Maps
Maps of Britain’s railways, drawn by GB Trains from the site’s own data: TfL’s lines in London along their tracks, and every operator’s routes across Great Britain.
Great Britain’s railways
- Thameslink
- LNR
- Avanti West Coast
- Southeastern
- Greater Anglia
- EMR
- LNER
- GWR
- Eurostar
- ScotRail
- Southern
- Great Northern
- Gatwick Express
- c2c
- Chiltern Railways
- South Western Railway
- Heathrow Express
- Caledonian Sleeper
- CrossCountry
- Grand Central
- Hull Trains
- Lumo
- Merseyrail
- Northern
- TransPennine Express
- Transport for Wales
- WMR
Schematic study, drawn from station coordinates (Powered by TfL Open Data). Not an official map. Coastline from Natural Earth. Motorways © OpenStreetMap contributors. The 1963 look follows the style of Map No. 1 in The Reshaping of British Railways (1963); its weights count routes on the site, not passengers.
About this map
Every operator on the site, on one map of Great Britain: each route through its stations, along the track it follows, in its operator’s colour. Zoom in for more of the stations’ names; the 1963 look weights each section by how many routes run over it.
A schematic drawn by GB Trains from the site’s own data, not an official map, and not any operator’s. Station coordinates: Powered by TfL Open Data. Track, motorways and the River Thames: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Where a hop has no track in the data it is a straight line; the River Thames’s width is a drawing aid. Fast services join their stops by the shortest track between them.
What is in doubt
- Avanti: the strips' station set was checked on 9 November 2026 against the book in force (17 May to 12 December 2026): the same 48 stations. The order of each strip and which trains call where are not re-checked; the strips still show every station the book lists for a route, and some trains skip some of them. The book also runs Chester and North Wales trains via Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton, which the strips (all via Stafford and Crewe) do not show as a separate route.
- Avanti: each strip shows every station the book lists for the route, not every train calls at all of them.
- Caledonian Sleeper: the strips show every station listed in either direction, and the website's own listings disagree (see unverified in data/national_rail.json).
- Eurostar: in Britain only St Pancras is a stop; the line through Stratford International, Ebbsfleet International, Ashford International and the Channel Tunnel is drawn between the coordinates data/channel_tunnel.json holds (marked unverified there), in straight hops, not along High Speed 1's real alignment.
- Eurostar: the Continental end of each route is not on the map; the frame ends at Coquelles.
- LeShuttle (Folkestone to Coquelles) is left off: it carries vehicles, its record is unverified, and it was not in the brief's three operators.
- Track shape: every hop is drawn along OpenStreetMap track, the shortest route between its two stations (2,915 of 2,951 matched; 36 stayed straight), simplified to 328 ft (100 m). Not checked hop by hop.
- Caledonian Sleeper, read 10 November 2026: the Aberdeen strip's Edinburgh call is not in the timetable page (Edinburgh is a pass-through on the map); Fort William's page shows no times in either direction, so that strip rests on the 7 October reading; Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness match.
- 25 station coordinates from Wikipedia, not verified against NaPTAN or the ORR.
- The Thames: OpenStreetMap's banks, simplified to 295 ft (90 m); the estuary's sea and land are redrawn inside a box (0.45 E to 1.40 E, 51.19 N to 51.74 N) over Natural Earth's coast, so a small step may show where the box meets it.