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I used to see a hard back book with a Tube Map showing how it was every
year up to 2003, but when I recently tried to buy it it'd vanished and I
had to content myself with a folded map.

The book was in the Underground style, with a list of opened and closed
stations for each year.

Anyone know where I can find it?

Tim

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Tim Gowen

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Tim Gowen writes:
I used to see a hard back book with a Tube Map showing how it was every
year up to 2003, but when I recently tried to buy it it'd vanished and I
had to content myself with a folded map.

The book was in the Underground style, with a list of opened and closed
stations for each year.

Anyone know where I can find it?

I'm sure Clive Feather won't mind me posting this excerpt from an email
message he sent me a few days ago, after visiting Motor Books in Leicester
Squa

| Something else that Motor Books had was a new hardback from Capital
| Transport. I failed to note either title or author, but it's a series of
| historical Diagrams of the Underground. Each double page covers a
| significant period (5 to 10 years) and has a Diagram on the right hand
| side and a load of detail (openings, closings, station renamings,
| historical notes) on the left. All of the diagrams are done to the same
| layout[*], but show only the lines and stations open at the reference
| date for that double page. Modern line colours are used throughout,
| except that the CCE&HR is shown as black touching circles (diameter
| roughly equal to the width of the other lines) and the GN&CR is
| variously purple or black touching circles. An early map has the line
| from Hammersmith to Richmond in the salmon colour typically used for
| "BR".
|
| I only had a brief look, so I may have missed details or misremembered.
|
|[*] That is, any given station or line segment will be at the same
| absolute position on each page that it appears on.

However, a quick look at http://www.capitaltransport.com/ does not
show a book that seems to meet that description (it's *not* "No Need to
Ask!", "Mr Beck's Underground Map", or "The London Underground: a
diagrammatic history"). So maybe Clive was wrong as to the publisher,
or as to the book being new.
--
Mark Brader | "...having compressed some 300 million years into
Toronto | two paragraphs, I have left out some details."
| -- Roger Gary

My text in this article is in the public domain.

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However, a quick look at http://www.capitaltransport.com/ does not
show a book that seems to meet that description ... So maybe Clive
was wrong as to the publisher, or as to the book being new.

Or maybe the web site is out of date. My fault for interpreting the
"last updated" date in American instead of British style, and thinking
it was current. (Last time I looked at it I made the same mistake,
but then it led me to think it *wasn't* current when it was...)
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Tools, not solutions. :-)"
-- Henry Spencer

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In article , Thomas Covenant
writes
However, a quick look at http://www.capitaltransport.com/ does not
show a book that seems to meet that description (it's *not* "No Need to
Ask!", "Mr Beck's Underground Map", or "The London Underground: a
diagrammatic history"). So maybe Clive was wrong as to the publisher,
or as to the book being new.

Try
"The Spread of London's Underground" by Capital Transport.
The ISBN in my copy is 185414 266 6, published 2003.

There would now appear to be a second edition, shown as due May 04.
The Capital Transport website gives the ISBN for this as:
185414 277 1.

I believe that's it.

--
Clive D.W. Feather | Home:
Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 (work) | Web: http://www.davros.org
Fax: +44 870 051 9937 | Work:
Please reply to the Reply-To address, which is:

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"The Spread of London's Underground" is reviewed by Eric Felton in
the July issue of Underground News. It turns out that the reason it
wasn't on the publisher's web site is that they *withdrew* the first
edition after a "significant number of errors" were found in it.
The second edition corrects these, and the publisher is offering
buyers of the first edition a second-edition copy in exchange.

Felton was taken aback a bit at the price of almost 10 pounds for a
book of only 32 pages, "but", he says, "I'm glad I bought it."
--
Mark Brader, Toronto The uucp stings you!--More--
Your purse feels lighter.

My text in this article is in the public domain.

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