Substantial update to UK train mapping

Show HN: A map of every UK railway, including stations that no longer exist

Substantial update to UK train mapping is a business in show hn launch.

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Author here (Nathan). The goal for this site was to map the entire UK rail network: not just the parts a journey planner surfaces, but heritage lines, freight-only curves, named tunnels and viaducts, and the thousands of stations that have closed and were never mapped.The project is built entirely on open data. Lines and current stations come from OpenStreetMap via Overpass, closed stations from Wikidata (approximately 6,100 that fall outside a 250 m radius of a live OSM station), and postcode lookups from postcodes.io. The main challenge is that the sources rarely agree with one another, or even with themselves, so much of the work involved small reconciliation rules. For example, the herit

Within the show hn launch space, the company focuses on its core offering rather than a broad product line.

The company is listed at the Show HN launch stage of development.

Website: trainmap.co.uk/map.html