A rare railway map on cloth

BRADSHAW, George.

The Railways in Great Britain also the line of Navigation from the principal Sea Ports to both home and Foreign Stations.
Manchester? c.1850. Printed on cloth in black and red. 580 x 600mm.

Some faint toning.

A scarce map on cloth of England, Wales and Southern Scotland with the railways overprinted in red. It shows a line to Plymouth, opened in 1848; and the line from London to Norwich is named the Eastern Counties Railway, before it became the Great Eastern Railway in 1862. The title cartouche features a train crossing a viaduct.

Bradshaw published a smaller map on paper with the same title in 1843.


Stock ID : 22682