The Times Mapping the Railways

by Julian Holland, David Spaven, Julian & Spaven Holland

Railways appear in almost every type of map available throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Detailed Parliamentary plans were drawn up for hundreds of proposed railway schemes (many of which never got past the drawing board). Once built, the Ordnance Survey then plotted the lines onto their national maps of Britain. Cartographers such as John Barthomolew & Son, Cruchley and Bradshaw, were commissioned to draw vast numbers of railway maps...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007435991
• ISBN13: 9780007435999
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.6" x 10.9"