London railways : combined One-Inch Ordnance Survey sheets : nd [post-1871]

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London railways : combined One-Inch Ordnance Survey sheets : nd [post-1871]
London railways : combined One-Inch Ordnance Survey sheets : nd [post-1871]

For many years as well as being able to purchase individual Ordnance Survey map sheets it was common practise to ask the map dealer to make up a composite map of combined elements of a map series. Here we a one-inch composite sheet of the London area that has been marked up to show the Capital's growing railway network.

This includes both 'original' data shown on sheets and that would have been updated during later survey work following the original published sheet, usually in the form of zincographic reproduction, as well as some manuscript alterations; some of the latter include the 'reversal' of at least one incorrect line through Clapham. Not easy to date as firstly the original OS data has been cropped from the margins and secondly no date has been provided by the dealer or owner. The railways of course do give a clue so, for example, the "Circle line" is shown as having its northern terminus at Moorgate and its southern at Mansion House; this was the case from 1871 and so the map must post-date this.

It shows the original Metropolitan and the sub-surface extensions to form the line through west London but not yet the extension north-west from Baker Street and that had opened in 1868 but is omitted. Other nascent main lines are shown, the web of lines across south London promoted by competing companies well illustrated through land shown as open countryside and that would soon be covered in suburban housing and indeed, given the slowness of updating OS maps, may already have been.

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