I've just bought New Popular Edition sheet 166, Frome. It clearly shows the GWR Camerton/Limpley Stoke branch crossing OVER the S&DJR line at Midford. Everyone...
Hi Tom Strange! My copy of New Popular Edition sheet 166 issued in 1946 correctly shows theS&Ds 504ft-long Midford Viaduct passing over the GWR branch. Ralph...
Ralph Rawlinson
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Jun 3, 2003 10:37 pm
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There was a similar instance in Cheshire on the Landranger 117 but here the M53 was shown going under the roundabout at its junction 10 with the A5117 - rather...
Alan Bowring
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Jun 4, 2003 5:55 am
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... announces in its northern margin that the A10(T) will take you in 3km or 2 miles to 'Chestnut' which as we all know is a town in Herts! Error or mischief? ...
... <alan.bowring@v...> wrote: More entertainingly an early edition (the first?) of Landranger 176 announces in its northern margin that the A10(T) will take...
Hi Tom Strange! My copy of New Popular Edition sheet 166 issued in 1946 correctly shows theS&Ds 504ft-long Midford Viaduct passing over the GWR branch. Ralph...
Ralph Rawlinson
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Jun 4, 2003 9:59 pm
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... I've just send Ralph a scan of the offending viaduct. It's 327 Kbs. If you'd like it, email me: tomba@... Cheers, Tom [Non-text portions of this...
I've just sent Tom a 70KB scan of Midford Viaduct from my copy of 166. Both maps were published 1946 (full revision 1930 with later corrections). Mine shows...
Ralph Rawlinson
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Jun 6, 2003 8:43 am
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... While we're at it, I don't suppose anybody could produce a scan from an old 6- inch or 25-inch sheet? I believe that both Monkton Combe station and the ...
Hi Donald There is large scale map of Monkton Combe station in Frome to Bristol by Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith published by Middleton Press. I can send you a...
Ralph Rawlinson
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Jun 6, 2003 11:22 am
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Just found on the Sabre site: http://www.wetroads.co.uk All you could ever need to know about fords in the UK Lez...
May I suggest that it would be helpful in a debate like this for contributors to add the particular printing of the map to which they refer. I find that the...
roger hellyer
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Jun 6, 2003 11:35 am
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... I've seen Tom's scan. Looking at the contours, one is in awe of the S&D locomotives, which must have been truly remarkable to haul trains down and up that...
... Quite right too! I looked for a printing reference but did not see it at the time... ... That's the one I have. Cheers, Tom (thread starter) [Non-text...
The thread about the Midford viaduct (viaducts, I guess, since we have established that, real or fancied, there were two) which figures in "The Titfield...
And a great site it is too! Which of course begs the question..... Why are fords not shown on maps. Surely such information would be useful to motoring users...
I'm currently compiling an account for the next issue of Sheetlines (wot I edit) on last month's excellent Edinburgh 3-day event. A number of visits to map...
... 3km ... to ... The only copy of 176 in my possession is edition A of 1974. This has nothing in the top margin in respect of the A10(T). However, a short ...
There is nice mistake on the old Routemaster 1:250,000, sheet 9 (South East England). At the juction of the A272 and A281 in West Sussex is the village of...
At... http://tinyurl.com/e86o ...you'll find an eBay auction for an "Essex 1 Inch Ordnance Survey Map 1804/5." The description says: "Scarce 1 inch to 1 mile...
Apologies if this has come up before, but does anyone have advice on how best to store quantities of maps (the folded, not the flat kind). I would like to get...
Two answers: For shelf access, I found myself looking at various CD and magazine racks. Habitat have a simple wooden CD frame with 16 6"x4.5" pigeon holes...
... Maps" ... maps have ... such a ... Three 'errors' that I've spotted in recent months: 1:50,000 First Series sheet 192 (Edition A, 1974), has the M5 under ...
I recall hearing a discussion on OS maps some years ago on the radio. The OS representative said yes they did include deliberate errors to protect their...
...and hopefully it's of general interest to the group. "Historically, an administrative subdivision of a county, like a Hundred." W-R-N-A-E Any thoughts?...
The only thing I can think of is a Wappentake, which to my knowledge is the equivalent to a Hundred in the North of England. Paul Smith ... From: Tom Baldwin ...
I have a copy of sheet 83, Landranger First series in my collection (edition A*, 1980) on which the relief is shown by means of contours at 10m interval. Was...
