"Anoracart" wrote in message
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Just wondering:
If someone were to produce a historical London bus map in the style of
Mike
Harris' excellent series of maps (www.busmap.co.uk) for 1829 when George
Shillibeer's first omnibus route started, what other public transport
would
need to appear on the map? And how complete could that information ever
hope to
be?
I was thinking there'd be a couple of railways, but it seems probably not.
I
presume there would have been some ferries across or along the Thames, and
stagecoach routes. Were there ever any passenger services along the
canals? Or
any local road transport of any kind?
TIA

The only scheduled service would have been on the canals and rivers.
Shillibeer's was the first omnibus service.

There were no passenger railways in the south of England in 1829. The first
passenger railway in the London area (IIRC) was the London & Greenwich the
first section of which opened in about 1836.

From: "Cast_Iron"
Date: 04/11/2003 22:25 GMT Standard Time

From: "Cast_Iron"
Date: 04/11/2003 22:25 GMT Standard Time

There were no passenger railways in the south of England in 1829.

Although the Canterbury & Whitstable was under construction at the time (it
opened the following May). Since the question referred to what might appear on
a historical transport map produced today, I'd suggest that the "Crab & Winkle"
would at least be shown as a dotted line annotated "Under construction".