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| Visual rail history timeline down under 17/10/2024 at 11:01 #158899 | |
flabberdacks
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Just saw this linked on Reddit A visual description of the expansion of rail coverage in Australia and New Zealand over time, how quite a bit of it was scaled back once air and personal motor travel became affordable, and the downright embarrassing gauge conflicts between individual colonies that was never standardised and is still a barrier to this day. https://railhistory.io/ Are there equivalent sites for other railways around the world? Log in to reply |
| Visual rail history timeline down under 17/10/2024 at 12:37 #158900 | |
Robyn
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flabberdacks in post 158899 said:Just saw this linked on RedditThe closest thing that I can think of For England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and the western frontiers of the U.S.A. is railmaponline.com. Doesn't have the sliding timeline bar but it does show every railway that has ever existed for the covered area, and where applicable links to the relevant Wikipedia article about that line. It also maps the industrial canals of England! 7-5-5, closing of comment Log in to reply |