Today's Bike Ride

[Graham Breeze]

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For those of you who are interested I have attached a link to the OS map of 1960 from the excellent National Library of Scotland. For those of you who have no interest in railways, you can see how flat it is!

https://maps.nls.uk/view/91576790

Thank you.

I like old maps from which railways have disappeared. I like being out in the country and seeing bridge abutments or lines of trees across the landscape which make no sense until you realise they show the line of an old track bed, or abandoned embankments. Ilkley is now a terminus but the line used to go on to Skipton (and Carlisle and Scotland) and there was an embankment and several bridges cutting Ilkley in half and although they have been removed their heritage determines how Ilkley has developed over the last 60 years.

Naturally I have Trackatlas which shows every metre of track in the UK and Railway Atlas Then And Now comparing the the January 1923 and 2012 track systems and like everyone else the 1904 Railway Clearing House Atlas and of course the network map of December 1947 prior to nationalisation and modern maps of...