Betts’ Summer 1925 Central Area London Underground Map

Underground Railways of London

What to see and how to travel: Map of the Electric Railways of London

Condition & Materials

Summer 1925 issue of Betts’ 15 panel central area map of the London underground, 37.2 x 45.4 cm, printed in colours, trivial wear at a couple of folds and intersections, slight spotting, information for passengers printed on verso. The continuation of lines in the margins is not drawn to scale, and Dodd questions the legibility of aspects of the map, but describes the central area as ‘elegantly rendered’.

References

Leboff and Demuth, No Need to Ask, p. 68

Dodd, Maps of London’s Transport, p. 102.