08-12-2021, 09:53 AM
(08-10-2021, 09:20 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I just had a sad moment where I realized that this map is probably close to representing what our train services actually looked like at some point in history.
They definitely did. OpenRailwayMap lets you map out old abandoned tracks, though you have to zoom in fairly closely for them to be displayed. Not all of them were passenger services, but many were and they went to all sorts of small little towns. You can also find lots of old railway maps on DuckDuckGo or Google Images that give you a sense of how vast the rail network was back in the day. We lost a lot to the car.