London Area Rail Maps

Webmaster's notes

The London area rail maps are presented as four overlapping maps which each show most of the London terminuses (or should that be termini?) together with more detailed maps of the Willesden and the Victoria/Clapham Junction areas which are particularly complex.

There are direct links between the North West, North East, South West and South East maps which are revealed if your cursor hovers near the appropriate edge of all of the four main maps. This saves you having to repeatedly pass through this explanatory page before reaching them. In a few days you will be able to just 'click' in the Willesden or Clapham Junction area of a suitable map to bring up the detailed maps thereof.

'Click' on your browser's 'Back' button (repeatedly, if necessary) to return to the menuing system.

There is so much railway hardware in the London area that constructing these pages reminded me of an old music hall ditty from a bye-gone era (the 1930s, I think) and which I show, tongue in cheek, to the left. It will help if you are familiar with Cockney rhyming slang.

• Any old iron, any old iron, any, any, any, old iron?
• You look neat - talk about a treat,
  you look dapper from your knapper to your feet.
• Dressed in style, with a brand new tile,
  and your father's old green tie on,
• Oh I wouldn't give you tuppence for your old watch chain,
• Old iron, old iron?


• Begging the pardon of Harry Champion!