Maps anyone?

[Garrett]

Hey there. I'm a bit of a map freak, hence this post. I often wondered why is it so difficult to find a decent railway map of Ireland? I looked in the resource section of the P11 website but found nothing, although I didn't trawl through all the documents.

What I'm talking about is a collection of maps showing the Ireland railway system as it was, for example, 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 years ago, as well as present and future plans. Details such as whether the lines are single, double, triple or quadruple-tracked would be nice, as would an indication as to maximum speed limits. The presence of closed/forgotten lines would also be useful.

For someone like me who peaks at the P11 website/forum only occasionally it's always difficult to get an overall picture of the rail situation in Ireland.

Am I making sense? Has this already been discussed?

The best rail map resource I know of so far is Yahoo Maps which uses great data from Navteq:
http://maps.yahoo.com/