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Terry Harper · May 4th 05, 11:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, 04 May 2005 09:33:45 -0000, (Mark Brader) wrote:

Terry Harper writes:
My A-Z dating from the decimalization era (1971-2), shows Southwell
Road, Harrow.

I wonder if we have the same edition. Mine shows the road; its cover
price is 30p or 6'-; there is no date, but the monochrome Underground
diagram on the back cover has a note in tiny print, just above the key,
about the *planned* opening of the Victoria Line extension to Brixton.
(Namely: "Stockwell and Brixton opening second half 1971; Vauxhall
and Pimlico 1972". As it turned out, Vauxhall actually opened along
with Stockwell and Brixton stations in July 1971.) Of course this does
not necessarily indicate the date of the street maps, and for that
matter, the street maps in the volume are not necessarily all for the
same date.

The front cover is the same, but the LT Map doesn't have that note. On
page 77 it shows "Open 1971" where the Victoria line goes under the
river.

Looks like mine is the one after yours.
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Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org