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Railway map, Map of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, and Maryport and Carlisle Railway, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Francis Giles, engineer, published by Hudson Scott, Carlisle, Cumberland, and by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, 1837.
Folded and tipped in as frontispiece to a guide book, Scott's Railway Companion.
   Giles 1837
map feature:- folded (5x2) & north point & up is N (slightly off) & scale line & sea plain & coast line & rivers & lakes & relief (sectional diagram of route) & county & settlements & roads & railways & canals & geology
inscription:- printed upper left
Map of the / NEWCASTLE & CARLISLE RAILWAY, / Shewing the Junction with the / MARYPORT AND CARLISLE RAILWAY, / and thus Uniting the / GERMAN OCEAN WITH THE IRISH SEA. / Francis Giles, Esq., / ENGINEER.
inscription:- printed with scale line
SCALE OF MILES
scale line:- 20+1/4 miles = 77.1 mm
wxh, sheet:- 37.5x26.5cm
wxh, map:- 354x242mm
scale:- 1 to 420000 ? (1 to 422688 from scale line)