Author: Heikki Vesanto

Public Transport Connections Between Scotland and the Rest of the UK

As a follow up to Scotland’s connections to outside the UK, here are the connections between Scotland and the rest of the UK. Missing is the bus network.

The train lines are drawn between stops on the route, so a direct train from London to Glasgow would be a straight line between the two terminus stations.

The real interesting thing is that there is a crosscountry train running from Glasgow to Penzance.

Transport_to_UK

Data sources:

Flights – OpenFlights.org

Trains – GTFS Data Exchange

Ferries – OpenStreetmap

Land – NaturalEarth

Scotland’s Connections to the Wider World

On the verge of the Scottish vote for independence here is a look at all of the scheduled passenger connections between Scotland and outside of the UK. As it is, there are only flights. There are a few ferries between Northern Ireland and Scotland, however NI is still within the UK. No conclusions just an interesting visualisation.

Flights from Scotland to outside the UK

Thanks to:

The World Is A Village – PostGIS: using latitude and longitude to create geometry

Anita Graser – Visualizing Global Connections

Data from:

Natural Earth

OpenFlights