| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 22:18, 17th January 2025 |     |
In the course of my occasional 'tidying up' behind the counter of this Coffee Shop forum (I may move and merge, but I don't delete!), I found a couple of topics relating to my learned friend Richard Fairhurst's excellent Adlestrop Railway Atlas.
I've therefore moved and merged both of those topics here, purely in the interests of continuity and ease of future reference. I recommend this Atlas to all of our readers, and thank you again to Richard for your ongoing work on it.
Chris.
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by grahame at 08:29, 6th January 2025 | |
Once again thank you for the update to your always useful map.
A possible amendment. I believe the branch from Hamble station to Hamble-le-Rice oil terminal is no longer extant. There are remanent tracks going south from Hamble Lane towards the terminal, northwards Bing Maps show the Hamble Rail Trail cycle way along the line of the branch.
Have not cycled the Hamble Rail Trail, normally just cross it going down Hamble Lane to the ferry.
A possible amendment. I believe the branch from Hamble station to Hamble-le-Rice oil terminal is no longer extant. There are remanent tracks going south from Hamble Lane towards the terminal, northwards Bing Maps show the Hamble Rail Trail cycle way along the line of the branch.
Have not cycled the Hamble Rail Trail, normally just cross it going down Hamble Lane to the ferry.
It would be difficult to get a train through there even if the track were complete. Much lost in the undergrowth and here is the road crossing
The map, Richard, is a "standard" now. When you're walking through a train and see a young gentleman with it on his screen, using it to pick out the various historic turn-offs along the way. You should be very proud indeed of your work.
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by CyclingSid at 07:57, 6th January 2025 | |
Once again thank you for the update to your always useful map.
A possible amendment. I believe the branch from Hamble station to Hamble-le-Rice oil terminal is no longer extant. There are remanent tracks going south from Hamble Lane towards the terminal, northwards Bing Maps show the Hamble Rail Trail cycle way along the line of the branch.
Have not cycled the Hamble Rail Trail, normally just cross it going down Hamble Lane to the ferry.
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 21:42, 29th December 2024 | |
I agree, ChrisB: no problem with me for the 'pdf' version.
Richard will no doubt be able to resolve ellendune's apparent problem.
Meanwhile - many thanks for this latest update, Richard. I love the Portishead and WC&P lines.
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by ChrisB at 21:32, 29th December 2024 | |
I can open it in Adobe & then click to magnify in order to read text
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by ellendune at 20:56, 29th December 2024 | |
Is it just me, but I cannot now zoom in enough to read the text. I am using Adobe acrobat to open it.
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 13:10, 29th December 2024 | |
And here's another update:
https://www.systemed.net/atlas/
Northumberland Line, HS2, south-west Scotland. And Ashley Down!
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by Mark A at 12:45, 30th December 2022 | |
+1, especially having had cause a few months back to pass by the site of Saughtree station, the building still there on its hillside though the nearby viaduct is long gone. Photo here:
https://www.facebook.com/saughtreerailwaystation/posts/the-viaduct-that-once-stood-proud-at-saughtree-many-years-ago-but-sadly-got-knoc/644929835707283/
And a classy video of the station from Forgotten Relics. There aren't many b&bs that have their own 12" to the foot garden railway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1BnXgVpXBw
Mark
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 21:05, 29th December 2022 | |
They are!
The Newcastle area was the biggest cartographic challenge - basically trying to balance legibility with accuracy and completeness. But to be honest it's the rural areas I enjoy the most - just thinking of an old line through Wooperton, Wooler and Coldstream. Entirely unviable right now but a man can dream...
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by bradshaw at 20:02, 29th December 2022 | |
The railways of the County Durham and Newcastle area are very complex as I found out when trying to produce a map of the waggonways associated with the coal and quarry industries
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by grahame at 18:40, 29th December 2022 | |
And a year later... here's another update:
https://www.systemed.net/atlas/
https://www.systemed.net/atlas/
Richard, it's fantastic - thank you. I have just spend a fascinated couple of hours, learning and marvelling.
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by IndustryInsider at 17:16, 29th December 2022 | |
Brilliant - it’s a great resource. Thank you, Richard.
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 15:29, 29th December 2022 | |
And a year later... here's another update:
https://www.systemed.net/atlas/
It now includes the north-east - which means England is complete. (Newcastle was pretty complex!) Plus a few tendrils into the Borders, and various changes/updates/corrections around the country.
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by ellendune at 13:00, 29th December 2021 | |
Following on from your link ,the version I get doesn't seem to show the Settle To Carlisle line yet any plans for this to continue northwest?.
Um the version I get does show it. Do you need to clear the cache on your browser?
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by Western Pathfinder at 12:51, 29th December 2021 | |
Following on from your link ,the version I get doesn't seem to show the Settle To Carlisle line yet any plans for this to continue northwest?.
Note to add ,I've now been able to make this link work Thanks again Richard.
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by eightonedee at 09:18, 28th December 2021 | |
That's great, thanks Richard - looking forward to the North east and Scotland!
A tiny point of detail if I may - can you include the former Coley branch from Southcote Junction please? And the Westward Ho!, Bideford and Appledore?
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by Western Pathfinder at 18:43, 27th December 2021 | |
Thank you so much for all the hard work that you put in to this wonderfully useful resource Richard it's most appreciated by many .
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 13:12, 27th December 2021 | |
Thanks! I genuinely enjoy working on it, and this update particularly... all those long-lost lines across the north Pennines.
| Re: New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by IndustryInsider at 10:22, 27th December 2021 | |
Well done, Richard. It is an excellent resource I use quite regularly.
| New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 00:27, 27th December 2021 | |
I've just uploaded an update to my (very long-standing) New Adlestrop Railway Atlas:
https://www.systemed.net/atlas/
Cumbria, (the rest of) Yorkshire, and other bits and bobs. Including Okehampton marked as a full-service passenger line!
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Bmblbzzz at 19:40, 2nd March 2019 | |
I registered systemed.net (after the French phrase "système D") back in 1999, way before anyone was selling dodgy medicines on the internet. It's been my web and email address for 20 years so I'm not changing it now! 
I've realized my French is so rusty I can't even say "I've learnt something today". 
(would it be j'ai appris quelquechose aujourd'hui?)
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by bobm at 11:40, 28th February 2019 | |
Judging by the dodgy spelling and vocabulary I see in some of the emails from said companies I doubt many of the senders were even born in 1999!
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 11:34, 28th February 2019 | |
I registered systemed.net (after the French phrase "système D") back in 1999, way before anyone was selling dodgy medicines on the internet. It's been my web and email address for 20 years so I'm not changing it now!
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Bmblbzzz at 08:51, 26th February 2019 | |
Just one comment: I think the web address is slightly unfortunate. "Systemed" does sound (or rather, look) as if it's peddling dodgy meds...
Perhaps more seriously, the distinction between "line out of use" and "disused line" is not terribly clear. I guess you deliberately didn't use "dismantled line" (as seen on OS maps) because some disused lines might still have track in place.
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Bmblbzzz at 19:38, 25th February 2019 | |
I wish I'd known about that bus shelter when I was there last summer!
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 17:25, 21st February 2019 | |
It was great fun chatting to Geoff. We poked around a couple of stations on the Cotswold Line and could probably have chatted for hours more if we'd had the time. Slightly freaky to go to YouTube today and see that 7,230 people have watched the interview so far!
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Western Pathfinder at 12:57, 21st February 2019 | |
Just looking in here and thought I might blow the dust off this thread
With the news that Adlestrop is going to be updated to include more of the North and Scotland ,also our very own Richard Fairhurst has been having a Choo Choo Chat with Geoff Marshal from All The Stations ,more about the Atlas and map type things in the link below
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=YVMeXHO6MwI.
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Oxonhutch at 07:08, 28th January 2018 | |
That intrigued me and a google search found this wonderful site that overlays old maps with new
Very interesting too. I wonder what happened to the 'Column (to commemorate the passing of the Reform Bill, 1832)' that is now occupied by a pair of properties at the north end of Ellenborough Park Road.
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by 1st fan at 00:24, 28th January 2018 | |
A magnificent map. Well done.
I echo that as well.
The original line from the Bristol and Exeter into Weston super Mare appears to be missing. It ran down what is now Winterstoke Road past he gas works to the original WsM station. It was replaced with the current loop.
That intrigued me and a google search found this wonderful site that overlays old maps with new
Thank you for that map link. It is facinating.
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by eXPassenger at 22:58, 27th January 2018 | |
A magnificent map. Well done.
I echo that as well.
The original line from the Bristol and Exeter into Weston super Mare appears to be missing. It ran down what is now Winterstoke Road past he gas works to the original WsM station. It was replaced with the current loop.
That intrigued me and a google search found this wonderful site that overlays old maps with new
Thank you for that map link. It is facinating.
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by ellendune at 19:45, 27th January 2018 | |
A magnificent map. Well done.
I echo that as well.
The original line from the Bristol and Exeter into Weston super Mare appears to be missing. It ran down what is now Winterstoke Road past he gas works to the original WsM station. It was replaced with the current loop.
That intrigued me and a google search found this wonderful site that overlays old maps with new
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by PhilWakely at 19:33, 27th January 2018 | |
A magnificent map. Well done.
Hear, hear!
I guess the relatively new stations of Cranbrook and Newcourt in East Devon will be in the next update.
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by eXPassenger at 18:01, 27th January 2018 | |
A magnificent map. Well done.
The original line from the Bristol and Exeter into Weston super Mare appears to be missing. It ran down what is now Winterstoke Road past he gas works to the original WsM station. It was replaced with the current loop.
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by bobm at 21:48, 26th January 2018 | |
this January I did get a rather nasty bout of flu. So that gave me the chance to do some more on the map.
I wish I could be that creative when I had the flu....
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Red Squirrel at 17:12, 26th January 2018 | |
Ooh, well OK, while we're at it, there's a short length between Kingscote and East Grinstead that is now part of the Bluebell Railway...
I love the map too by the way; thanks for all the effort that has plainly gone into it!
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 10:47, 26th January 2018 | |
Thanks all! And thanks Andy for the Helston update - absolutely the sort of thing I wouldn't have spotted myself.
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Andy at 16:52, 25th January 2018 | |
It must have taken a lot of work - bravo! Love it.
One for the next update is the resurrection of Truthall Halt on the Helston branch in West Cornwall (now the UK mainland's most southerly station) and a one-mile track northwards (in fact half way) towards Nancegollan, currently terminating at Prospidnick.
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by grahame at 16:45, 25th January 2018 | |
Richard, your Adlestrop Atlas has been hugely useful over the years - at "Save The Train" it provides exactly the illustrative mapping we needed to support our texts - and a map is worth a thousand words. Good to see it updated; I'm torn between a delight each time there's an update, and sadness at you being laid up now that I know that's when you work on it.
Footnote to newer readers - the maps were used with Save the Train with Richard's prior permission; we started to use them very early in the campaign at a time when help such as this was rare ...
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by JayMac at 16:14, 25th January 2018 | |
A most useful resource that I've referred to on numerous occasions. Thank you RF.
| Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Bmblbzzz at 14:42, 25th January 2018 | |
That's great! Apart from the flu.
"Useful and entertaining" it is. | Re: Adlestrop map update Posted by Rob on the hill at 14:35, 25th January 2018 | |
I have often referred to this map over the years, and have found it most useful - thank you!
| New Adlestrop Railway Atlas update Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 14:10, 25th January 2018 | |
Back in 2001 I had a nasty bout of chicken pox, and stuck at home for a few days, I started sketching out a PDF map of Britain's railways, operational and disused. Called the New Adlestrop Railway Atlas, it's grown in fits and starts since then.
Fortunately you only get chicken pox once, but this January I did get a rather nasty bout of flu. So that gave me the chance to do some more on the map.
It now covers the country south of Lancaster and York, and has been (mostly) updated with recent station/line openings. (There's a few I've missed like Fishguard & Goodwick - they'll be in the next update.)
It's at http://www.systemed.net/atlas - hopefully people will find it useful and entertaining.
