1861 England, Wales and Scotland Rail Lines

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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.

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.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-852992
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=0e91b704d5fcb7c1928c0ea40b337e2656307276bc84326285c51506ea658255
Provenance
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
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2018
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council; The Spanish Ministry of Science and Education; The Anglo-Catalan Society; The Leverhulme Trust
Rights J. Marti-Henneberg, University of Lleida. M. Satchell, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. X. You, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. L.M.W. Shaw-Taylor, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. E.A. Wrigley, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Michael Cobb,; The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service.
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Language English
Resource Type Geospatial
Discipline History; Humanities
Spatial Coverage England; United Kingdom