1877 District Railway Map
District Railway Map c.1877
Lithograph on paper. Two-colour lithograph (with blue overprint for Inner Circle Completion line). Folded paper pocket map, information on verso.
For a couple of years, it seems similar maps were being produced concurrently - titled either “District Railway” or “Metropolitan District Railway”. Whist the map design itself is identical, this example has information on either side of the map and is in pocket map format (not a guide book variant). This two-colour map paper format would be used by the DR right up until 1927.
This map aligns to the 1877 edition, The District Railway now extends to Richmond (Opened in June 1877). But the map doesn’t yet show the extension to Putney Bridge in construction (1878 maps onwards). Aslo, the blue inner circle line incorrectly joins with Aldgate, corrected in the 1878 edition where it meets Bishopsgate.
District Railway Map c.1877
Lithograph on paper. Two-colour lithograph (with blue overprint for Inner Circle Completion line). Folded paper pocket map, information on verso.
For a couple of years, it seems similar maps were being produced concurrently - titled either “District Railway” or “Metropolitan District Railway”. Whist the map design itself is identical, this example has information on either side of the map and is in pocket map format (not a guide book variant). This two-colour map paper format would be used by the DR right up until 1927.
This map aligns to the 1877 edition, The District Railway now extends to Richmond (Opened in June 1877). But the map doesn’t yet show the extension to Putney Bridge in construction (1878 maps onwards). Aslo, the blue inner circle line incorrectly joins with Aldgate, corrected in the 1878 edition where it meets Bishopsgate.
District Railway Map c.1877
Lithograph on paper. Two-colour lithograph (with blue overprint for Inner Circle Completion line). Folded paper pocket map, information on verso.
For a couple of years, it seems similar maps were being produced concurrently - titled either “District Railway” or “Metropolitan District Railway”. Whist the map design itself is identical, this example has information on either side of the map and is in pocket map format (not a guide book variant). This two-colour map paper format would be used by the DR right up until 1927.
This map aligns to the 1877 edition, The District Railway now extends to Richmond (Opened in June 1877). But the map doesn’t yet show the extension to Putney Bridge in construction (1878 maps onwards). Aslo, the blue inner circle line incorrectly joins with Aldgate, corrected in the 1878 edition where it meets Bishopsgate.