Key:abandoned:railway

A key to map former railway features. It can refer either to an abandoned railway track or to another railway feature; e.g., a station.

Abandoned is within the lifecycle or railway life cycle tags. Proposed, construction, operational "rail", preserved, disused, abandoned, razed.

How to map

Draw a line representing the former railroad track and add railway=abandoned.

With abandoned:railway=see values the type of rails can be determined.

Values

Rails:

• abandoned:railway=rail
• abandoned:railway=narrow_gauge
• abandoned:railway=tram
• abandoned:railway=light_rail
• abandoned:railway=subway
• abandoned:railway=funicular

Other features:

• abandoned:railway=station
• abandoned:railway=switch
• abandoned:railway=level_crossing
• abandoned:railway=halt
• abandoned:railway=platform
• abandoned:railway=tram_stop
• abandoned:railway=crossing
• abandoned:railway=signal_box
• abandoned:railway=buffer_stop
• abandoned:railway=signal
• abandoned:railway=turntable

and other values

Rendering

• Is not rendered on OSM Carto
• Is displayed in dashed lines on OpenRailwayMap
• Is not renderer on OpenRailwayMap-Vector in favour of OpenHistoricalMap data for former railways

See also

• railway=disused
• historic:railway=rail/narrow_gauge
• Demolished Railway
• Railway#Life-cycle
• Lifecycle prefix
• Open Historical Map

Photos

• 
  This rail is too damaged for a train to run over it - tag with railway=disused
• 
  Overgrown track - tag with railway=disused
• 
  Abandoned:railway=turntable - tag with - tag with disused:railway=turntable
• 
  There used to be a station here - abandoned:railway=station
• 
  disused:railway=turntable
• 
  The track has been dismantled, but remains are clearly visible - tag with railway=abandoned
• 

Possible tagging mistakes

More details at taginfo

More details at taginfo

• abandoned=rail

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