1851 England, Wales and Scotland Rail Lines

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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.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 Michael Cobb's railway 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.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-852991
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=5da19ff0a2ce0113b9a912d31258100dfdf07466120819c15339944a245ad4df
Provenance
Creator Satchell, M, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure; Wrigley, E, 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; You, X, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure; Henneberg, J, University of Lleida
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2018
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council; The Spanish Ministry of Science and Education; Anglo-Catalan Society; The Leverhulme Trust
Rights M. Satchell, 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. L.M.W Shaw-Taylor, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. X. You, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. J. Henneberg, University of Lleida. Michael Cobb,; The Data Collection is available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access.
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Language English
Resource Type Geospatial
Discipline History; Humanities
Spatial Coverage England; United Kingdom