Railways in the United Kingdom

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Railways in the United Kingdom
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Mapping the railways of the United Kingdom.

Status started

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

Railway electrification in England and Wales

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

Southeastern

Southeastern uses route names for all their services, which are shown on the service status page.

The following termini are for regular service patterns, trains may run to alternative termini during peak hours, early morning or late night.

Name From To type=route_master Note
High speed services (service=high_speed)
HS via Ashford St Pancras Dover Priory / Ramsgate / Margate
HS via Gravesend St Pancras Ramsgate / Maidstone West
Mainline services (service=regional)
Sole Street Victoria Gillingham / Dover / Ramsgate
Maidstone East Victoria Maidstone East / Ashford
Paddock Wood Charing Cross Dover Priory / Ramsgate
Hastings Charing Cross Tunbridge Wells / Hastings
Medway Valley Strood Tonbridge
Sheerness Sittingbourne Sheerness-on-Sea
Metro services (service=commuter)
Woolwich Cannon Street Dartford / Cannon Street
Bexleyheath Victoria / Charing Cross / Cannon Street Dartford / Cannon Street
Sidcup Charing Cross Dartford / Gravesend
Hayes Charing Cross Hayes
Grove Park Charing Cross / Cannon Street Orpington / Sevenoaks
Bromley South Victoria Orpington


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
Regional services (with first class, service=regional)
TL1 Bedford Brighton relation 6421836
TL2 Bedford Three Bridges (via Redhill) relation 16151940 Evening service now starts from Luton; 1 tph extended to Horsham on Sunday
TL3 Bedford East Grinstead relation 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 relation 6464333
TL9 Luton (peak) / Kentish Town (off-peak) Orpington relation 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 relation 15045727 Evening service and Sunday service start from Kentish Town
TL11 St Albans Sutton (via Mitcham Junction) relation 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
Regional services (operated with class 387 or class 700, 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
Southern

The route codes are sourced from the GTR 2018 timetable consultation.

ref=* From To type=route_master Note
Mainline services (service=regional)
SN1 London Victoria Brighton morning / late night and Sundays only
SN4.1 London Victoria East Grinstead
SN4.2 London Bridge Uckfield Sunday service starts from Oxted
SN5.1 London Victoria Reigate
SN5.2 Redhill Tonbridge
SN6.1 London Victoria Portsmouth Harbour
SN6.2 London Victoria Southampton Central will be cancelled from June 2024
SN6.3 London Victoria Bognor Regis split portion from SN6.1 / SN6.2
SN6.4 London Victoria Littlehampton via Hove
SN7.1 London Victoria Eastbourne
SN7.2 London Victoria Ore
SN8.1 Brighton Hove shuttle service
SN8.2 Brighton West Worthing
SN8.3 Brighton Portsmouth Harbour
SN8.4 Brighton Southampton Central
SN8.5 Littlehampton Bognor Regis
SN8.6 Littlehampton Portsmouth & Southsea
SN9.2 Brighton Seaford
SN9.3 Brighton Ore
SN9.4 Eastbourne Ashford International
Suburban services (service=commuter)
SN2 Watford Junction East Croydon
SN3.1 London Victoria London Bridge via Crystal Palace
SN3.2 London Victoria West Croydon via Crystal Palace
SN3.3 London Victoria Epsom via Mitcham Junction
SN3.4 London Victoria Dorking / Horsham via Mitcham Junction
SN3.5 London Victoria Epsom Downs via Norbury
SN3.6 London Bridge Epsom
SN3.7 London Bridge Caterham / Tattenham Corner
SN3.8 London Bridge Coulsdon Town stopping service, no longer run post-COVID
SN3.9 London Bridge Beckenham Junction
SN3.10 London Bridge East Croydon via Norbury
SN3.11 London Blackfriars Sutton via Mitcham Junction, no longer run post-COVID
SN3.12 London Bridge Sutton via Wimbledon and Peckham Rye, through service with SN3.11, no longer run post-COVID


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
Mainline services
SW 62 / SW 63 London Waterloo / Reading / Basingstoke Salisbury / Yeovil Junction / Exeter St Davids relation 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 relation 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 relation 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 relation 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 relation 8862704
SW 38 London Waterloo Reading relation 8862245
SW 13 London Waterloo Weybridge relation 9679140 via Virginia Water
SW 21 / SW 32 London Waterloo London Waterloo relation 8863909 via Strawberry Hill, SW 21 for clockwise services, SW 32 for anti-clockwise services
SW 24 / SW 47 London Waterloo Shepperton relation 8864019 SW 24 via Kingston, SW 47 via Richmond
SW 30 London Waterloo Hampton Court relation 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 relation 11582318
SW 75 London Waterloo Guildford Sunday service, via Woking
SW 42 London Waterloo Guildford relation 8618229 via Cobham & Stoke D'Abernon
SW 16 London Waterloo Guildford relation 8607835 via Bookham
SW 17 London Waterloo Dorking relation 8607835
non-London local services
SW 45 Salisbury Romsey relation 172798 via Southampton Central & Chandlers Ford
SW 97 Brockenhurst Lymington Pier relation 13370641 Lymington Flyer
SW 75 Southampton Central Portsmouth & Southsea relation 2239422 Stopping services - Fast services are provided by GWR Portsmouth - Cardiff route
SW 29 Guildford Farnham relation 11582245 Ends at Farnham on Mon - Sat, Ascot on Sun
SW 28 Ascot Aldershot relation 11582240
London Overground

See London Overground

Elizabeth line

See Elizabeth line

Eurostar

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.

See also

  1. ↑ [1] This website provides the headcode used in the early 00s, but some of them have changed - use the content of the headcode field in the most recent timetable data
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