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Collins 1852

Railway maps, Collins' Pocket Ordnance Railway Atlas of Great Britain, scale about 36 miles to 1 inch, published by H G Collins, 22 Paternoster Row, London, 1852.
All counties are the same scale.
Map 5 is Cumberland and Westmorland; the railways shown are - Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, open 1836; Maryport and Carlisle Railway, open 1840-45; Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, open 1846; Kendal and Windermere Railway, open 1846-47; Whitehaven Junction Railway, open 1846-47; Furness Railway, open 1846-48, to Rampside; Caledonian Railway, open 1847; Cockermouth and Workington Railway, open 1847; Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, open 1848; Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway, open 1849-50. The same routes are shown on the Lancashire map, no.15.
(map example British Library : Maps 1aa6)
map feature:- up is N & scale line (on separate page) & lat and long grid & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & county & settlements & railways
inscription:- printed title page of atlas
COLLINS' / Pocket / ORDNANCE / RAILWAY / ATLAS / OF / GREAT BRITAIN / H. G. COLLINS, / 22, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.
scale line:- 70 miles = 50.0 mm
scale line:- 100 miles = 71.2 mm
scale:- 1 to 2300000 ?
wxh, book (rebound):- 8.5x11cm
wxh, map:- 50x71mm
sources:- British Library : Maps 1aa6

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