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1881 England, Wales and Scotland Rail Lines

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Study title

1861 England, Wales and Scotland Rail Lines

Creator

Marti-Henneberg, J, University of Lleida
Satchell, M, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
You, X, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Shaw-Taylor, L, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Wrigley, E, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Study number / PID

852992 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-852992 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

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Abstract

ArcGIS shapefile of the 9671 miles of railway lines open for public carriage of passengers and/or freight for England, Wales and Scotland in 1861. These data derive from a time dynamic GIS of the railway lines of England and Wales 1807 to 1998 which is structured so that it can generate a GIS of rail lines for any given year between these dates.

These data were created as part of a research program directed by Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Tony Wrigley, which aims ultimately to reconstruct the evolution of the occupational structure of Britain from the late medieval period down to the early twentieth century.

Topics

Transport and travelHistory

Keywords

GISSHAPEFILERAILWAY TRACKSRAILWAY TRANSPORTRAIL TRAFFICRAILWAY TRAVELRAILWAY NETWORKS2018

Methodology

Data collection period

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Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

Geographic Unit

Universe

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Sampling procedure

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Kind of data

Geospatial

Data collection mode

This project included GIS snapshots of the rail lines and stations of England, Wales and Scotland at three dates: 1851, 1861 and 1881. Max Satchell identified the potential of the Cobb atlas for the creation of both the ESRC snapshots and a much more ambitious time dynamic historical rail GIS dataset. He made the initial contact with Cobb, and then with Tony Wrigley, Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Jordi Martí Henneberg of the Departament de Geografia i Sociologia, Universitat de Lleida, sought and obtained permission from Cobb for a GIS digitisation from the revised 2005 reprint of his Atlas.

Funding information

Grant number

RES-000-23-1579

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2018

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service.

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