Railways in the United Kingdom
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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 or network=regional depending on things like distance travelled and time between stations. This helps distinguish the more important services and aids sensible display by the OpenStreetBrowser renderer.
Tagged services
| Ref | Railway service | Operator | Route | Network | Assigned colour | Notes |
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| Merthyr and Vale | Barry Island > Cardiff > Merthyr Tydfil | Arriva Trains Wales | 195448 195448
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| VT F | Birmingham - Scotland | Virgin Trains | 289295 289295
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| Wolverhampton | Birmingham - Wolverhampton | London Midland | 285296 285296
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| CR | Birmingham Snowhill - Marylebone | Chiltern Railways | 167209 167209
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| SN 20 | Brighton - Ashford express | Southern | 172467 172467
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| 133 (GW) | Bristol - Avonmouth - Severn Beach | First Great Western | 167218 167218
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| SN 60 | Brighton-Portsmouth (semi-fast) | Southern | 174147 174147
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regional | #42816b (operator) | |
| SN 4 | Brighton Express (London Victoria - Brighton) | Southern | 167474 167474
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national | #42816b (operator) | |
| SN 67 | Bognor Regis - Littlehampton | Southern Railway | 173244 173244
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regional | #42816b (operator) | |
| 123 (GW) | Cardiff - Portsmouth | First Great Western | Route Route
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national | #32366d (operator) | A few stops missing - may need all stops adding from scratch to keep in order. |
| 181 (SN) | Caterham-London Victoria | Southern | 172834 172834
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regional | #42816b (operator) | |
| City | City Line | Arriva Trains Wales | 168230 168230
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Valleys | #f0af11 (route) | |
| XC | Cross Country Bristol - Manchester | Arriva CrossCountry | route route
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national | ||
| Cross-City | Cross City Redditch-Lichfield LMR | London Midland | 167785 167785
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regional | #ed1c24 (route) | |
| LM | Great Malvern - Leamington Spa | London Midland | 168165 168165
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regional | #22b24c (route??) | |
| LM | Great Malvern - Stratford | London Midland | 166314 166314
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regional | #22b24c (route?) | |
| SN 84 | Horsham - London Victoria | Southern | 176443 176443
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regional | #42816b (operator) | |
| Hope Valley | Manchester-Sheffield Hope Valley Line | Northern | Route Route
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regional | Not sure whether to include Strines Strines as most trains don't stop there.
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| - | Liverpool-Nottingham-Norwich | East Midland Trains | 237133 237133
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national | Not finished yet. | |
| - | Manchester Airport-Cleethorpes | First TransPennine Express | 237386 237386
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national | Work in progress | |
| 52 (FC): Luton - Sutton Loop | Thameslink Luton-Sutton | First Capital Connect | 168327 168327
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regional | #27abe2 (route) | |
| 125 (GW) | London Paddington - Bristol Temple Meads | First Great Western | 183757 183757
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national | #32366d (operator) | Paddington now re-instated. Previously someone had deleted the node's station status and didn't move the relation info! |
| 125 (GW) | London Paddington - South Wales | First Great Western | 166378 166378
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national | #32366d (operator) | Very incomplete (only 3 stops) |
| 135 (GW) | London Paddington - Penzance | First Great Western | 125414 125414
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national | #32366d (operator) | Needs stops adding. |
| SN 62 | London Victoria - Eastbourne | Southern | 174288 174288
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national | #42816b (operator) | |
| SW 158 | London Waterloo - Weymouth | South West Trains | 1826565 1826565
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national | Incomplete and needs stops adding. | |
| VT B | Manchester - London | Virgin Trains | 289293 289293
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West Coast | #eb3f94 (route) | |
| North Staffordshire Line (Derby-Crewe) | East Midlands Trains | 1075201 1075201
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regional | Not completed | ||
| SW 81 | Portsmouth Harbour - Waterloo (fast) | South West Trains | 173090 173090
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national | #ec1b30 (operator) | |
| GW 94 | Reading-Gatwick Turbo Express | First Great Western | 172989 172989
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national | #32366d (operator) | |
| 167 (IL) | Ryde - Shanklin | Island Line Trains | 167489 167489
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regional | #ec1b30 (operator) | Complete |
| SN 42 | "Seaford Flyer": Brighton - Lewes - Seaford | Southern | 172464 172464
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regional | #42816b (operator) | |
| Chase | Walsall - Wolverhampton | London Midland | 285323 285323
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regional | #00aeef (route) | |
| SN 65 | West Worthing - Brighton (all stations) | Southern | 173240 173240
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regional | #42816b (operator) | |
| VT A | Wolverhampton - London | Virgin Trains | 164889 164889
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West Coast | #945436 (route) |
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
- 'Southern' electric units (377)
- 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
- First Capital Connect
- One Railway
- 'InterCity 225', BR Mark 4 carriages
- Scotrail 'Sprinter' - depending on GPS unit (156/158).
Trains known not to permit GPS reception
- Virgin Voyager (220/221)
- MML Meridians (222)
- derived from Voyagers, similar problems. MML still run HSTs as well, use these.
- Virgin Pendolino (390) - rumoured that the vestibule windows may be ok
- South West Trains 'Desiro' (444/450) - seats at some windows are ok (seemingly away from toilets, etc).
- Eurotunnel enclosed shuttle trains, though freight shuttles may work outside the tunnel.