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A pre-Beck map of the London Underground

Underground Railways of London.
London: Commercial Manager's Office, London Underground, 1927. Colour-printed map on card, yellow back. 125 x 145mm.
Stock #:  24926

£500.00

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Description

A London Tube map, published when the Piccadilly Line only ran between Barons Court & Finsbury Park and the Northern Line ended at Highgate (although this station is now Archway). Among the 'lost' stations shown are 'Down Street' & 'Brompton Road' on the Piccadilly Line (both used as government shelters during WWII), 'British Museum' on the Central Line, and 'Praed Street' and 'Bishops Road', both of which have been incorporated into Paddington Station. 'Arsenal' is still called 'Gillespie Road'. The Central Line is coloured orange. The Thames is shown, returned after being omitted for the previous two years. Published six years before Beck this map had already dispensed with surface detail and has the white-centred circles for interchanges. Printed by Waterlow and Sons, the orange cover has lists of Places of Interest and Theatres, with the nearest underground stations.

Condition:

Minor wear at folds, ink ownership inscription on reverse.

References:

See GARLAND 6 & 7 for earlier and later states.

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