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"Pat Ricroft" wrote:

Mike Cawood, HND BIT wrote:

Nice books but as is usual for transport books they are grossly over
priced.

Don't worry - I expect it will be heavily remaindered within six
months. How many people are going to have even a passing interest in a
"great collection of London tube maps"?

I like looking at railway maps as much as the next gricer, but this
really is a stunningly narrow field of research. "London Underground
Maps Before and After Beck" might have had some merit. "Underground
Railway Maps of the World and the Influence of Beck" would have been
worth a look.

I think someone has already done that. Not with that particlar title of
course but certainly that idea.

I've got a copy of the Beck book and it is fascinating. Maps and their
history are 'sexy' at the moment, viz the recent series on BBC. This sounds
like another jump on the bandwagon.

But who on earth is going to examine a collection of virtually identical
London Underground maps, where the only changes over several decades have
been the Victoria Line and the gradual creep of the Jubilee? g, d + r

mode = sad

I've been collecting the freebee maps for about 30 years, try and get one
each time there is a change to the network.

/mode

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