Here is a map showing every single tram, tube and train line in Britian:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/passenger_services/maps/nationalrailnetworkmapZoom.pdf

Also showing the different operators. Sneak peak of central London:

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1959/65832813.png

Fantastic!

Awsome map!! You can see how London is so dense compared to the rest of the country! Props to the man who did this map, especially for the London part

Let me share maps of Latvian railways:

The current map
http://www.ldz.lv/uploaded_images/kartes/latvija.jpg

And a map of 1938 for comaprison, note the different gauges
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/lv/d/dc/Latvijas_dzelzcelju_sheema_1938._gadaa.jpg


A map of Rail Baltica project that would conncet Helsinki with Berlin:

http://www.rail-baltica.com/uploads/filedir/Image/item_275_bilde.jpg

For South Africa:

http://www.sa-transport.co.za/trains/maps/passenger_services_2006.GIF

Route timetables (http://www.shosholozameyl.co.za/html-site/routes-main.html)

Gautrain, the new "High Speed" network in Gauteng province:

http://www.gautrain.co.za/contents/bidder/09_route/Gautrain_map.jpg

signol

sydney rail maps
picture is here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cityrail
ral map is somewhere on the page

Here is a map showing every single tram, tube and train line in Britian:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/passenger_services/maps/nationalrailnetworkmapZoom.pdf

Also showing the different operators. Sneak peak of central London:



BEST MAP EVER.

BEST MAP EVER.

I think the cartography's really poor

Those are all the relevant maps I could find so far regarding the railway system in Romania (Căile Ferate Române -C.F.R.), the 4-th railway system in Europe acording to wikipedia.
The first railway in Romania was open on 20-th of August 1854 linking two small towns Oravița and Baziaș, back then in the austro-hungarian empire. It was a railway whose main purpose was to transport coal.
Today the network consists of 20730 kms, 13807 kms in between the stations and 6923 kms in the stations. 17535 kms are of public use while the rest - 3197 kms belongs to private owners.
Most of the rail-system, bridges, infrastructure requires immediate maintenance and are in poor condition, thus the speed decreases that occurs year after year.
There are several sections under heavy reconstruction and slow works are going on for upgrading the speed to 160km/h(pathetic if you'd ask me, they should have done it for 200km/h) but anyway that's happening on 2-3% of the entire network, so it is like a drop in the ocean The entire network is in decline and doomed to oblivion because of to the lack of interest and funds.

Romanian railway network maps :

1. C.F.R. 1921
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1921.jpg

2. C.F.R. 1938
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1938.jpg

3. C.F.R. 1940
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1940.jpg

4. C.F.R. 1953
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1953.jpg

5. C.F.R. 1958
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1958.jpg

6. C.F.R. 1961
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1961.jpg

7. C.F.R. 1964
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1964.jpg

8. C.F.R. 1966
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1966.jpg

9. C.F.R. 1974
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1974.jpg

10. C.F.R. 1980
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1980.jpg

11. C.F.R. 1985
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1985.jpg

12. C.F.R. 1990
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1990.jpg

13. C.F.R. 1992-1993
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/cfr1992-93.jpg

14. harta C.F.R. actuala ( one of the latest C.F.R. maps)
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/harta_cfr.jpg

15. harta feroviara (a railway map with all the stations from romainian railway system.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/domogled/cfr/harta_feroviara.jpg

16. a map with the main routes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Romania-cfr.svg/2000px-Romania-cfr.svg.png

China convitional railway map
http://www.johomaps.com/as/china/chinarail.jpg

China (opened) Highspeed railway map
http://www.johomaps.com/as/china/china_hsr.jpg

Map on wiki:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/High_Speed_Railroad_Map_Europe_2008.gif

Explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Europe

:applause:

In Austria trains come in all colours and shapes and in fact Europe's fastest locomotive (the world record one) has a black front: Taurus 1216 050, google it.

So please don't make up any rules that don't exit.

:applause:

That map is completely outdated, infact the one you quoted is a 2008 post

Here the most updated (Dec 2009) from wiki

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/High_Speed_Railroad_Map_Europe_2009.gif

^^ Actually some lines marked in black aren't under construction now.

yes, its a bit optimistic...

by far the most interesting is the turkish development, their economy is screaming

^^ Actually some lines marked in black aren't under construction now.

Agreed. Some of the "black lines" are in reality lines in a more-or-less advanced stage of planning.

Moreover, there are some other little inaccuracies. In the case of France, the prolongation of LGV-Est from Baudrecourt to Strasbourg, for example, IS under construction now.

From Moroccan Forum : High-Speed Railway Networks around The World (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1173105&page=6) (p6)

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1204/tgv305c.jpg
http://lgv-pocl.fr/cartes-et-documents-2/

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r257/sotavento/Mapinhas/WesternEurope14.jpg

HSR Lines accross Europe

http://a.imageshack.us/img37/5012/highspeedrailroadmapeur.jpg

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/8/14/1250260450859/High-speed-rail-graphic-002.jpg

The figures of the last map come from : IUC
http://www.uic.org/IMG/pdf/20100521_a1_high_speed_lines_in_the_world.pdf

Les données de ce graphique viennent de http://www.uic.org/IMG/pdf/20100521_a1_high_speed_lines_in_the_world.pdf


Europe

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/3372/34874820.jpg (http://img836.imageshack.us/my.php?image=34874820.jpg)

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/8070/11844626.jpg (http://img825.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11844626.jpg)

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5246/15040926.jpg (http://img130.imageshack.us/my.php?image=15040926.jpg)

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/6057/88073634.jpg (http://img842.imageshack.us/my.php?image=88073634.jpg)

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6853/65320945.jpg (http://img819.imageshack.us/my.php?image=65320945.jpg)

Asie

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6461/13902315.jpg (http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=13902315.jpg)

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1192/56744249.jpg (http://img820.imageshack.us/my.php?image=56744249.jpg)

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/7705/93939383.jpg (http://img827.imageshack.us/my.php?image=93939383.jpg)

http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/6743/51652452.jpg (http://img576.imageshack.us/my.php?image=51652452.jpg)

Reste du monde

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/8897/20038491.jpg (http://img812.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20038491.jpg)

Les 680km au Maroc correspondent à Tanger-Marrakech. L'IUC inclut les voies à plus de 200km/h comme voie pour train à grande vitesse.

Messieurs, le service TGV de 750km et selon l'UIC un service de 750km de HSL. :cheers:

California High Speed Rail
http://sfcityscape.com/maps/more/CAHSR.gif

http://cdn.publicinterestnetwork.org/assets/3zpZ1COabArt4K19VFqwdg/high-speed-rail-map.jpg

San Francisco Bay Area Public Transportation
http://sfcityscape.com/maps/bay_area_transit/bay_rail.gif

Los Angeles Public Transportation (w/future extensions)
http://sfcityscape.com/maps/more/LA_measure_R.gif

The best railway map of Bulgaria I have seen. Blue - electrified, green - non-electrified, thick - double line, thin - single line


http://www.bueker.net/trainspotting/maps/bulgaria/bulgaria.gif

And here is the home page with rail maps of many other countries.
http://www.bueker.net/trainspotting/maps.php

^^ Please face reality ... the "common market" is a conglomerate of various individual groups of interests ...


point one - each and every train trying to cross the channel tunnel will need to comply to the rules aplied there (so no ICE3 would ever cross without large remodeling/modification) ...

point two - the "visibility" rules aply everywhere ... in the green UK it was deemed that a yellow front was the right choise ... the front of the train NEEDS to be visible ... usually they go with yellow fronts in GREENER countries and with RED fronts in places where it snows ... go figure. :cheers:
Yellow = UK , NL , Poland , Spain(until recently it was the official color) , Portugal(EMU's+shunters) , others
Red = Germany , Swithzerland , Austria , Portugal (locomotives+emu/dmu)


So for a ICE3 train to go to the UK it will need to have a yellow front and comply to the CT security rules ... it's "doable" ... just see the Eurostar trainsets ... pure TGV trainset with yellow cab/front and security measures implemented. :nuts:

And the remaining of your rant" is complete bias ... railways aply everywhere ...

Offtopic: in every environment (except in snow) the "white" color is a high visibility choise. :cheers:

Point , set , match!!! :lol:

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/nJY43P0VmB9NsGc13CH6bAQ1/full.jpg


We got our beloved Velaro-UK ... :okay::|:runaway::eek2:

Offtopic: in every environment (except in snow) the "white" color is a high visibility choise. :cheers:

White is very bad for visibility because when its cloudy it shows up darker and when its sunny its very bright and wouldn't stand out. Yellow doesn't do this. Also I don't think yellow looks bad for a train front anyway. I think it looks better than an all round single colour used and it shows where the front is better...

Yellow fronts may be more visible, but they sure ain't more pretty.

It will always be one (of the stupidest) point of debate this "high visibility" thing.


Some use lights and other forbid them ... some use simple balck fronts without any visibility and others demand bright and shiny collors.

Just treat the subject with the importance it has in reality ... wich is basically ... NONE WHATSOEVER.

:cheers:



From Moroccan Forum : High-Speed Railway Networks around The World (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1173105&page=6) (p6)

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5246/15040926.jpg

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/6057/88073634.jpg

The figures of the last map come from : IUC
http://www.uic.org/IMG/pdf/20100521_a1_high_speed_lines_in_the_world.pdf

One thing that I will never understand about UIC is their total LACK of proper standards ...


There are some 400km of upgraded routes above 200km/h wich they never list as HSR (some have no actual top limit nowadays, just the AP 220km/h value added)
They always inclued Zaragoza-Huesca wich tops at 200km/h in the spanish mileage.

:dunno:

One thing that I will never understand about UIC is their total LACK of proper standards ...


There are some 400km of upgraded routes above 200km/h wich they never list as HSR (some have no actual top limit nowadays, just the AP 220km/h value added)
They always inclued Zaragoza-Huesca wich tops at 200km/h in the spanish mileage.


I think that the UIC basically only summarizes what the different railway network authorities report to them...

Yellow fronts may be more visible, but they sure ain't more pretty.

As per Dft FOIA request, yellow fronts are NOT required on HS1, including Ashford Int. and St. Pancras Int.

The reason behind this:
Yellow fronts are required for "track worker" safety reasons.
HS1 operations has to be stopped before any maintenance can be conducted on the line. Therefore the Yellow front end rule does NOT apply to trains using HS1.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway is a regional rail link project to directly connect Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan. The project is scheduled for completion by 2012.

http://s56.radikal.ru/i152/1103/45/690e6a53472b.jpg

Pretty decent network....

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xoS3E7z0QKs/TXoRcquwRHI/AAAAAAAACNM/0Tt0rXLuu1I/s1600/tuberailcombined.png

http://www.railroadsignals.us/camden/CamdenLR.jpg

It's finally ready!:banana:

The first ever collection of official railway operators maps from every country in the world running passenger services is about to be released by Viking Penguin in the US!

RAILWAY MAPS OF THE WORLD is a full colour 144 page delight for all fans of rail cartography, showing the evolution of mapping from the Stockton-Darlington of 1825 to China's hi-speed network of the 2020's.

It also shows surveyors plans, proposals for lines which were never constructed, posters, timetable diagrams and signal box maps.

A number of SSC posters to this and other threads have been helpful in contributing to this compendium - you know who you are and I thank you for your contributions :cheers:

They and anyone who's ever loved pouring over rail maps or even doodling their own will hopefully absolutely love this book!

Here's the front cover:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61t2aZ-t7nL._SS500_.jpg
Here's a link to the publishers site:
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670022656,00.html?Railway_Maps_of_the_World_Mark_Ovenden

And here to the pre-order page on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Railway-Maps-World-Mark-Ovenden/dp/0670022659

It's available in hardback in America from end of April (British edition later this year)

I'll post some sneak preview page spreads soon just for SSC-ers!


Please accept my apologies for the shameless self-promotion, but we authors of specialist books need to be pro-active in this way!

Wow, yu've got the next one!
great! That would be awesome to see few samples from the book!

The Pan India Rail Network - Official Map.

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/5184/indianrailwaymap.jpg

^^ This is atleast 3 year old map.

^^ could you give a clue why?

oh yes. the Kashmir rail link is not there on the map :D

Heres (http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/india/india-railway-map.htm) the latest

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3959/indianrailwaymap1.jpg

The Pan India Rail Network - Official Map.

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/5184/indianrailwaymap.jpg

Note the spelling mistake on the first entry in the key!

thats why its the official map :D

It's finally ready!:banana:

The first ever collection of official railway operators maps from every country in the world running passenger services is about to be released by Viking Penguin in the US!

RAILWAY MAPS OF THE WORLD is a full colour 144 page delight for all fans of rail cartography, showing the evolution of mapping from the Stockton-Darlington of 1825 to China's hi-speed network of the 2020's.

It also shows surveyors plans, proposals for lines which were never constructed, posters, timetable diagrams and signal box maps.

A number of SSC posters to this and other threads have been helpful in contributing to this compendium - you know who you are and I thank you for your contributions :cheers:

They and anyone who's ever loved pouring over rail maps or even doodling their own will hopefully absolutely love this book!

Here's the front cover:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61t2aZ-t7nL._SS500_.jpg
Here's a link to the publishers site:
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670022656,00.html?Railway_Maps_of_the_World_Mark_Ovenden

And here to the pre-order page on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Railway-Maps-World-Mark-Ovenden/dp/0670022659

It's available in hardback in America from end of April (British edition later this year)

I'll post some sneak preview page spreads soon just for SSC-ers!


Please accept my apologies for the shameless self-promotion, but we authors of specialist books need to be pro-active in this way!

Woooooooooooooooop!

It's finally ready!:banana:

The first ever collection of official railway operators maps from every country in the world running passenger services is about to be released by Viking Penguin in the US!

RAILWAY MAPS OF THE WORLD is a full colour 144 page delight for all fans of rail cartography, showing the evolution of mapping from the Stockton-Darlington of 1825 to China's hi-speed network of the 2020's.

It also shows surveyors plans, proposals for lines which were never constructed, posters, timetable diagrams and signal box maps.

A number of SSC posters to this and other threads have been helpful in contributing to this compendium - you know who you are and I thank you for your contributions :cheers:

They and anyone who's ever loved pouring over rail maps or even doodling their own will hopefully absolutely love this book!

Here's the front cover:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61t2aZ-t7nL._SS500_.jpg
Here's a link to the publishers site:
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670022656,00.html?Railway_Maps_of_the_World_Mark_Ovenden

And here to the pre-order page on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Railway-Maps-World-Mark-Ovenden/dp/0670022659

It's available in hardback in America from end of April (British edition later this year)

I'll post some sneak preview page spreads soon just for SSC-ers!


Please accept my apologies for the shameless self-promotion, but we authors of specialist books need to be pro-active in this way!
Bravo! I thoroughly enjoyed the 1st pub

http://www.palmbux.com/forum/images/new-smilies/clap-animated-animation-clap-smiley-emoticon-000340-large.gif (http://www.palmbux.com/forum/images/new-smilies/)

Great start to publicity on the new book on international rail maps

http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2011/05/04/all-aboard-railway-maps-of-the-world/

Thought you map lovers might like to see this nice juxtaposition about how the railways clearly helped open up the great landmasses thanks to the transcontinental railroads!
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5109/5689783309_f6866e0229_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/61429601@N07/5689783309/)
RMOTW launch flyer-1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/61429601@N07/5689783309/) by Mark Ovenden Books (http://www.flickr.com/people/61429601@N07/), on Flickr

Nice to see the esteemed Wall Street Journal covering rail maps!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704569404576299162484453004.html#articleTabs%3Dslideshow

^^ Looks Good!

^^wow

Spain HSR PacoPaco´s map new version may 2011:

http://mapaferrocarril.pacopaco.es/

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/7930/mapatrenesespaapacopaco.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/833/mapatrenesespaapacopaco.png/)

:cheers:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5109/5689783309_f6866e0229_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/61429601@N07/5689783309/)
RMOTW launch flyer-1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/61429601@N07/5689783309/) by Mark Ovenden Books (http://www.flickr.com/people/61429601@N07/)

The St. Lawrence Valley's far too bright lighted for its relatively few inhabitants...

I wonder why they put a half of Portugal on that map of Spain but left the other half (places further from Spain) blank :lol:

National Public Radio just broadcast this fun piece on the lack of rail maps in Penn Station:
http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/aug/15/wheres-amtrak-display-map-penn-station/

wikipedia map new version

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3500/mapatreneuropa.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/155/mapatreneuropa.png/)

Still the same errors...

Moskva - Novgorod is 160 km|h.

And i thought that the Danish plans for the beginning of a HSR would be on, its a relative short line, meant to solve traffic congestion, but prepared for 250km/h. on completion its limited to 200 km/h. But that is probably unofficially because that the Danish DSB doesn't have trains that can go over 200, only a few German rented Velaro trains, and due to the European open rail network, 250 km/h would attract a foreign company offering lower travel times, with higher speed.

Iran
http://www.raja.ir/files/Maps/Map.jpg
http://www.rai.ir/skin/raihome_88/images/naghshe88.jpg
A little old but in english
http://iiny.org/img/iran/naghshe/5.gif

..
Map of railways in Europe with main operational lines shown in black, heritage railway lines in green and former routes in light blue:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1b/European_railway_map.jpg/800px-European_railway_map.jpg

I find mistakes in Spanish rails.

Some of black ones are closed since twenty years ago or more.

The green ones have just a different wide, but are operating every day.

^^ i also do find a lot in Denmark, missing mostly. But it gives a fine idea :)

Apparently green is more like narrow gauge railways than heritage railways. I doubt that companies like RhB in Switzerland or Mariazellerbahn in Austria would qualify as "heritage". Same is true for the narrow gauge lines in Greece ans other networks in Switzerland e. g.

http://www.railmaps.com.au/austrail.png

Hi there Great Railway Maps of the World launched this week :-)

Here is the first review:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/lines-of-beauty-a-collection-of-the-very-best-train-maps-2366020.html

Here's where to get it:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Railway-Maps-World-Ovenden/dp/1846143918

Another map of European HSR lines:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/HSR_in_Europe_2011-12_en.png/701px-HSR_in_Europe_2011-12_en.png (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/HSR_in_Europe_2011-12_en.png)

Another map of European HSR lines:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/HSR_in_Europe_2011-12_en.png/701px-HSR_in_Europe_2011-12_en.png (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/HSR_in_Europe_2011-12_en.png)

Glad to see the new addition to the TGV system but the Turkish ones are missing. Not only is there a section already working with over 250 km/h but there is work going on in the other lines as well.

Glad to see the new addition to the TGV system but the Turkish ones are missing. Not only is there a section already working with over 250 km/h but there is work going on in the other lines as well.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say on the matter:

The division between Asia and Europe is debated but under the commonly used definition, the border stretches along the Ural Mountains, Ural River, and Caspian Sea in the east, the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, with its outlets, the Bosporus and Dardanelles, in the south.

But they are worth mentioning (and the future Casablanca-Tangeri line, too).

On the other hand I don't see the point of showing some other lines in black.

They are non-hispeed lines with hi-speed services on them.

I don't see the point, anyway there are some lines used by non-high speed trains (like the Spanish part of Madrid-Lisbon) and some non HS lines used by TGV in France are not shown.

I don't see the point, anyway there are some lines used by non-high speed trains (like the Spanish part of Madrid-Lisbon) and some non HS lines used by TGV in France are not shown.
1. They state that there is a small part near Portugal board with V=200, so the entire service are shown.
2. They just doesn't know about these lines.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say on the matter:

That's not my point thought, I was just trying to say that in the space covered by the mad, Turkey is clearly visible and therefore would only help the map itself.

Tokyo subway map
Very complicated lines!!http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/abcde_cup/imgs/4/d/4d470abe.bmp