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RailMapOnline.com contains interactive maps showing past and present UK, Irish and US railways. Now with historic canals, trams, trolleybus and military airfields too.

Map of historic railroads in southwest Kansas, including Hutchinson, McPherson, Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal.
Map of historic railroads in northern Kansas, including the Kansas Pacific (in dark blue) and Missouri Pacific (in light blue).
Map showing historic railroads in northern Kansas, plus Nebraska, Colorado and parts of Missouri.
Navigable rivers and canals around Peterborough and Kings Lynn.
Map of historic railroads in the western USA.
Map of historic UK and Irish railways.
Map of historic canals and navigable waterways, showing central England from Birmingham to The Wash. The map is drawn by Chris Lowe and hosted on RailMapOnline.
Map of trolleybus networks in the north of England.
Map of historic military airfields in the UK and Ireland, including associated infrastructure such as radars, storage and HQs.
Map of north east railways in 1825. The website allows the user to scroll through years, seeing how the railway developed and later closed, including stations.
A map of canals, navigable rivers and docks of London, with lots of markers labelling wharfs, bridges, industries and more.
Map showing historic railways around Rugby.
Map of South Devon's historic railways and industrial tramways, including Plymouth and Exeter.
Map showing historical railways and industrial tramways around Blackburn and Burnley
Map of historic railways in Glasgow city centre. The Glasgow GPO railway is shown, but what was the actual route, and did it even exist?
Map of historic railways around Croydon and Sutton.
Aerial photo of the The Gloucestershire Aircraft Company Works, Brockworth, 1925. From www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/EPW014490
Aerial image of Wolverhampton with historic and modern railways overlaid. Remember to switch-on the additional layers for more detail.
Map of historic railways around Gravesend, Kent, including industrial tramways and street trams.
Map of historic railways in Falmouth, Cornwall with detail showing the docks
Map showing historic railways and tramways around Blaenau Ffestiniog, with lots of detail for the various slate quarries. Also shown are the LNWR and GWR lines, plus the Ffestiniog Railway.
Map of historic railways around Skinningrove and Loftus, including the steel works and Skinningrove Zig-Zag.
Map showing historic railways and stations in Norwich, with modern railways overlaid in red.
Map of railways and stations covering a large part of North Yorkshire, and shown for the year 1900.
Map showing railways around Stockton in 1841, with stations labelled. A legend is shown to the left of the map. The buttons above the map control the displayed year, and buttons below the map select the legend, closed tracks, open and closed stations, and station labels.
Timeline map of the North East's railways, showing a popup for Middleton & Dinsdale station with the station's timeline (changes in name and date of closure).
Map of north east railways, showing the railways in 1825. Buttons at the top of the map let you step through the years, from the first tracks in 1621 to the present day.
Map showing the High Speed 2 route from London to Birmingham
Map showing historic tram line around Huddersfield.
Map of historic railroads around Auburn, California. The Central Pacific is shown in orange, climbing up towards Donner Pass. The Mountain Quarry RR is in light blue, descending to the American River.
Map of modern railways north of London, including the newly re-opened Bicester to Bletchley line.
Map of historic railways in Hull
Map showing historic railroads across the western USA. Coverage includes Hawaii, Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Texas, plus a few lines in Mexico and Canada.
Map of historic railroads around Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa, including the eastern end of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Images of the maps available on RailMapOnline; UK & Irish railways, UK & Irish canals, UK trolleybus routes, UK military airfields, and western US railroads.
Map of historic railroads around Hastings, Nebraska, overlaid onto a satellite image background
Map of historic railroads in central Nebraska showing the UP main line and various branches north of the River Platte.
Map of historic railroads in northeast Nebraska and the Iowa border.
Map of historic railroads in South Dakota, overlaid onto a modern satellite image.
Map of historic railroads across North and South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.
Map of historic railroads in the Black Hills, South Dakota.
Map of historic railroads in northern South Dakota, as far south as Pierre, Huron and Brookings. The map is dominated by the Milwaukee Road (shown in tan colour) and Chicago & North Western (shown in pinks). Also shown is a large part of North Dakota and the Northern Pacific (in dark red).
Map of historic railroads in North Dakota, displayed on a plain background. Railroads are coloured for the original operating companies, with similar colours for the major groupings; blues for Great Northern, reds for North Pacific, yellows for Soo Line, and tan for the Milwaukee Road.
Map showing historic railways in North Dakota, from the Montana border to the Missouri River.
A Great Northern Railway train pauses for the photographer four miles west of Minot in 1914. Public Domain, from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_%28U.S.%29#/media/File:Great_Northern_train,_North_Dakota.jpg
Historic railways around Trafford Park and the Manchester Ship Canal
Map of historic railways in Scarborough, overlaid onto modern satellite image.
UK map showing location of historic military airfields, radar sites and HQs.
Map of the old railway branch to Lakeside (Windermere), including the Low Wood and Black Beck Powder Works.
Map showing historic railways and trams in Blackpool, centred on Blackpool North.
Map showing historic railways and stations around Swansea docks, overlaid onto a modern satellite image background. The Swansea Harbour Trust Rlys are now shown as a separate company in pink, and can be selected with the 'Industry' layer.
Map showing historic railways and industrial tramways around Wrexham and Brymbo
Map of historic railways around Mold and Buckely, North Wales. Lines are coloured by their pre-grouping companies, with historic stations shown.
Map showing historic railways around Pontypridd
Map of historic railways around Dundalk, overlaid onto a satellite image background.
Map of historic railways at Strabane, Northern Ireland, overlaid onto modern satellite imagery. Shown are the Great Northern Rly (blue) and the County Donegal Rlys Joint Committee (purple).
Map of historic railways around Newry shown on a modern satellite image background.
Frozen icicle at the Almond Aqueduct overflow channel of the Union canal, near Ratho, Edinburgh. From Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_icicle.jpg