Railways in the United Kingdom
Mapping the railways of the United Kingdom. | |
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United Kingdom Railways is a project to map all the mainline railways in the United Kingdom. There are related projects to map the London Underground, United Kingdom trams, and independent and minor Railways.
Progress
Most railway lines are in.
Things still work checking and needing doing.
- Adding details of the number of trackes (tracks=1, track=2) etc or adding multiple parallel tracks
- Stations layout (platforms, passages, steps etc)
- Relations for Services
- Relations for historic lines
- Relations for Network Rail operating section
Mapping services
Railways are shown on most OpenStreetMap mapping layers alongside other information.
Stations
- Main article: United Kingdom railway stations
All currently operating UK mainline railway stations have been now mapped as nodes, according to a comparison of the list from Wikipedia. There is currently an effort to map the stations in more details, including the platforms and station buildings.
Train services
Please see Talk:United Kingdom railways for discussion over colour usage
Current operational train services (as distinct from historic services) should all be mapped as relations tagged as type=route and route=train. They should also be tagged as network=National Rail to specify the service is part of the National Rail network. This helps distinguish the more important services and aids sensible display by the OpenStreetBrowser renderer.
List of services
National Rail
- Thameslink
After the completion of Thameslink Programme, there are now 12 half-hourly routes in the whole Thameslink network giving a total of 24 tph through the core if the full network is implemented. A full network map can be found here and the full route descriptipon can be read here.
All routes are half-hourly unless otherwise specified.
ref=* | From | To | type=route_master | Note | |
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Regional services (with first class, service=regional) | |||||
TL1 | Bedford | Brighton | 6421836 6421836 | ||
TL2 | Bedford | Three Bridges (via Redhill) | 16151940 16151940 | Evening service now starts from Luton; 1 tph extended to Horsham on Sunday | |
TL3 | Bedford | East Grinstead | 16151939 16151939 | Peak hour only service | |
TL4 | Bedford | Littlehampton | N/A | High peak hour only service, now withdrawn (become Southern London Bridge - Littlehampton service) | |
TL5 | Peterborough | Horsham (via Redhill) | All-day service; Sunday service 1 tph terminates at Kings Cross | ||
TL6 | Cambridge (fast from Stevenage) | Brighton | All-day service, 1 tph in evenings and on Sundays | ||
TL7 | Cambridge (local) | Maidstone East (off-peak) / Ashford International (peak) | N/A | The Kent section has never been realised; now terminates at Kings Cross and become a Great Northern service | |
Suburban services (without first class, service=commuter) | |||||
TL8 | Welwyn Garden City (peak) / London Blackfriars (off-peak) | Sevenoaks | 6464333 6464333 | ||
TL9 | Luton (peak) / Kentish Town (off-peak) | Orpington | 9898994 9898994 | Planned as all-day service in the 2019 network but now operating peak only (from Luton in the morning, from Kentish Town in the evening) | |
TL10 | Luton | Rainham | 15045727 15045727 | Evening service and Sunday service start from Kentish Town | |
TL11 | St Albans | Sutton (via Mitcham Junction) | 168327 168327 | Starts from Blackfriars on Sunday morning | |
TL12 | St Albans | Sutton (via Wimbledon) | Starts from Luton on Sunday |
- Great Northern
ref=* | From | To | type=route_master | Note | |
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Regional services (operated with class 387, service=regional) | |||||
GN1 | London Kings Cross | Kings Lynn | |||
GN2 | London Kings Cross | Cambridge | slow service | ||
GN3 | London Kings Cross | Peterborough | Limited service | ||
Suburban services (operated with class 717, service=commuter) | |||||
GN4 | Moorgate | Stevenage | via Hertford North | ||
GN5 | Moorgate | Welwyn Garden City |
- South Western Railway
For SWR services, use "SW xx" as the ref where xx is the first 2 digits of the "headcode" in the timetable[1], still shown on the class 455 trains.
Use service=commuter for commuter services (served by red trains in SWT era), service=regional for regional services (served by blue trains in SWT era), and service=long_distance for Waterloo - Exeter / Weymouth services (served by white trains in SWT era).
ref=* | From | To | type=route_master | Note | |
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Mainline services | |||||
SW 62 / SW 63 | London Waterloo / Reading / Basingstoke | Salisbury / Yeovil Junction / Exeter St Davids | 9973389 9973389 | West of England Line services, SW 62 for fast services between Basingstoke & Salisbury, SW 63 for slow services | |
SW 91 / SW 92 / SW 94 | London Waterloo / Basingstoke / Winchester | Southampton / Bournemouth / Poole / Weymouth | 13193208 13193208 | South West Main Line long-distance services, SW 91 for fast services between Southampton & Bournemouth, SW 92 for semi-fast and slow services, SW 94 for Southampton - Waterloo peak hour services | |
SW 84 / SW 92 / SW 93 | London Waterloo / Winchester / Eastleigh | Portsmouth Harbour | 13445989 13445989 | Eastleigh - Fareham Line services, SW 84 on weekdays, SW 92 on Sundays (combined with Poole trains), SW 93 for twice-daily slow services combined with Basingstoke suburban services | |
SW 72 / SW 81 / SW 83 | London Waterloo | Haslemere / Portsmouth & Southsea / Portsmouth Harbour | 11582375 11582375 | Portsmouth Direct Line services, SW 81 for fast services, SW 72 for weekday slow services to Portsmouth & Southsea, SW 83 for Sunday slow services to Portsmouth Harbour | |
Suburban services | |||||
SW 87 / SW 89 | London Waterloo | London Waterloo | via Hounslow, SW 87 for anti-clockwise services, SW 89 for clockwise services | ||
SW 58 | London Waterloo | Windsor & Eton Riverside | 8862704 8862704 | ||
SW 38 | London Waterloo | Reading | 8862245 8862245 | ||
SW 13 | London Waterloo | Weybridge | 9679140 9679140 | via Virginia Water | |
SW 21 / SW 32 | London Waterloo | London Waterloo | 8863909 8863909 | via Strawberry Hill, SW 21 for clockwise services, SW 32 for anti-clockwise services | |
SW 24 / SW 47 | London Waterloo | Shepperton | 8864019 8864019 | SW 24 via Kingston, SW 47 via Richmond | |
SW 30 | London Waterloo | Hampton Court | 8609805 8609805 | ||
SW 10 | London Waterloo | Woking | Monday - Saturday service (replaced with SW 75 on Sunday) | ||
SW 64 | London Waterloo | Basingstoke | |||
SW 51 | London Waterloo | Alton | 11582318 11582318 | ||
SW 75 | London Waterloo | Guildford | Sunday service, via Woking | ||
SW 42 | London Waterloo | Guildford | 8618229 8618229 | via Cobham & Stoke D'Abernon | |
SW 16 | London Waterloo | Guildford | 8607835 8607835 | via Bookham | |
SW 17 | London Waterloo | Dorking | 8607835 8607835 | ||
non-London local services | |||||
SW 45 | Salisbury | Romsey | 172798 172798 | via Southampton Central & Chandlers Ford | |
SW 97 | Brockenhurst | Lymington Pier | 13370641 13370641 | Lymington Flyer | |
SW 75 | Southampton Central | Portsmouth & Southsea | 2239422 2239422 | Stopping services - Fast services are provided by GWR Portsmouth - Cardiff route | |
SW 29 | Guildford | Farnham | 11582245 11582245 | Ends at Farnham on Mon - Sat, Ascot on Sun | |
SW 28 | Ascot | Aldershot | 11582240 11582240 |
Heritage railways
Lines
See List of UK railway lines for names of railway lines.
New Lines (Proposed and Under Construction)
Sources
The data can come from GPS traces submitted to OpenStreetMap (try searching the traces page for train, railway or rail), or from NPE Maps or landsat imagery. When tracing from NPE/landsat, do not use copyright sources to figure out if the line is still there or not. Instead, either use local knowledge, or other compatible map sources such as the OS Opendata
Surveying by train
Trains known to permit GPS reception
Unless otherwise specified, you'll need your GPS to be by the window on these trains to get a good lock.
- Turbostars (170/168), Turbos (165/166), Sprinters (15x), Pacers (14x) - used on non-electrified regional routes.
- Wessex Electrics (442)
- Slamdoor electric
- High Speed Train ('InterCity 125', 43)
- Great Western Adelante (180)
- Eurostar
- Electrostar classes 357/375/376/377/378/387
- DLR trains - NaviGPS users need to stand by the door, with the GPS horizontal, just above the bottom of the window
- Underground trains (tested on sub-surface and tube) - only when they can see the sky though!
- Caledonian Sleeper and other Mk2/Mk3 hauled stock
- 'InterCity 225', BR Mark 4 carriages
- Scotrail 'Sprinter' - depending on GPS unit (156/158).
- Desiro classes 350/360/444/450
- Desiro City classes 700/707/717 - reception only possible close to the window
Trains known not to permit GPS reception
- Voyager (220/221)
- MML Meridians (222)
- Pendolino (390) - rumoured that the vestibule windows may be ok
- Eurotunnel enclosed shuttle trains, though freight shuttles may work outside the tunnel.