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Old November 21st 06, 03:24 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Clive D. W. Feather Clive D. W. Feather is offline
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In article , Mark Brader
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# * A Short History of the Bakerloo Line, by M.A.C.Horne,
# pub.1990 Douglas Rose & Nebulous Books, P56mS, ISBN 1-870354-05-2;
#
# * A Short History of the Central Line, by M.A.C.Horne,
# pub.1987 Douglas Rose & Nebulous Books, P56mS, ISBN 1-870354-01-X;
#
# * A Short History of the Northern Line, by M.A.C.Horne,
# pub.1987 Douglas Rose & Nebulous Books, P48mS, ISBN 1-870354-00-1;
#
# * A Short History of the Victoria Line, by M.A.C.Horne,
# pub.1988 Douglas Rose & Nebulous Books, P56mS, ISBN 1-870354-02-8;

Collect all 12! Actually, I don't know how many of these there are.


Of the 6 main tube lines, Mike did those four (there are newer editions)
and Desmond Croome did books on the Central and Piccadilly (the former
with a co-author).

Of the 5 sub-surface lines, there's Going Green by Piers Connor, one on
the Circle and H&C by Desmond Croome, and one on the Metropolitan by
Mike Horne.

There are no books in this series on the W&C, ELL, DLR, or Tramlink, but
there are other books on all of these (large and expensive in the case
of the W&C).

I assume the
page size is uniform.


A5.

# * Sixty Years of the Bakerloo, by Charles E.Lee,
# pub.1966 London Transport, P24p, no ISBN;
Haven't seen this. Note the page count, anyway.


Note the age as well. There are also books in the same series on the
Central, District, ELL, Metropolitan, and Northern (but, it seems, not
the Piccadilly).

# * Northern Wastes, by Jim Blake and Jonathan James,
# pub.1987 North London Transport Society, P48m, ISBN 0-3267304-0-2;
I haven't seen or heard of this. From the title I'm assuming it's
about the northern extensions to the Northern Line that were planned
and started before WW2 but never completed.


Correct.

# * The West London Joint Railways, by J.B.Atkinson,
# pub.1984 Ian Allan, H128m, ISBN 0-7110-1381-0;
I haven't seen this. It would not be directly about any part of the
Underground, though.


The Middle Circle ran over a bit of it.

# * Stepney's Own Railway, by J.E.Connor,
# pub.1987 Connor & Butler, P128m, ISBN 0-947699-08-2;
I haven't seen this. I think it's about the London & Blackwall,


Yes, which of course has the DLR now running over it.

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