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I want to travel to the UK to take photos of the closed Cambridge-Mildenhall railway.
I‘d like to find at least one place with all three tracks, however I can't see any rails on Google Maps. Do the rails still exist? If so, could you please help me find a location with all three rails? Preferably with google maps location.
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I want to travel to the UK to take photos of the closed Cambridge-Mildenhall railway.
I‘d like to find at least one place with all three tracks, however I can't see any rails on Google Maps. Do the rails still exist? If so, could you please help me find a location with all three rails? Preferably with google maps location.
uk maps train-stations
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Is there a reason that you need to use google maps to do this? Or is your real question just how you can find the trails? And what exactly do you mean by "trails"?
– Chris H
10 hours ago
I only need to make sure the rails exist. Trails: 1 2 3
– user100347
10 hours ago
Are you aware of this show: telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/…
– MastaBaba
9 hours ago
@MastaBaba No, I didn't, thanks!
– user100347
9 hours ago
Not sure how well this works in the UK, but a lot of abandoned railroad rights-of-way in the U.S. can still be traced in GM's map view if you zoom in far enough for the property lines to show up (example).
– Sean
2 hours ago
add a comment |
I want to travel to the UK to take photos of the closed Cambridge-Mildenhall railway.
I‘d like to find at least one place with all three tracks, however I can't see any rails on Google Maps. Do the rails still exist? If so, could you please help me find a location with all three rails? Preferably with google maps location.
uk maps train-stations
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I want to travel to the UK to take photos of the closed Cambridge-Mildenhall railway.
I‘d like to find at least one place with all three tracks, however I can't see any rails on Google Maps. Do the rails still exist? If so, could you please help me find a location with all three rails? Preferably with google maps location.
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Is there a reason that you need to use google maps to do this? Or is your real question just how you can find the trails? And what exactly do you mean by "trails"?
– Chris H
10 hours ago
I only need to make sure the rails exist. Trails: 1 2 3
– user100347
10 hours ago
Are you aware of this show: telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/…
– MastaBaba
9 hours ago
@MastaBaba No, I didn't, thanks!
– user100347
9 hours ago
Not sure how well this works in the UK, but a lot of abandoned railroad rights-of-way in the U.S. can still be traced in GM's map view if you zoom in far enough for the property lines to show up (example).
– Sean
2 hours ago
add a comment |
2
Is there a reason that you need to use google maps to do this? Or is your real question just how you can find the trails? And what exactly do you mean by "trails"?
– Chris H
10 hours ago
I only need to make sure the rails exist. Trails: 1 2 3
– user100347
10 hours ago
Are you aware of this show: telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/…
– MastaBaba
9 hours ago
@MastaBaba No, I didn't, thanks!
– user100347
9 hours ago
Not sure how well this works in the UK, but a lot of abandoned railroad rights-of-way in the U.S. can still be traced in GM's map view if you zoom in far enough for the property lines to show up (example).
– Sean
2 hours ago
2
2
Is there a reason that you need to use google maps to do this? Or is your real question just how you can find the trails? And what exactly do you mean by "trails"?
– Chris H
10 hours ago
Is there a reason that you need to use google maps to do this? Or is your real question just how you can find the trails? And what exactly do you mean by "trails"?
– Chris H
10 hours ago
I only need to make sure the rails exist. Trails: 1 2 3
– user100347
10 hours ago
I only need to make sure the rails exist. Trails: 1 2 3
– user100347
10 hours ago
Are you aware of this show: telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/…
– MastaBaba
9 hours ago
Are you aware of this show: telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/…
– MastaBaba
9 hours ago
@MastaBaba No, I didn't, thanks!
– user100347
9 hours ago
@MastaBaba No, I didn't, thanks!
– user100347
9 hours ago
Not sure how well this works in the UK, but a lot of abandoned railroad rights-of-way in the U.S. can still be traced in GM's map view if you zoom in far enough for the property lines to show up (example).
– Sean
2 hours ago
Not sure how well this works in the UK, but a lot of abandoned railroad rights-of-way in the U.S. can still be traced in GM's map view if you zoom in far enough for the property lines to show up (example).
– Sean
2 hours ago
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A late answer.
Barnwell Junction on the Wikipedia map you linked still exists, just as a branch to service factories, and the rail track at this part still exists, but not very far.
Parts of the line from there to Isleham and Mildenhall are marked on the 1:50000 Ordnance Survey maps as "dismantled railway" or "dismtd rly".
OS maps can be viewed online as streetmap.co.uk and a fragment of the route can be seen from a Mildenhall search, just below bottom left. Best viewed at 1:50000 scale.
Here is a clip from an OS map of the route from Barnwell Junction, which is at the bottom left of the image.
Here is the same route as seen on Google Earth.
The route crosses High Ditch Road under a bridge that still exists, then the A14 highway crosses it with no bridge, as the railway was already defunct at the time of its construction. It is likely that there are other parts which remain, and you can find them using a combination of these tools, possibly with Google Streetview too, to see where bridges still exist.
It is unlikely that any of the rest of the track itself still exists, and in places the route has been built over or ploughed. In other places is it used as farm tracks, and there are hints of this on the OS maps, guessed from their location and direction. From Google Earth, traces of the route can be seen even where ploughed over.
Below is a clip from Google Earth, showing the former Barnwell Junction station (at the bottom) and the railway track running past its left side and further up, on to the factories, where it stops. The tracks on the left are the main Cambridge to Ely route.
2
+1, the alignment of old railways is often very easy to spot on the areophotos even many decades after the line closed. And when it isn't, then it's unlikely there will be anything to see on the ground anyway.
– Henning Makholm
8 hours ago
1
@HenningMakholm similarly with the numerous WW2 airfields which were almost shoulder to shoulder across East Anglia. Many have been returned to a mixture of farming and warehousing, but from Google Earth, the ploughed-over runways can be detected.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
Thanks and congrats for finding. If someone wants to see, here's the zoomed-in map.
– user100347
7 hours ago
That is a view of The Leper Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene just to the south of the former Barnwell Junction railway station. The former station building has been converted to a private residence. Sometimes the map flags are not very accurately placed.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
...but you can see from a close-up on Google Earth, that the track still runs past the old station and towards the factories, after which it stops. I added the picture.
– Weather Vane
6 hours ago
add a comment |
For the UK, Ireland, and the west coast of the US, I know no better online resource for this than Rail Map Online. It allows you to view all the railways that have ever existed in the UK overlayed onto various maps (including Google Maps and OpenStreetMap).
add a comment |
I don't know about the specific railway you mention, but there were a lot of railway closures in the 1960s and I don't know of any where the rails still exist. Quite often they have been converted to footpaths/cycleways.
My understanding is that the rails were generally sold for scrap rather than abandoned.
EDIT Looking at Mildenhall station and the old route confirms that (at least most of) the rails are no longer there.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.33656/0.50065&layers=HN
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The National Library of Scotland has digitized a lot of old UK maps (and some world-wide). It will display the old map overlaid with a new one, with a range of dates for the old map. The new map can either be a satellite, road, or OS.
The range of old maps is better in Scotland, but elsewhere in the UK there is a reasonable selection available.
The site makes it easy to visualise the old map in relation to current maps. If you use an old map between about 1920 and 1963 (the beeching cuts), it will show the old railways. Later maps will show the route of old railways until they have been built over.
For example,
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=52.2190&lon=0.2069&layers=11&b=3
Change the transparency (bottom left) from 100% to 75%
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It is also currently shown in Open Street Map.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/317247
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A late answer.
Barnwell Junction on the Wikipedia map you linked still exists, just as a branch to service factories, and the rail track at this part still exists, but not very far.
Parts of the line from there to Isleham and Mildenhall are marked on the 1:50000 Ordnance Survey maps as "dismantled railway" or "dismtd rly".
OS maps can be viewed online as streetmap.co.uk and a fragment of the route can be seen from a Mildenhall search, just below bottom left. Best viewed at 1:50000 scale.
Here is a clip from an OS map of the route from Barnwell Junction, which is at the bottom left of the image.
Here is the same route as seen on Google Earth.
The route crosses High Ditch Road under a bridge that still exists, then the A14 highway crosses it with no bridge, as the railway was already defunct at the time of its construction. It is likely that there are other parts which remain, and you can find them using a combination of these tools, possibly with Google Streetview too, to see where bridges still exist.
It is unlikely that any of the rest of the track itself still exists, and in places the route has been built over or ploughed. In other places is it used as farm tracks, and there are hints of this on the OS maps, guessed from their location and direction. From Google Earth, traces of the route can be seen even where ploughed over.
Below is a clip from Google Earth, showing the former Barnwell Junction station (at the bottom) and the railway track running past its left side and further up, on to the factories, where it stops. The tracks on the left are the main Cambridge to Ely route.
2
+1, the alignment of old railways is often very easy to spot on the areophotos even many decades after the line closed. And when it isn't, then it's unlikely there will be anything to see on the ground anyway.
– Henning Makholm
8 hours ago
1
@HenningMakholm similarly with the numerous WW2 airfields which were almost shoulder to shoulder across East Anglia. Many have been returned to a mixture of farming and warehousing, but from Google Earth, the ploughed-over runways can be detected.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
Thanks and congrats for finding. If someone wants to see, here's the zoomed-in map.
– user100347
7 hours ago
That is a view of The Leper Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene just to the south of the former Barnwell Junction railway station. The former station building has been converted to a private residence. Sometimes the map flags are not very accurately placed.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
...but you can see from a close-up on Google Earth, that the track still runs past the old station and towards the factories, after which it stops. I added the picture.
– Weather Vane
6 hours ago
add a comment |
A late answer.
Barnwell Junction on the Wikipedia map you linked still exists, just as a branch to service factories, and the rail track at this part still exists, but not very far.
Parts of the line from there to Isleham and Mildenhall are marked on the 1:50000 Ordnance Survey maps as "dismantled railway" or "dismtd rly".
OS maps can be viewed online as streetmap.co.uk and a fragment of the route can be seen from a Mildenhall search, just below bottom left. Best viewed at 1:50000 scale.
Here is a clip from an OS map of the route from Barnwell Junction, which is at the bottom left of the image.
Here is the same route as seen on Google Earth.
The route crosses High Ditch Road under a bridge that still exists, then the A14 highway crosses it with no bridge, as the railway was already defunct at the time of its construction. It is likely that there are other parts which remain, and you can find them using a combination of these tools, possibly with Google Streetview too, to see where bridges still exist.
It is unlikely that any of the rest of the track itself still exists, and in places the route has been built over or ploughed. In other places is it used as farm tracks, and there are hints of this on the OS maps, guessed from their location and direction. From Google Earth, traces of the route can be seen even where ploughed over.
Below is a clip from Google Earth, showing the former Barnwell Junction station (at the bottom) and the railway track running past its left side and further up, on to the factories, where it stops. The tracks on the left are the main Cambridge to Ely route.
2
+1, the alignment of old railways is often very easy to spot on the areophotos even many decades after the line closed. And when it isn't, then it's unlikely there will be anything to see on the ground anyway.
– Henning Makholm
8 hours ago
1
@HenningMakholm similarly with the numerous WW2 airfields which were almost shoulder to shoulder across East Anglia. Many have been returned to a mixture of farming and warehousing, but from Google Earth, the ploughed-over runways can be detected.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
Thanks and congrats for finding. If someone wants to see, here's the zoomed-in map.
– user100347
7 hours ago
That is a view of The Leper Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene just to the south of the former Barnwell Junction railway station. The former station building has been converted to a private residence. Sometimes the map flags are not very accurately placed.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
...but you can see from a close-up on Google Earth, that the track still runs past the old station and towards the factories, after which it stops. I added the picture.
– Weather Vane
6 hours ago
add a comment |
A late answer.
Barnwell Junction on the Wikipedia map you linked still exists, just as a branch to service factories, and the rail track at this part still exists, but not very far.
Parts of the line from there to Isleham and Mildenhall are marked on the 1:50000 Ordnance Survey maps as "dismantled railway" or "dismtd rly".
OS maps can be viewed online as streetmap.co.uk and a fragment of the route can be seen from a Mildenhall search, just below bottom left. Best viewed at 1:50000 scale.
Here is a clip from an OS map of the route from Barnwell Junction, which is at the bottom left of the image.
Here is the same route as seen on Google Earth.
The route crosses High Ditch Road under a bridge that still exists, then the A14 highway crosses it with no bridge, as the railway was already defunct at the time of its construction. It is likely that there are other parts which remain, and you can find them using a combination of these tools, possibly with Google Streetview too, to see where bridges still exist.
It is unlikely that any of the rest of the track itself still exists, and in places the route has been built over or ploughed. In other places is it used as farm tracks, and there are hints of this on the OS maps, guessed from their location and direction. From Google Earth, traces of the route can be seen even where ploughed over.
Below is a clip from Google Earth, showing the former Barnwell Junction station (at the bottom) and the railway track running past its left side and further up, on to the factories, where it stops. The tracks on the left are the main Cambridge to Ely route.
A late answer.
Barnwell Junction on the Wikipedia map you linked still exists, just as a branch to service factories, and the rail track at this part still exists, but not very far.
Parts of the line from there to Isleham and Mildenhall are marked on the 1:50000 Ordnance Survey maps as "dismantled railway" or "dismtd rly".
OS maps can be viewed online as streetmap.co.uk and a fragment of the route can be seen from a Mildenhall search, just below bottom left. Best viewed at 1:50000 scale.
Here is a clip from an OS map of the route from Barnwell Junction, which is at the bottom left of the image.
Here is the same route as seen on Google Earth.
The route crosses High Ditch Road under a bridge that still exists, then the A14 highway crosses it with no bridge, as the railway was already defunct at the time of its construction. It is likely that there are other parts which remain, and you can find them using a combination of these tools, possibly with Google Streetview too, to see where bridges still exist.
It is unlikely that any of the rest of the track itself still exists, and in places the route has been built over or ploughed. In other places is it used as farm tracks, and there are hints of this on the OS maps, guessed from their location and direction. From Google Earth, traces of the route can be seen even where ploughed over.
Below is a clip from Google Earth, showing the former Barnwell Junction station (at the bottom) and the railway track running past its left side and further up, on to the factories, where it stops. The tracks on the left are the main Cambridge to Ely route.
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+1, the alignment of old railways is often very easy to spot on the areophotos even many decades after the line closed. And when it isn't, then it's unlikely there will be anything to see on the ground anyway.
– Henning Makholm
8 hours ago
1
@HenningMakholm similarly with the numerous WW2 airfields which were almost shoulder to shoulder across East Anglia. Many have been returned to a mixture of farming and warehousing, but from Google Earth, the ploughed-over runways can be detected.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
Thanks and congrats for finding. If someone wants to see, here's the zoomed-in map.
– user100347
7 hours ago
That is a view of The Leper Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene just to the south of the former Barnwell Junction railway station. The former station building has been converted to a private residence. Sometimes the map flags are not very accurately placed.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
...but you can see from a close-up on Google Earth, that the track still runs past the old station and towards the factories, after which it stops. I added the picture.
– Weather Vane
6 hours ago
add a comment |
2
+1, the alignment of old railways is often very easy to spot on the areophotos even many decades after the line closed. And when it isn't, then it's unlikely there will be anything to see on the ground anyway.
– Henning Makholm
8 hours ago
1
@HenningMakholm similarly with the numerous WW2 airfields which were almost shoulder to shoulder across East Anglia. Many have been returned to a mixture of farming and warehousing, but from Google Earth, the ploughed-over runways can be detected.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
Thanks and congrats for finding. If someone wants to see, here's the zoomed-in map.
– user100347
7 hours ago
That is a view of The Leper Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene just to the south of the former Barnwell Junction railway station. The former station building has been converted to a private residence. Sometimes the map flags are not very accurately placed.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
...but you can see from a close-up on Google Earth, that the track still runs past the old station and towards the factories, after which it stops. I added the picture.
– Weather Vane
6 hours ago
2
2
+1, the alignment of old railways is often very easy to spot on the areophotos even many decades after the line closed. And when it isn't, then it's unlikely there will be anything to see on the ground anyway.
– Henning Makholm
8 hours ago
+1, the alignment of old railways is often very easy to spot on the areophotos even many decades after the line closed. And when it isn't, then it's unlikely there will be anything to see on the ground anyway.
– Henning Makholm
8 hours ago
1
1
@HenningMakholm similarly with the numerous WW2 airfields which were almost shoulder to shoulder across East Anglia. Many have been returned to a mixture of farming and warehousing, but from Google Earth, the ploughed-over runways can be detected.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
@HenningMakholm similarly with the numerous WW2 airfields which were almost shoulder to shoulder across East Anglia. Many have been returned to a mixture of farming and warehousing, but from Google Earth, the ploughed-over runways can be detected.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
Thanks and congrats for finding. If someone wants to see, here's the zoomed-in map.
– user100347
7 hours ago
Thanks and congrats for finding. If someone wants to see, here's the zoomed-in map.
– user100347
7 hours ago
That is a view of The Leper Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene just to the south of the former Barnwell Junction railway station. The former station building has been converted to a private residence. Sometimes the map flags are not very accurately placed.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
That is a view of The Leper Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene just to the south of the former Barnwell Junction railway station. The former station building has been converted to a private residence. Sometimes the map flags are not very accurately placed.
– Weather Vane
7 hours ago
...but you can see from a close-up on Google Earth, that the track still runs past the old station and towards the factories, after which it stops. I added the picture.
– Weather Vane
6 hours ago
...but you can see from a close-up on Google Earth, that the track still runs past the old station and towards the factories, after which it stops. I added the picture.
– Weather Vane
6 hours ago
add a comment |
For the UK, Ireland, and the west coast of the US, I know no better online resource for this than Rail Map Online. It allows you to view all the railways that have ever existed in the UK overlayed onto various maps (including Google Maps and OpenStreetMap).
add a comment |
For the UK, Ireland, and the west coast of the US, I know no better online resource for this than Rail Map Online. It allows you to view all the railways that have ever existed in the UK overlayed onto various maps (including Google Maps and OpenStreetMap).
add a comment |
For the UK, Ireland, and the west coast of the US, I know no better online resource for this than Rail Map Online. It allows you to view all the railways that have ever existed in the UK overlayed onto various maps (including Google Maps and OpenStreetMap).
For the UK, Ireland, and the west coast of the US, I know no better online resource for this than Rail Map Online. It allows you to view all the railways that have ever existed in the UK overlayed onto various maps (including Google Maps and OpenStreetMap).
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I don't know about the specific railway you mention, but there were a lot of railway closures in the 1960s and I don't know of any where the rails still exist. Quite often they have been converted to footpaths/cycleways.
My understanding is that the rails were generally sold for scrap rather than abandoned.
EDIT Looking at Mildenhall station and the old route confirms that (at least most of) the rails are no longer there.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.33656/0.50065&layers=HN
add a comment |
I don't know about the specific railway you mention, but there were a lot of railway closures in the 1960s and I don't know of any where the rails still exist. Quite often they have been converted to footpaths/cycleways.
My understanding is that the rails were generally sold for scrap rather than abandoned.
EDIT Looking at Mildenhall station and the old route confirms that (at least most of) the rails are no longer there.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.33656/0.50065&layers=HN
add a comment |
I don't know about the specific railway you mention, but there were a lot of railway closures in the 1960s and I don't know of any where the rails still exist. Quite often they have been converted to footpaths/cycleways.
My understanding is that the rails were generally sold for scrap rather than abandoned.
EDIT Looking at Mildenhall station and the old route confirms that (at least most of) the rails are no longer there.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.33656/0.50065&layers=HN
I don't know about the specific railway you mention, but there were a lot of railway closures in the 1960s and I don't know of any where the rails still exist. Quite often they have been converted to footpaths/cycleways.
My understanding is that the rails were generally sold for scrap rather than abandoned.
EDIT Looking at Mildenhall station and the old route confirms that (at least most of) the rails are no longer there.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/52.33656/0.50065&layers=HN
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The National Library of Scotland has digitized a lot of old UK maps (and some world-wide). It will display the old map overlaid with a new one, with a range of dates for the old map. The new map can either be a satellite, road, or OS.
The range of old maps is better in Scotland, but elsewhere in the UK there is a reasonable selection available.
The site makes it easy to visualise the old map in relation to current maps. If you use an old map between about 1920 and 1963 (the beeching cuts), it will show the old railways. Later maps will show the route of old railways until they have been built over.
For example,
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=52.2190&lon=0.2069&layers=11&b=3
Change the transparency (bottom left) from 100% to 75%
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The National Library of Scotland has digitized a lot of old UK maps (and some world-wide). It will display the old map overlaid with a new one, with a range of dates for the old map. The new map can either be a satellite, road, or OS.
The range of old maps is better in Scotland, but elsewhere in the UK there is a reasonable selection available.
The site makes it easy to visualise the old map in relation to current maps. If you use an old map between about 1920 and 1963 (the beeching cuts), it will show the old railways. Later maps will show the route of old railways until they have been built over.
For example,
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=52.2190&lon=0.2069&layers=11&b=3
Change the transparency (bottom left) from 100% to 75%
add a comment |
The National Library of Scotland has digitized a lot of old UK maps (and some world-wide). It will display the old map overlaid with a new one, with a range of dates for the old map. The new map can either be a satellite, road, or OS.
The range of old maps is better in Scotland, but elsewhere in the UK there is a reasonable selection available.
The site makes it easy to visualise the old map in relation to current maps. If you use an old map between about 1920 and 1963 (the beeching cuts), it will show the old railways. Later maps will show the route of old railways until they have been built over.
For example,
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=52.2190&lon=0.2069&layers=11&b=3
Change the transparency (bottom left) from 100% to 75%
The National Library of Scotland has digitized a lot of old UK maps (and some world-wide). It will display the old map overlaid with a new one, with a range of dates for the old map. The new map can either be a satellite, road, or OS.
The range of old maps is better in Scotland, but elsewhere in the UK there is a reasonable selection available.
The site makes it easy to visualise the old map in relation to current maps. If you use an old map between about 1920 and 1963 (the beeching cuts), it will show the old railways. Later maps will show the route of old railways until they have been built over.
For example,
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=52.2190&lon=0.2069&layers=11&b=3
Change the transparency (bottom left) from 100% to 75%
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It is also currently shown in Open Street Map.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/317247
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It is also currently shown in Open Street Map.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/317247
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It is also currently shown in Open Street Map.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/317247
It is also currently shown in Open Street Map.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/317247
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Is there a reason that you need to use google maps to do this? Or is your real question just how you can find the trails? And what exactly do you mean by "trails"?
– Chris H
10 hours ago
I only need to make sure the rails exist. Trails: 1 2 3
– user100347
10 hours ago
Are you aware of this show: telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/…
– MastaBaba
9 hours ago
@MastaBaba No, I didn't, thanks!
– user100347
9 hours ago
Not sure how well this works in the UK, but a lot of abandoned railroad rights-of-way in the U.S. can still be traced in GM's map view if you zoom in far enough for the property lines to show up (example).
– Sean
2 hours ago