1851 England, Wales and Scotland Rail Lines

Satchell, M. and Wrigley, E.A. and Shaw-Taylor, L.M.W and You, X. and Henneberg, J. (2023). 1851 England, Wales and Scotland Rail Lines. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-852991

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.

Data description (abstract)

ArcGIS shapefile of the 6336 miles of railway lines open for public carriage of passengers and/or freight for England, Wales and Scotland in 1851. 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.

Data creators:

Creator Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Satchell M.	The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3340-9825
Wrigley E.A.	The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Shaw-Taylor L.M.W	The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3703-7689
You X.	The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Henneberg J.	University of Lleida	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7651-2465