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🔸澳州10开奖记录: Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram of Buckinghamshire, 1911

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Not a true map, but what the Railway Clearing House (RCH) called a “Railway Junction Diagram”. Note that while railway lines, stations and junctions are faithfully and accurately depicted, not a single other detail is shown. That’s because these diagrams were created to assist the RCH in its primary task – the equitable apportionment of fares and receipts 🔸澳洲开奖 trains from one railway company used the track of another. Obviously, if a train from one […]

🔸澳州10开奖记录: Austrian Edition of Airey’s Railway Map of London, 1876

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Simply beautiful rail line and junction map from the earliest days of what would become the London Underground. Extremely notable for its use of colour-coding to differentiate between the lines of all the different operating companies. In the days of chromolithographic printing, using this many different colours would have been an expensive, highly technical and time-consuming task. The following text is taken from the raremaps.com description of this map: Extremely rare early Austrian edition of […]