Introduction

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The New Adlestrop Railway Atlas is a historical atlas of Britain's railways, currently in progress. It shows lines and stations currently open, together with those that have closed. The key is:

As a work-in-progress, the map may be full of mistakes - I make no claims to be a railway historian! But I will correct any that are drawn to my attention. I have a policy of never lifting information from any copyrighted railway atlas: consequently, everything has to be checked with original sources or railway histories.

Scope

The map currently includes Wales, the Midlands, East Anglia, Yorkshire and the South. As time goes on, I hope to gradually expand the atlas's coverage.

It does not show:

• Freight sidings
• Dates of opening and closure
• Railway companies owning each line

It is not intended to be a snapshot of any particular time. Many of the stations and lines will not have co-existed. Nonetheless, I hope you find it interesting and useful. In the future, I intend to add a searchable index to stations, based around the grid lines. There will also be enlargements of the London and Birmingham areas, where some detail is currently omitted for reasons of space.

The browsable web version (tiled GIFs) is temporarily offline.

September 2007: Apologies for the lack of updates for a long while. I'm still working on expanding the coverage (currently concentrating on the Liverpool/Manchester/Leeds belt), but am not progressing as fast as I'd like. I hope to have an update before too long.

Contact

I would be very grateful to hear your comments, criticisms and suggestions. Many thanks to the dozens of people who have already offered encouragement and corrections.

Richard Fairhurst