Railway Clearing House (RCH) Maps and Junction Diagrams

The Railway Clearing House (RCH) Maps and Junction Diagrams are among the most fascinating source materials for British railway historians. These documents date from the time when the railways of Britain were run not as a single network, but as competing enterprises.

The RCH published maps of the railways, details of the working arrangements between the companies, and, relevant to these pages, diagrams of the junctions, annotated with measurements. Although these are essentially schematic diagrams, they are drawn with an eye on the true geography of the locations they describe, and in consequence, they can explain many puzzling features of modern railway layouts, as well as helping one to imagine how long-lost installations may have appeared.

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