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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.
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Map of Great Britain's rail transport infrastructure, showing number of tracks, electrification and maximum speed. 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.
- Introduction
- Notes
- Mileage Files
- Bridge Books
Engineer's Line References (usually known simply as ELRs) are used by Britain's national railway system to describe individual routes, for the purpose (originally) of identifying bridges accurately by one, comprehensive, national record system. The ELR system was introduced with centralised computer records, superseding numerous previous, pre-natio...
Mileages are given in the form miles.chains. The chain is an imperial measure equalling 22 yards; there are 80 chains in a mile. As the majority of railways were built in the nineteenth century, it is usually more convenient to stick with older units of measurement, rather than try to convert all records to modern standards. Where, for interest's s...
Most ELRs in this list have an associated hyperlink. Clicking this will take you to a mileage file. Each of these files has the major mileages for that ELR: junctions, stations and anything else that may be of interest. Stations are shown in capital letters, and other features in sentence case. Mileages in parentheses are not on that ELR, but are i...
To help them identify bridges quickly and easily, British Rail's civil engineers produced 'bridge books'. Two showing the railway in schematic form, including station and junction mileages, are available from this diagramspage.
In Great Britain, the Sectional Appendix is a railway document compiled by Network Rail and is the official definition of railway infrastructure, giving a detailed description of all railway lines owned by Network Rail.
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national rail network. Each train and freight operating company develops the timetable they would like to run in their area, and Network Rail then coordinates all the different timetables to produce a single national rail timetable. We update the timetable for the national rail network twice a year, once in May, once in December.
