Railway & Transport

Map of London shewing Goods, Coal and Passenger Stations, Depots and Receiving Offices of the London & North Eastern Railway, also the Ordinary...

Cruchley’s Improved Geographical Companion throughout England & Wales including part of Scotland In this map of England and Wales, we have an i...

Bradshaw’s map of the railways of England & Wales with part of Scotland, reduced from the highly accurate Ordnance Survey, presented to the sub...

Bradshaw’s Railway Manual, Shareholder’s Guide and Official Directory, 1914; containing the History and Financial Position of every Railway Company...

Un-titled, undated and without a printer, this exceptionally scarce early poster was created for display in stations, but establishing which ones p...

Bradshaw’s Railway Manual, Shareholder’s Guide and Official Directory for 1868. Containing the History and Financial Position of Every Company, Bri...

A Travelling County Atlas: With all the Coach and Rail Roads accurately laid down and coloured and carefully corrected to the present time. London:...

Our example of the map has been annotated in ink to show the early expansion of the railway system, with railways completed and under construction....

If thou art worn and hard beset with sorrows that thou wouldst forget… Go to the woods and hills; no tears dim the sweet look that nature wears. He...

This pictorial map of London employs an unusual form of Turkish fold which makes use of inclined folding lines. The map is a simplified pocket vers...

MacDonald Gill, brother of Eric, was a successful commercial artist in his own right, and a noted calligrapher who designed the font used on all he...

This iteration of the UERL common design marks George Philip & Son’s first official map for the Underground Group; the firm had designed the fi...

The earliest versions of this map advertised the Franco-British Exhibition which closed at the end of October 1908, marked here as ‘Exhibition’. In...

Our map shows bus, tram and train services operated by the Underground Group and is very similar to the pocket map issued in guidebooks c. 1924.  T...

Condition & Materials  Lithographed in red and black on two sheets, each 38.5 x 80 cm; this map of Long Island is printed on thin india paper; ...

Mogg’s New Map of the Roads. A New Travelling Map of England, Wales and Scotland […] Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 77 x 63.5 cm, a ro...

The first edition of this map was printed in 1932 but the introduction of Beck's diagram in 1933 did not obviate the need for geographically accura...

Loosely inserted into this railway guide is a 1952 letter from Bradshaw’s, replying to an enquiry from Gordon C. Dickinson, a former owner of our c...

This was the first official London Underground passenger map to be printed since spring 1943, at least partly due to paper shortages. When printed ...

Underground Railways of London What to see and how to travel: Map of the Electric Railways of London Condition & Materials Summer 1925 issue of...

The Central London Railway produced a considerable quantity of advertising material in the Edwardian period. Other postcards included views of Lots...

Metropolitan Goods Conference Map of Collection & Delivery Boundary This map is a variant of the London plan typically issued with Kelly’s Dire...

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

Garbutt believed he had ‘rescued’ the London Underground map from the clutches of Harold Hutchison and his ‘ham-fisted parody’ of Beck’s designs. H...

This is an LNER colliery map covering the midlands and north of England and Wales ('Collieries in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lancashir...

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

The guide seems to have been aimed at an American audience, with several pages devoted to converting prices in pounds, shillings and pence into dol...

This Central London Railway map is similar in style to the UERL common design which had been in circulation since 1908, although with a chocolate r...

Benjamin Getzel Lewis' map of the London underground shows the Victoria Line under construction in the originally proposed colour Lewis (1900-1966)...

Published in March 1935, this is a commercially available map showing the operating area of the recently formed London Passenger Transport Board, a...

Beck’s diagram is possibly one of the most innovative and influential designs of the twentieth century. First published in 1933, Beck remained dire...

District within ¼ mile radius [of] Paddington Praed Street Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second ...

Garbutt believed he had ‘rescued’ the London Underground map from the clutches of Harold Hutchison and his ‘ham-fisted parody’ of Beck’s designs. H...

The introduction of Beck's diagram did not obviate the need for geographically accurate maps, which pinpointed the location of Underground stations...

Cheffins’s Map of the English & Scotch Railways Cheffins’s Map of the Railways in England & Scotland, accurately delineating all the lines ...

This map attempts full integration of bus and coach routes, tramways, the Underground and main-line railways, and is possibly the first issue showi...

In 1933 the Met became part of the LPTB. Here though, the Tube and other railways fade into the background. The emphasis is on work/life balance, c...