Rail Network QGIS shapefile data

[Angharad Seaton]

Does anyone have a shapefile copy of the UK rail line data. I need it for a project that i'm doing and i can only find WMS data, which does not allow or any editing. If you do that would be amazing.

[petermount]

I've got a copy of the DoT Inspire rail network on map.lu

https://map.lu/geoserver/ then Layer preview, on page 1 there's the department_of_transport_railnetworkLine layer. In the dropdown at the bottom are the WFS options with Shapefile in there.

If you want to use WFS directly:

• Capabilities Doc: https://map.lu/geoserver/ows?service=wfs&version=2.0.0&request=GetCapabilities
  
• Rail Network shapefile (zip): https://map.lu/geoserver/department_of_transport/wfs?version=2.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&TYPENAME=department_of_transport:department_of_transport_railnetworkLine&SRSNAME=EPSG:27700&outputFormat=shape-zip
  

Not everything is in that layer, but it seems to have most NR lines (i.e. not HS1) & there's a few errors when you zoom in. The dataset dates from about 6 weeks ago when I pulled it from the Inspire geoserver.

Peter

[petermount]

Whilst I was stuck on a delayed train this morning I had chance to play to see if I could extract the rail layout from the Open Street Map data and this is a far better dataset than the other one.

The new layer osm:osm_railway contains every track (not just a single line down the middle), platforms, disused & underground lines - effectively anything which has a non-null entry in the railway column of the planet_osm_roads table.

It's a 20Mb zip file containing the shape file but you can get it from here: https://map.lu/geoserver/osm/wfs?version=2.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&TYPENAME=osm:osm_railway&SRSNAME=EPSG:27700&outputFormat=shape-zip

Peter

[Angharad Seaton]

Thank-you so much. This was really helpful

[Steve Warner]

is it still available to download, I get an error following that link 

Thanks