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The
Last Link - The First 30 Years of the Hampstead Tube, by Mike Horne. The
book charts the early years of the new railway, originally described as
the 'Last Link' in the American Charles Yerkes inspired delivery of three
tube lines and the electrification of the District railway in the early
days of the twentieth century. The book is approximates 9½ inches
by 8 inches and of 68 pages with an additional four page colour section.
It is copiously illustrated and includes some diagrams and other illustrations
not previously seen, including a number of early tickets.
Published jointly by Nebulous Books and London Underground Northern Line
in celebration of the Centenary of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead
Railway, part of today's Northern Line.
Price is £9.95
plus £1.25 postage and packing.
ISBN 978-0-9507416-6-6
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Extract
from the Introduction by Anne Letch:
During the last 80 years there has been an extensive quantity
of maps produced by London Transport and its predecessors, available free
to passengers, enabling them to find their way around London and its suburbs.There
has been an enormous interest in these items, they are extremely sought
after by collectors, but there has never been any official details published
as to what items have actually been issued......
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Extract
from the Preface:
In 1995, Dr Michael
Duffy created a series of seminars from the School of Engineering &
Advanced Technology at Sunderland University. The school was also the
Centre for Engineering Change, and is now the School of Computing, Engineering
and Technology. Other sponsors were the Newcomen Society, and the London
Transport Museum (particularly Mark Dennison) who provided the venue on
2 March 1996 for a meeting on the work of Robert Dell.
After a personal introduction by Anthony Bull, CBE, OBE, (Vice-Chairman
of the London Transport Board from 1965 to 1971) formal papers were read
by four authors. The audience then visited Cobourg Street (London Underground's
control room for the Northern and Victoria Lines) to see Dell's equipment
there.
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Extract
from the Introduction by Peter Bancroft:
There has, not surprisingly,
been some pressure from interested collectors and researchers alike, to
obtain some form of comprehensive listing of the supplements. The list
which follows has been formed by looking at each supplement and using
the title as the basis of the entry for that particular supplement. In
some cases, however, a year has been added in brackets, where only a day
and month were given. Also, dates for the introduction of fares revisions
have been added, where these were not included in the title. A location
has sometimes been added where this was thought to be helpfull. The present
listing arbitrarily covers the period from the beginning of 1934 up to
the end of 1991. This is largely because of the ease of referring to bound
volumes covering these years. Supplements were, however, issued before
1934 in various forms.
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Extract
from the Introduction:
Soon after the passing
of the 1968 Transport Act, which had included the provision for LT to
reclaim its relics and records, a firm statement was made by LT to the
effect that they believed that the proper place for their relics and records
was in London. They therefore gave BR notice that they would reclaim their
respective records and relics when the move of BR items was being made
to York. An agreement had already been reached with the Greater London
Council that LT's records, whilst remaining LT property, would be housed
in the Middlesex section of the Council's Record Office, then at 1 Queen
Anne's Gate Buildings. Dartmouth Street, London, SW 1. The relics were
actually reclaimed even before Clapham closed and formed the basis of
the collection displayed at Syon Park, which opened on 23 May 1973. These
items, mostly railway rolling stock/trains/buses moved into the new LT
Museum in Covent Garden in 1981.
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Extract
from the Introduction by Peter Bancroft:
I have often had a
need to look up magazine references to articles, letters to the editor,
news items, photographs, etc. about local railways within about a twenty
mile or so radius from Alton. In 1985, P J Long published The Railmag
Index. This, according to its introduction, was designed to allow 'quick
& convenient tracing of all information' in Trains Illustrated/Modern
Railways/Railways/Railway World. I have used it since on many occasions
but quickly gained the impression that it was full of numbers and plus/minus
signs, but lacked any hard information! However, in fairness it does seek
to cover the whole subject matter throughout the magazines concerned.
It also ignored the much older and longer running Railway Magazine. Although
no particular importance should be attached to the age of magazine items,
there is clearly the possibility that there are contemporary reports of
much earlier happenings, together with earlier photographs, maps, gradient
profiles and maybe personal reminiscences as well. These ought not to
be ignored!
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