[OSM-talk] railway lines, tracklogs and the like

[David Groom]

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From: "Simon Hewison" <simon at zymurgy.org>
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Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 5:20 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] railway lines, tracklogs and the like


> On the past few railway journeys I've been on, I've attempted to take 
> tracklogs with an eTrex, and found that I couldn't reliably get a signal 
> inside a big metal box.
>
> I was thinking that certainly in the UK, the railway network hasn't 
> expanded much at all since the OS copyright ran out on the old OS maps. 
> It's contracted a lot.
>
> Has anyone been tracing the railways on the old OS maps, excluding the 
> obvious Beeching cuts? (for the readers outside the UK, Dr Beeching was a 
> highly unpopular British Railways chairman in the 1960s who ordered a 
> large part of the UK rail network to be closed down)
>

Yes, I traced the course of the Isle of Wight Steam railway, and the 
northern two miles of the IslandLine railway, to complete the rail network 
on the Isle of Wight.  Luckily there is was only about six miles in total 
for me to do :)

David