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British Mainline
Rail Network
Equal Area Projection
Figure 3.17 Railway tracks in 1980 digitised from the 1:625 000 ordinance sur-
vey maps. The rail network appears, at fist glance, to be very concentrated. It
certainly avoids high land - but then, so do people. This is the network that was
left after the cuts to services, cuts that took place mainly in the 1960s, but also
before and after then. The rail network was most extensive in 1913.
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