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GAZETTEER
Technical
Notes
To
access the online gazetteer, please click on the link below.
This is a secure area and there will be a
slight delay while each page is loaded on screen. This should take
about 5 seconds, or perhaps a little longer depending on the speed
of your PC. Please note that a 'cookie' will be
created on your
computer to store the password you enter, but
this will be deleted when you end your session. Your browser must
support Javascript. Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
give the best results; other browsers
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Click here for
the gazetteer login page.
This
section of the website is for members only and
contains an online and fully up-to-date version of Vinter's
Gazetteer,
which lists railway paths of two miles' length or more throughout
the British Isles. You will
need a username and password to access this area; these are circulated
to club members via the quarterly magazine, Railway Ramblings.
To assist members, the login page displays the magazine and page
number where these details were last published. (If you would like
to join the club, click here for
membership details.)
The gazetteer is now
finished except for final checking with local authorities. This is
the current situation:
- Introduction: Complete.
- England:
Complete and updated to 2010.
- Ireland: Complete
and updated to 2010.
- Scotland: Complete
and updated to 2010.
- Wales: Complete
and updated to 2010.
- Illustrations: Complete.
The stages of the project
were as follows:
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Get the
basic information in place as at April 2000, when Vinter's
Gazetteer was
lasted published in printed form (complete).
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Update it with
details of new and
extended routes published on this website (complete).
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Ensure that all
entries include six figure grid references (complete) although,
in a few cases, it was not possible to do this.
An
example is the Mineral Tramways Project
in
Cornwall,
whose published maps do not distinguish clearly between what
is based on old tramways, and what
is
new
path
construction.
The only way to obtain this
information
is to make
a personal
visit.
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Check all entries
with the relevant local authorities (in progress). This will
be the most time-consuming activity and will be tackled in a piecemeal
fashion as time permits. While this is the most effective
way of ensuring that
nothing has been missed, some local authorities reply while others
do not. For this reason, this final stage of the project has a
low priority.
The Introduction to
the gazetteer provides a more detailed account of the project.
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