Railway Track Diagrams

[MidnightFlyer]

Surely I can't be the only person sad enough out there to own Quail Maps? Anyone?

 

[Daniel]

I've got the track atlas and the London & SE quail somewhere.

 

[EM2]

I have the London & Southern Region Quail (includes LU) and Joe Brown's London Railway Atlas.
And *loads* of model railway track plan books!

 

[Aictos]

I've got all 5 Network Rail region based Quail Maps ie Southern, Western, Eastern, Midland and Scotland, the LNE Sectional Appendix which is probably out of date and a book showing all lines across the UK and Ireland just for reference purposes you understand.

 

[theblackwatch]

I thought you might have spotted I had a copy of the new Western Quail yesterday!!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I thought you might have spotted I had a copy of the new Western Quail yesterday!!

I think you mentioned it

 

[Dai.]

Might be a dumb question but what is a Quail?

Is it just a posh map?

All I can think of is -

 

[MidnightFlyer]

A series of 5 books detailing every crossover, platform, SB, GF and Siding in use on Britains mainline network today, and quite a lot of preserved stuff too. Oh, and they look something like:
http://www.trackmaps.co.uk/trackmaps/product.asp?productid=5&shopcategory=3

Funky stuff

 

[Dai.]

A series of 5 books detailing every crossover, platform, SB, GF and Siding in use on Britains mainline network today, and quite a lot of preserved stuff too. Oh, and they look something like:
http://www.trackmaps.co.uk/trackmaps/product.asp?productid=5&shopcategory=3

Funky stuff

That is pretty cool, no I don't have one but I might get one now!

 

[Aictos]

They're very very useful for chartering unknown routes when route bashing,

 

[Old Timer]

We would be knackered on Renewals without them !

And of course they allow Network Rail Project Managers to see where things are in their areas without the need to leave their desks and get their new boots and PPE dirty

 

[4SRKT]

A series of 5 books detailing every crossover, platform, SB, GF and Siding in use on Britains mainline network today, and quite a lot of preserved stuff too. Oh, and they look something like:
http://www.trackmaps.co.uk/trackmaps/product.asp?productid=5&shopcategory=3

Funky stuff

SIX books. Volume 6 is Ireland.

I've been gradually getting them as I've needed them. Got SR and TfL a couple of weeks back because I'm heading South of the Thames next week Only the WR still oustanding.

 

[theblackwatch]

SIX books. Volume 6 is Ireland.

I've been gradually getting them as I've needed them. Got SR and TfL a couple of weeks back because I'm heading South of the Thames next week Only the WR still oustanding.

There's a brand new edition of the WR book out - make sure you don't get the old one!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

SIX books. Volume 6 is Ireland.

I've been gradually getting them as I've needed them. Got SR and TfL a couple of weeks back because I'm heading South of the Thames next week Only the WR still oustanding.

7, if you include the one of SE Aussie

Oh, 4 (Mids) is due out before Christmas (reprint)

 

[DaveNewcastle]

. . . they allow Network Rail Project Managers to see where things are in their areas without the need to leave their desks and get their new boots and PPE dirty

I assume that all professional office-based personnel have two sets of all PPE, boots and hats.
One for use (which may incur slight markings) and one for show (which is always in "Royal Inspection" condition)?

 

[PR1Berske]

Oh lord, if I had the money I would buy all of those in one go =!

 

[33056]

I am a sucker for decent maps and atlasses. Not only have all the Quail ones but a large number of sectional appendices including nearly a whole set from 1960.

My favourites are the Schweers & Wall Eisenbahnatlas series, they have done Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy / Slovenia so far; not to the same level of detail as Quail but they do show all the lines, line numbers, distances and all the closed lines as well.

 

[43106]

Yep, I've got all the UK ones, AND I've had them for a few years. I've also got an atlas book that details ALL lines that carried passenger services in the UK. It's stuffed full of errors, but I have endless fun trying to find lifted lines on Google Maps.

 

[Hydro]

I'm issued all Quails for work and have interactive PDF versions of all of them. Quite interesting little maps.

 

[sprinterguy]

I’ve got a big interest in timetables and scheduling (Just as well seeing as I’m in transport planning!), so having a good selection of maps and track diagrams for general reference and interest is a must for me: I have the Eastern and Scottish Quail Maps, as well as the OPC Rail Atlas of Great Britain, and the “Line by Line” guides of the ECML and WCML (and Highland Lines come to think of it); which give five mile sectional diagrams of the track layouts and gradient profiles of the routes concerned.

I also have a couple of old BR/Railtrack track workers’ diagrams for north east England, showing key mileages, junctions and colour coded speed limits for the various passenger and freight lines in the area.

And seeing as I have a general interest in maps generally, and railway history, I am also the proud owner of one of the massive “Historical Atlas of Great Britain”; which shows every railway line in the country opened or closed before 1994.

So, basically, lots of maps!
The Quail maps and other associated track plan maps are fascinating to peruse, and really useful tools to have for a variety of uses, I’m especially pleased that the revised Quail maps now show basic platform lengths at all stations in 20 metre units, which is very useful when thinking of where capacity increases would be possible. I’m going to get my hands on the Track Atlas which has recently been published, although I’ve heard it contains a number of errors, I think it would be fine for my undemanding uses.

 

[4SRKT]

The new WR one doesn't seem to have hit Amazon yet.

Still, I can't see myself being on the Western Region until next summer at the earliest, so I've got plenty of time.

I got the SR/TfL one in the post a couple of weeks ago (going to London and a few points south next week so I 'need' it). It got carded by Royal Mail and I had to go and get it. We had some friends (normals) round on Sunday afternoon and the wife asked me what I'd had to go and collect from the sorting office. I answered "er, more track diagrams", to uproarious laughter from the guests and a look from the wife that suggested that she wished she hadn't asked.

 

[Matt Taylor]

I have all five although mine are quite dated now, my Midland copy dates from around 1990.