Building the United Kingdom

[schweitzerdude]

My question is related to "building the UK"

Consider one country within the United Kingdom, namely England.

Is there any other country on earth of comparable size (area, not population) that is more "railway dense" than England?

I doubt it but I could be wrong.

 

[Vern]

Re Hunstanton... The SRS site has thumbnail plans of a couple of stations and Old Maps UK usually lets you browse a preview down to the level of detail which includes track layout at stations etc.

Research time!!

 

[geophil]

Is there any other country on earth of comparable size (area, not population) that is more "railway dense" than England?

I think Belgium used to hold the record in track miles per capita but I may be wrong.

 

[airtime]

All I have to say is good luck on building the United Kingdom, just wait until you get to Clapham Junction, then all your nightmares will come true.

Also, make sure you have a swear box handy, within a few days, you'll be the richest person on the block...

Joe Airtime

 

[ray_whiley]

Clapham station in North Yorkshire would be easier ...

And it has/had a very attractive half-timbered station building of which I made a 4mm scale model many years ago from drawings in Railway Modeller.

Ray

 

[rjhowie]

I suppose you can muse at the empirical ambition of creating the UK with that 11,000 odd miles but as others have pointed out it is an impossible task for one person. It took me ages to build a city with all it's tramlines and now I am building the rather limited network left in N. Ireland. Both have proved a daunting thing. The city was a long slog that took me one h of a time. I started it in 04 just as 06 was coming out so transferred it to that working on and when finished (more or less) it had been moved to 09! Even off and on it took me 3 years to do Glasgow and had one big job sticking to it -even more so after breaks! Now my second route attempt at this railway is a long haul but could be finished early in 2012. A little bit more sticking to a schedule but at least I know it can be done! One Trainzer I know on here has admitted he is finding it a slog sticking to doing something far smaller like many of us! I wish the builder well but sometimes you can try the impossible and this fits into that category.

 

[clam1952]

I've been nearly 3 years doing a 40 odd mile Narrow Gauge route, dread to think how long the whole UK would take, longer than I'm likely to be around I'd think!