{"id":122,"date":"2016-01-07T10:17:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2016-01-14T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:33:41","slug":"the-railway-atlas-of-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/the-railway-atlas-of-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Railway Atlas of Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/o\/ASIN\/1780272383\/thmaro-21\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-123\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/the-railway-atlas-of-scotland\/railway-atlas-scotland\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/railway-atlas-scotland.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"448,500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"railway-atlas-scotland\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/railway-atlas-scotland-269x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/railway-atlas-scotland.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-123 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/railway-atlas-scotland-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"railway-atlas-scotland\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birlinn.co.uk\/Railway-Atlas-of-Scotland.html\">Also from Birlinn<\/a>,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/o\/ASIN\/1780272383\/thmaro-21\">The Railway Atlas of Scotland: Two Hundred Years of History in Maps<\/a><\/em> by David Spaven, which came out last October.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2005\/02\/british_railways_past_and_present.php\">British Railways, Past and Present<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"buy-amazon\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/o\/ASIN\/1780272383\/thmaro-21\">Buy at Amazon U.K.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also from Birlinn,\u00a0The Railway Atlas of Scotland: Two Hundred Years of History in Maps by David Spaven, which came out last October. Previously: British Railways, Past and Present. Buy at Amazon U.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[30,40,39,37,41],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-history","tag-books","tag-railroads","tag-railways","tag-scotland","tag-trains","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2445,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/07\/new-nls-exhibition-you-are-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":122,"position":0},"title":"New NLS Exhibition: You Are Here","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 July 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"A new map exhibition opens this Friday at the National Library of Scotland.\u00a0You Are Here\u00a0\"challenges our acceptance of maps.\u00a0It poses questions about how they are made and how we understand them. Drawn from our collection of more than two million maps and atlases, each map in the exhibition shows the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5244,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2011\/10\/map-books-for-fall-2011\/","url_meta":{"origin":122,"position":1},"title":"Map Books for Fall 2011","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 October 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are a few map-related books coming out this fall. They include books by a game show legend and a highly regarded artist, and an atlas that has already encountered more than its share of controversy. Maphead by Ken Jennings (Simon & Schuster, September 2011. ISBN 978-1439167175). 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The Club has other maps as well.\u00a0[Maps on the Web]","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Transit&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Transit","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/transit\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"india-rail-network","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/india-rail-network-933x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/india-rail-network-933x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/india-rail-network-933x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/india-rail-network-933x1024.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5113,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/the-first-railroads\/","url_meta":{"origin":122,"position":4},"title":"The First Railroads","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 October 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Derek Hayes's latest historical atlas (there have been many) came out last week from Firefly Books:\u00a0The First Railroads: Atlas of Early Railroads.\u00a0\"In this book, Derek Hayes compiles archival maps and illustrations, many never before published, showing the locations and routes of the world's early railways, as well as the locomotive\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;History&quot;","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/the-first-railroads-233x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1790802,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/05\/atlas-du-reseau-ferre-en-france\/","url_meta":{"origin":122,"position":5},"title":"Atlas du r\u00e9seau ferr\u00e9 en France","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 May 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The French state railway company SNCF has a lot of nice maps of their rail network, some of which I\u2019ve posted here before; of particular interest, though, is the Atlas du r\u00e9seau ferr\u00e9 en France, which gathers them into an 86-page booklet, and includes a lot of diagrams showing, for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Transit&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Transit","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/transit\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Atlas du r\u00e9seau ferr\u00e9 en France (cover)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/atlas-du-reseau-ferre-cover-214x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}