I came across this fascinating London map in my archives, hand-drawn map, circa 1915. Looks too detailed to be a hobbyist map. Does anyone have any ideas what it is? As I am downsizing, and re-focusing my map collection on NYC, I have listed it on eBay. ebay.co.uk/itm/1264590036…

The tick mark symbol: introduced by Nobu Siraisi for the Tauranac Committee '78-79, kept by David Jenkins until 1997. In the map 'coup' of 1998, Marketing Director Alicia Martinez placed the subway map under Michael Hertz. Local stations were now reduced to little black dots.

Here we see more tick-mark station symbols in the official Tokyo Metro map. This is circa 1968.

Not often we see the precise point some feature of the subway map was determined. Here is an excerpt from John Tauranac's 'bath-tub memo' on the last day of the Cityana exhibition on Mar 3, '78, deciding to adopt white-bridge transfers. & Nobu Siraisi's first known sketch of same

John Tauranac introduced London-style white-bridge transfer symbol in the '79 map. David Jenkins preserved this till '97. When Michael Hertz took control of the map in '98, he reverted to thin black lines that Tauranac had used in '76/'78 maps but rejected for the white bridge.

Although Henry Beck did a great thing with his visual language of the Underground, many graphical devices he used predate him. E.g. the white bridge was already seen in 1909. John Tauranac brought in the white rectangle for local stop transfers, along with white circle and bridge

Beck's influence in NYC is usually thought of as just the octilinear layout, but his transfer symbol (the 'white bridge') was imported by John Tauranac in the 1979 map. This is a figure from my upcoming paper in The Cartographic Journal.

My forthcoming paper in The Cartographic Journal (publisher British Cartographic Society ) will look at Beckist influences on the NYC subway map. There is a very clear inheritance of shape from Salomon's explicitly Beckist map of '58 to Vignelli's '72 map. But Stephen's '38 map dffered somewhat.

After a further round of edits, the 'final final' version of my paper has been accepted by The Cartographic Journal, published by the British Cartographic Society . The title is 'Henry Beck’s map style in New York City' and it chronicles the several episodes of Beckism in the NYC subway map.

Delightfully non-Bauhaus signage on the ScotRail train from Huntly to Inverness

Very old sign to the train station in Strathbogie (aka Huntly), Aberdeenshire. Strictly speaking the arrow tailfin is superfluous as the arrowhead tells you which way to walk, but somehow this seems clearer.

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