mapping the railways BRITAIN’S RAIL NETWORK TODAY 2008/2011

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Title Georgemas Junction Wick Title National Rail Network Diagram Far North Helmsdale Great Britain Line National Rail Map – schematic Lairg Publisher Project Mapping Tain Publisher Invergordon Garve Date 2011 Association of Train Operating Dingwall national rail Nairn Elgin Keith Achnasheen Inverness Strathcarron Forres Companies (ATOC) Huntly Plockton network diagram Stromeferry Kyle of Lochalsh Date 2008 Aviemore Inverurie Kingussie Dyce February 2011

Spean Aberdeen Glenfinnan Bridge Mallaig Blair Atholl Fort William Stonehaven

Pitlochry West Rannoch Montrose Principal routes Highland Lines Regional routes Arbroath Local routes Tyndrum Limited service Oban Dalmally Crianlarich Perth Dundee Not all lines shown in London area Gleneagles denoted by area within grey line Dunblane Cupar Arrochar & Tarbet Markinch Stirling Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Town Places with multiple stations on different lines Larbert Fife Garelochhead Alloa Circle Inverkeithing London Underground Circle Line Balloch Grahamston Edinburgh Upper Falkirk Waverley Glasgow Underground Helensburgh Milngavie North Berwick Lenzie Haymarket Central High Linlithgow Dunbar Bathgate Airport interchange Dumbarton Central Maryhill Cumbernauld Westerton Springburn Berwick-upon-Tweed Ferry interchange Airdrie Newcraighall Partick Railair coach link with Heathrow Airport Queen Street Coatbridge Drumgelloch Port GLASGOW Central Kirknewton Glasgow Inverclyde Shotts Gourock Whifflet Chathill Cambuslang Wemyss Bay Gilmour St Holytown EA Not all stations shown Ayr Paisley Largs Line Canal ST Newton Motherwell Stewarton Alnmouth Ardrossan COAST Kilwinning Neilston Hamilton Troon Burns Line East Carluke Carstairs Kilbride Prestwick Kilmarnock Larkhall Lanark Ayr Morpeth Girvan Galloway Line Lockerbie Stranraer Dumfries Annan Carlisle Tyne Valley Line NEWCASTLE Sunderland www.projectmapping.co.uk Workington Haltwhistle Hexham Durham Coast Line Durham Hartlepool Bishop Stockton Middlesbrough Penrith Auckland Tees Valley Line Whitehaven C WEST Appleby North Lakes Saltburn Eaglescliffe Darlington Whitby Cumbrian Battersby Coast Windermere Kirkby Stephen Line OAST Lakes Line Scarborough Kendal Settle & Oxenholme Carlisle Line Lake District Filey Northallerton Malton Barrow-in-Furness Ulverston Settle Thirsk Bridlington Carnforth Hellifield Knaresborough Morecambe Yorkshire Coast Line Summer Line Heysham Port Lancaster Sundays York Driffield only Harrogate Church Clitheroe Fenton Colne Ribble Airedale Beverley Valley Whalley Line Forster Shipley Dearne Line Nelson Square Valley Line Preston Blackburn Gilberdyke North Hebden Interchange Bridge Halifax Hull Burnley Dewsbury Castleford Blackpool Kirkham & Chorley Selby Brough South Wesham Todmorden Line Darwen Westgate Kirkgate Barton- New Holland Southport Rochdale Huddersfield on-Humber Bolton Wakefield Pontefract Goole Formby Wigan Wallgate Salford Ormskirk Crescent Stalybridge PenistonePenistone Grimsby Northern Lines LLineine Doncaster Barnetby Town Bootle North Victoria Penistone Adwick Cleethorpes Kirkby Western New Brighton MANCHESTER Hadfield Scunthorpe Habrough Saturdays LIVERPOOL Piccadilly Barnsley Moorfields Guide only Market Rasen Bidston Lime Street Airport Conisbrough Central Bridge Glossop Swinton West Kirby South Earlestown Romiley Gainsborough Birkenhead Central Parkway Central Marple Meadowhall Wirral Lea Warrington Stockport Worksop Road Lincoln Llandudno Heswall Lines Runcorn Bank Quay Hooton Whaley Chinley Retford Colwyn Bay Prestatyn Shotton Ellesmere Port Altrincham Sheffield Bridge Mansfield Holyhead Chesterfield Castle North Bangor Llandudno Rhyl Chester Hartford Northwich Erewash Robin Gate Junction Wilmslow Buxton Valley Hood Newark Skegness Macclesfield Line Line EAST COAST Poacher Hope Line Matlock Alfreton Betws-y-Coed Borderlands Sandbach Sheringham Cromer Line Congleton Conwy Valley Line Boston Sleaford North Walsham Blaenau Ffestiniog Grantham Bittern General Crewe Kidsgrove Derby Line Criccieth Hoveton & Wroxham Wrexham Central Alsager Pwllheli Nottingham Kings Lynn Porthmadog WEST COAST Nantwich Stoke- Uttoxeter Norwich Brundall Acle Ruabon Spalding Great Yarmouth North & on-Trent Fen Wymondham Barmouth Wherry Gobowen West Line RY East Midlands Parkway Line Downham Lines Whitchurch Stone T Tywyn Machynlleth Welshpool Loughborough Market Dovey Junction Shrewsbury Attleborough Ely Reedham Cambrian Coast Newtown Oakham Stamford Wellington COUN Thetford Aberystwyth Line Burton-on- Leicester Diss Trent Melton March Peterborough Lowestoft Church Stretton Stafford MIDMowbray Bury East Telford Central Cosford Suffolk Beccles Hinckley St Edmunds Line LAN Arms Rugeley CROSS Market Corby Harborough Huntingdon Woodbridge Saxmundham Stowmarket Walsall Lichfield D Knighton Wolverhampton Newmarket Westerfield Snow Tamworth Kettering MAIN Ipswich Sandwell & Ludlow Nuneaton Smethwick Felixstowe Llandrindod Trent Valley Line Marches Stourbridge Town New Sandy Manningtree Line Wellingborough Harwich Stourbridge Junction Street International LINE Stansted BIRMINGHAM RY Coventry Royston Builth Road Leominster Moor Airport Street Rugby Hitchin Colchester Thorpe-le-Soken Kidderminster Northampton Bedford Walton-on-the-Naze Heart Solihull Warwick Stevenage Llanwrtyd Wells of Wales Line Bromsgrove Sudbury Colchester COUNTRedditch Milton Ledbury Leamington Hertford Bishops Stortford Town Hereford Spa Keynes Luton Clacton-on-Sea Stratford- Braintree Marks Tey Droitwich Spa Marston Welwyn Llandovery on-Avon Vale Line NE Great CROSS Banbury Broxbourne Shrub Hill Bletchley St Albans Enfield Malvern Witham Fishguard Merthyr Foregate Street Potters Tydfil Rhymney Ebbw Vale Cotswold Bar Harbour Clarbeston Road Llandeilo Aberdare Worcester Line North Bicester Chingford Abergavenny Moreton-in- Aylesbury Chelmsford Whitland Treherbert Evesham Marsh Town Watford Junction Crouch Valley Line Haverfordwest Carmarthen Valley Lines Cheltenham Spa West Hampstead

Caerphilly COUNTRY Princes Dalston Shenfield Milford Haven Coryton Gloucester Charlbury Risborough Tenby Pontypridd Pontypool Stroud Willesden Romford Junction Rayleigh Pembroke Lydney Golden Valley High Llanelli Neath Radyr Oxford Wycombe Stratford Maesteg CARDIFF Chepstow Line St Pancras King’s Victoria Kemble Didcot Marlow Port Central Queen Street Parkway Bourne Cross Henley Euston Upminster Southend Swansea Talbot Severn Tunnel GT WESTERN End Shoeburyness Parkway Marylebone Liverpool Central Bridgend Severn Severn Parkway Slough Paddington Barry Bay Newport Tunnel Beach Swindon Street Rhoose Penarth Junction BRISTOL Fenchurch Street Tilbury Town Barry Reading Charing Cardiff Windsor Victoria Cross Blackfriars Island Temple Meads Chippenham Heathrow Cannon Street Ebbsfleet Sheerness-on-Sea International Kensington Dartford Gravesend Airport Bath Trowbridge Newbury London Bridge Weston-super-Mare HIGH SPEEDStrood 1 Spa Berks & Hants Line Wokingham Richmond Waterloo Swanley Faversham CROSS Farnborough Margate Frome GT WESTERN Woking Westbury Basingstoke North Clapham J Bromley Otford Chatham Herne Bay Bridgwater Streatham South Ramsgate W Barnstaple Castle Farnborough Sutton East Tarka Taunton Cary Warminster Croydon Canterbury Line Aldershot Orpington Deal Guildford Epsom E E Eggesford Heart of Andover Alton Oxted Maidstone Tiverton Wessex Ashford Parkway Line Winchester Dorking Redhill Sevenoaks Tonbridge W Summer Salisbury Sundays only Dover Okehampton Pen Haslemere Gatwick Paddock Folkestone EXETER Mill Romsey Airport Wood Crediton Sherborne Eastleigh Three Bridges Central Central Honiton Junction Crawley East Tunbridge Grinstead Rye Marsh Newton Abbot Yeovil Airport Parkway Wells Link Channel St Davids Crewkerne Southampton Petersfield Haywards Uckfield Tunnel Gunnislake Bere Avocet Horsham Heath Tamar Alston Line Central Fareham Valley Maiden Newton Coastway Line Line Exmouth West Coastway Line Hastings Totnes Chichester Worthing Lewes East Newquay Keyham Torquay Wareham Bournemouth Dorchester Atlantic Havant Barnham Newhaven Coast Liskeard Plymouth W Brockenhurst Brighton Continental Line Bodmin S Littlehampton Eastbourne Europe Parkway Paignton Poole Portsmouth Bognor Seaford Lymington Regis Looe St Austell Weymouth Ryde Par St Ives Truro Island Line Sandown Maritime Shanklin St Erth Line © 2011 Andrew Smithers Penzance V16.9 28/1/11 No reproduction without written permission Falmouth

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