At present, you will need to use a device with a touchscreen, most usually a tablet, if you want to zoom in on an image, perhaps to view an aspect of detail. On most laptops, however, this isn't possible. We are working with the developer on a solution for this, and hope it will be included in his next version of the Zenphoto software. In the longer term, we hope to introduce a greater number of zoom steps, using "plus" and "minus" buttons.
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Recent additions to the surveys include the GCR London Extension from Annesley to Nottingham, and the GCR line from Chester (Northgate) to Hawarden Bridge (there are two plans showing the approaches to Hawarden Bridge, before and after the Dee Marsh triangle was constructed in the early 1900s). The are also plans of the GCR branches serving the Wrexham coalfield.

The Society was recently gifted a collection of over 2,000 railway surveys of various vintages, mainly at a scale of 2 chains to the inch (1:1584). They were scanned in a number of sections, that we are in the process of stitching together. The first survey plans are now online for Greenore, and for the Carnforth - Wennington line.