This may be of use for rail buffs. My daughter who is a civil engineer and who works on railway uses it for reference at work.
What appeals to me is the routes of old, long forgotton lines.
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Indeed, very interesting for a railway nerd like me. I have not seen this before so thanks for posting. Looking around it is not quite complete but a very interesting source all the same. For instance the old Yelverton to Princetown line across Dartmoor is not show in full.
It is all too apparent when I go on my travels on our narrowboat on the canals in the UK that there is a lot of abandoned railways.
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That’s really interesting for someone like me who loves both maps and railways, so thanks very much for posting the link.
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Kudos!
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Where there are gaps, i believe it is where there is bugger all evidance left. But even that is not always true.
Im amused by what it does include, especially where layouts in peoples ( albeit large) gardens are shown.
Some towns were very well served by rail, yet today its a token effort. Try Barnstaple for example.
Probably, but in the case of the example I gave you can walk pretty much the whole line to Princetown from Burrator halt. I have done it if anyone is on Dartmoor I recommend the walk especially as it skirts right around King’s Tor where there is little access otherwise. Oddly though playing around with it a bit more the rest of the line does appear if you zoom in further with a bit of a gap to Princetown but just shows a small tail from Yelverton zoomed further out. It must just be a factor of the zoom level detail
It does go into detail in places. I looked at where I lived which never had a railway running through the landscape nearby but the map names my house.
The rendering takes some time, so zoom in then out to wake it up ! Be careful, you will lose hours on this website. There is an app version, but it is IMO not as good/ well developed.
In this case it does not seem to a lag in showing detail. At one zoom level it shows the whole line at 1 mile scale but move out one to 3 mile scale it just shows a small stub.
A very good resource though. I shall be digging further.
Ah, snap (sort of)! My daughter’s just about to start working on the UK rail signalling system with Siemens. She’s ended up as an Electronic Engineer.
The world needs more female engineers.
Mark
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That’s brilliant thank you.
First time I’ve seen the Shotton loop on a map in decades. It omits the fact there was a tunnel but I’ve had friends and indeed my own parents query my suggestion any of this ever existed so it’s rather made my day.
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Many thanks for posting this rather wonderful resource!
Another, British Isles specific, resource.
https://railmaponline.com/UKIEMap.php
Willy.
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Ha, both are missing that vital segment, the Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway. 
Very interesting - even includes the Lydd Military Railway - nice one.
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Oooh. I didn’t know about that one, @suzywong ?
Going north up the hill from Cosham, I can remember the bridge over the road on the left that goes up past QAH (Southwick Hill Road). It’s gone now, but if you use goggle maps with street view, you can still see bits of brickwork and concrete.
There’s a Wikipedia page, and several other websites if you google for it. It was really a tramway.
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Thank you, @suzywong. I shall look that up.
Didnt realise the FH&S Tramway went up Canngate Road.
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I remember an online canal map “routes and roots” when we cruised the IW on our NB during the late 90’s. Waterways World published an article I had written about getting online when afloat. Basically using a PDA and an infra red link to a non smart phone!