Excellent site for rail historians/Google earth image overlay

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Tue 30 Dec, 2008 11:24 pm

I've found this excellent overlay application that maps out all the disused railways on top of google earth. There's so much detail on there. Long since gone stations and junctions marked out perfectly. There's many other features, pre beeching, early routes e.t.c.The site is here and well worth taking a look at.(You need the blue 'view in Google earth' icon)http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded ... page/0I've also started a disused West Yorkshire railway tunnel location and history group herehttp://www.flickr.com/groups/westyorkstunnelportals/

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Wed 31 Dec, 2008 10:42 am

Duplicate poost.

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Wed 31 Dec, 2008 10:47 am

The local line which usedd to run through Rothwell is not on there. The East & West Yorkshire Union Railway. I have aPDF of the map but can't upload a PDF by the look sof things.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 31 Dec, 2008 1:51 pm

Reginal Perrin wrote: The local line which usedd to run through Rothwell is not on there. The East & West Yorkshire Union Railway. I have aPDF of the map but can't upload a PDF by the look sof things. I haven't looked at the Leeds area in detail as yet so don't know what's missing. I do know the site is an ongoing project so there will be things still to add. The large amount of stuff that is there is fantastic in detail.

edgey2001 · Post by **edgey2001** » Wed 31 Dec, 2008 4:14 pm

Anyone help, I'm having problems with this when installing with Google Earth, sometimes it crashes (we have encountered a problem with Google earth), So I have to reload Google Earth, I have reinstalled it but the same thing happens, I have tried with IE5 and Firefox but to no avail.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 31 Dec, 2008 5:01 pm

Bloomin eck!! there's always something isn't there? it's done it to me as well edgey. Try loading the file from the page, If it freezes again start Google earth up first then try load the file.I wonder if it's just a big file freezing your p.c as it loads? Try clean your computer registry, old files and generally free up a bit of space on your hard drive maybe?This is the file you need.http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php ... =1058469It takes a while to load up!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 31 Dec, 2008 5:30 pm

This is a snap shot of what you should get Edgey.http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/3154063686/All the routes are in different railway group colours. It's good to see how the lines ran while looking at all the housing and industy that stands on them today.

edgey2001 · Post by **edgey2001** » Wed 31 Dec, 2008 5:47 pm

Still doesn't work Phil, I'll give it another go tomorrow as I'm off out soon, Cheers.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 31 Dec, 2008 5:49 pm

Anyone else having probs? Mines ok.