanks.
They are all pdf type maps.

 

[zwk500]

Thanks.
They are all pdf type maps.

Edinburgh Uni has a shapefile format that you might be able to convert https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/2423

 

[03_179]

Thanks.
I'll have a play with that at home tonight

 

[RailWonderer]

The SBB website has an interactive map (obviously with their routes in red and everybody else's in grey). I have dragged it to the UK with this link

Map — SBB

Daten Portal der Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen mit Daten zu Haltestellen, Rollmaterial, Zügen, ...

data.sbb.ch

And you can see the UK network in its entirety if you zoom in enough.

 

[03_179]

Thanks.
I'll take a look at this one as well

 

[RailwayRookie]

The SBB website has an interactive map (obviously with their routes in red and everybody else's in grey). I have dragged it to the UK with this link

Map — SBB

Daten Portal der Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen mit Daten zu Haltestellen, Rollmaterial, Zügen, ...

data.sbb.ch

And you can see the UK network in its entirety if you zoom in enough.

Signalbox

www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk

Avanti as a much better map including some/most freight only branches too. Although also not in the format OP asked for. Could be of some use still.

 

[03_179]

That's interesting

 

[Tim M]

For worldwide coverage you could try this: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/mobile.php?

 

[bnc2018]

Network Rail publish this data here: https://github.com/openraildata/network-rail-gis. It's in shapefile format, but if you're so inclined, the geopandas python package lets you read these (and you can then export it as gpx)

 

[bigbigcheese]

Using openstreetmap.org datasets could be quite interesting, you can use the Overpass API with various queries to extract the data you want in various forms and format to your hearts content. Alternatively the openstreetmap.org wiki will give you many ideas for retrieving data in other ways.

 

[03_179]

Thanks


I have downloaded QGIS and the data from Edinburgh Uni and imported it.
Just trying to figure out out how to use either GPX or KML data in QGIS to colour it.

 

[Legolash2o]

https://raildata.org.uk is the official source of KML

 

[jackdoyle]

I've used this Ordnance Survey dataset before that includes railway lines, stations etc.

OS Data Hub

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osdatahub.os.uk

 

[Dave |H]

Hi 03179 and anyone else who wants to use the file,

I've created a GPX file of all the stations in the UK (hopefully - if any are missing let me know and I'll update the file...) along
with some junctions and other stuff...

Feel free to use it at your discretion..

Dave H
Bristol

PS swap the .txt for .gpx

 

[03_179]

Thanks Dave I'll have a look

 

[endecotp]

So which data source(s) did you use to create this?