1877 Metropolitan District Railway Map
Metropolitan District Railway Map c.1877
Lithograph on paper. Two-colour lithograph (with blue overprint for Inner Circle Completion line). Folded paper map, map of London on verso. Attached to guide book dated 1878.
Second revision of the earliest known pocket-sized map published by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR - later known as simply the ‘District Railway’). This two-colour map paper format would be used by the DR right up until 1927.
The proposed Inner Circle Completion Line is shown in Blue (financial difficulties saw this line take 8 years to open). The District Railway now extends to Richmond (Opened in June 1877). Doesn’t yet show the extension to Putney Bridge.
Metropolitan District Railway Map c.1877
Lithograph on paper. Two-colour lithograph (with blue overprint for Inner Circle Completion line). Folded paper map, map of London on verso. Attached to guide book dated 1878.
Second revision of the earliest known pocket-sized map published by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR - later known as simply the ‘District Railway’). This two-colour map paper format would be used by the DR right up until 1927.
The proposed Inner Circle Completion Line is shown in Blue (financial difficulties saw this line take 8 years to open). The District Railway now extends to Richmond (Opened in June 1877). Doesn’t yet show the extension to Putney Bridge.
Metropolitan District Railway Map c.1877
Lithograph on paper. Two-colour lithograph (with blue overprint for Inner Circle Completion line). Folded paper map, map of London on verso. Attached to guide book dated 1878.
Second revision of the earliest known pocket-sized map published by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR - later known as simply the ‘District Railway’). This two-colour map paper format would be used by the DR right up until 1927.
The proposed Inner Circle Completion Line is shown in Blue (financial difficulties saw this line take 8 years to open). The District Railway now extends to Richmond (Opened in June 1877). Doesn’t yet show the extension to Putney Bridge.