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New book: Underground Maps After Beck by Maxwell Roberts
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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 -- Graeme Wall This address is not read, substitute trains for rail. Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html |
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