Railway & Transport

The Road from Oxford to Coventry continued to Darby... This map was published as sheet 82 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atl...

The Extended Road from Oakham to Richmond... commencing at Oakham aforesaid & extending to Barnsley in Yorkshire  This map was published as she...

The Continuation of the Road from London to Holy-Head... Plate 3d., commencing at the City of Lichfield & extending to the City of Chester This...

Sketch Map of Northern and Central East Africa / [Cover title:] Road Map of East Africa This map was ‘compiled with the help of the Public Works an...

The Daily Telegraph was one of a number of newspapers to sponsor London underground maps, like our example from 1919 which also includes the tramwa...

Beck’s 1938 passenger map features on its reverse an enlargement of the central London area with interchange stations named inside large diamonds. ...

Underground map of London with some motor bus connections, September 1916 issue. The London General Omnibus Company was by this point owned by the ...

This is the Summer 1928 issue of this portrait format map of the London underground, issued 1928-29.  The style of the lines, stations and intercha...

This 1907 passenger map, including advertising for the ‘Piccadilly Tube... London’s latest Tube’, is the first to be printed with the title ‘Underg...

This tourist plan of Jakarta and Bali was published in Japan Airlines’ Orient Times in September 1975. The map is unsigned, but part of a series in...

This tourist plan of Singapore was published in Japan Airlines’ Orient Times in May 1975.  American commercial artist Raymond Ameijide (1924-2000) ...

This tourist plan of Bangkok was published in Japan Airlines’ Orient Times in August 1975.  American commercial artist Raymond Ameijide (1924-2000)...

The Central London Railway pioneered giving maps like this one to passengers free of charge, something which we now take for granted but which only...

This issue of Beck’s 1934 map saw a slight increase in size of the card folder given away to passengers.  Beck’s diagram is one of the most innovat...

Our map of the London underground is the second edition in a series designed by Fred Stingemore, issued free to passengers from May 1925 onwards an...

This Edwardian map of the London underground represents a significant advance both in the issuing of passenger maps in a convenient format, and in ...

Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. The decorative cartouche on this map of the roa...

Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet shows the roads between the Cumbrian...

Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet covers the road between High Barnet ...

The “District Railway” Miniature Map of London and Environs (6th edition) District Railway routes are overprinted in red on this road and rail map ...

This pictorial route map of the Devon General by an anonymous draughtsman for the principal bus operator in south Devon makes playful references to...

This steamship route map of the western Mediterranean and Northwest Africa shows the routes from Marseille and Bordeaux to Tunisia, Algeria and Mor...

The British Empire Exhibition originally ran between April and November 1924, but it was not a financial success, and the decision was taken to reo...

The British Empire Exhibition was, at the time, the largest exhibition staged anywhere in the world; a high profile, postwar statement of confidenc...

This route map advertises passenger, postal and cargo steamship services between Marseille and West Africa. The SS Canada was built for the Fabre L...

Our journey to Dover begins in London and follows the road through Deptford, Blackheath, Shooter’s Hill, and Dartford, reaching Dover via Rochester...

Our journey takes us along the road between the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge, via Bedford. Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed fo...

Our journey begins in London and follows the road west through Knightsbridge and Kensington (with Hyde Park to one side), Hammersmith and Turnham G...

Cymru am byth! This map features happy holidaymakers, figures from Welsh history stretching from Owain Glydnwr to David Lloyd George, and from a Ro...

This road map includes London, Islington, and Highgate, and extends as far as Towcester. It was published as sheet 21 in the 1698 folio edition of ...

The Railway Clearing House allocated revenue on occasions where one company’s train ran over another’s track, and promoted standardisation (of ever...

This plan of the Manchester Shipping Canal was published as a supplement to ‘The Illustrated London News’, February 3rd 1883. Construction began in...

This route map was published in a report to Congress as ‘Letter from the postmaster general transmitting a report of General Bernard, of surveys of...

New Road Map of England & Wales... shewing all the lines of railway, canals &c., describing the picturesque scenery and forming a complete ...

This pictorial plan of central Oxford was printed for the recently nationalised British Railways (Western Region). The arms of the University and t...

A first edition of the famous diagram from January 1933 Beck’s diagram is one of the most innovative and influential designs of the twentieth centu...

District within ¼ mile radius [of] South Harrow Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, ...

By Green Line from Hyde Park Corner This pair poster was issued in April 1947 for the start of the first summer of the fully re-instated coach netw...

District within ¼ mile radius [of] Turnpike Lane Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War,...

A July 1910 map of the Uptown and Downtown Hudson Tubes, pairs of tunnels connecting Jersey City with Greenwich Village in New York and with the Hu...

Late Theatre Services by Tramway is one of at least three posters designed by Haythorne for LCC Trams, the others being ‘Dull days made bright in t...

Map with lines showing the boundary for free collection and delivery of parcels and passengers’ luggage The main map shows central London, includin...

Voyage en ballon dirigeable a travers l’Europe No rule sheet, but fairly self explanatory: the board is a simplified map of Europe with vignettes o...

Harold Hutchison believed that he could design a superior version of the Beck diagram himself. He was wrong. With a print code dated January 1960, ...

District within ¼ mile radius [of] Monument Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, with...

Map of the Grand Junction Railway and its Adjacent Country. [Copied by permission from the Company’s official map.] Shewing all the the stations on...

Bradshaw’s Railway Companion, containing the times of departure, fares &c., of the railways in England, and also hackney coach fares from the p...

Map of the Great Western Railway and Connections This map illustrates how the Great Western Railway connected resources such as coal fields, china ...