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Post by rebeltc130 on Aug 10, 2018 0:09:54 GMT
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Post by norbitonflyer on Aug 10, 2018 11:07:01 GMT
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Post by phil on Aug 10, 2018 12:58:04 GMT
I have got a copy of this and is a very interesting read - particularly how politics, and personalities had a massive role in deciding what got built and what didn't.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 13:36:58 GMT
It is a fantastic book!
I wish there was an eBook version too.
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Post by rebeltc130 on Aug 10, 2018 15:02:35 GMT
Thanks for the recommendation. Are the unfulfilled plans mentioned in the book also presented in the form of graphical illustrations, be it maps, diagrams, etc? |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Aug 10, 2018 16:38:09 GMT
There are lots of maps, although as many of the rival schemes were mutually exclusive, a single comprehensive map showing all of them would probably be more confusing than enlightening!
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Post by phil on Aug 10, 2018 18:30:18 GMT
There are lots of maps, although as many of the rival schemes were mutually exclusive, a single comprehensive map showing all of them would probably be more confusing than enlightening! Page 201 shows the Morgan schemes along with all the others in the style of a modern tube map for the central area. Of course the big point is that had the Morgan tubes been built, things like the Jubilee and Victoria lines would have looked quite different - assuming they were ever constructed! |
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Post by theblackferret on Aug 10, 2018 20:37:31 GMT
There are lots of maps, although as many of the rival schemes were mutually exclusive, a single comprehensive map showing all of them would probably be more confusing than enlightening! Page 201 shows the Morgan schemes along with all the others in the style of a modern tube map for the central area. Of course the big point is that had the Morgan tubes been built, things like the Jubilee and Victoria lines would have looked quite different - assuming they were ever constructed! There are three lines that never were, added onto the modern Tube map-highly interesting seeing them in situ like that. The only problem of presenting them in that manner-all of them provide you with an excuse to put your thinking cap on & wonder if there would be any cause for them today! Probably the only sane way to process them is to gauge the original rationale behind them (assuming there was one in the first place-not guaranteed  ) and ask yourself if the need is a) still majorily unmet and b) has in fact mutated into something altogether bigger. If the Crossrail 2 latest mock-up map is anything to go by on the C & NESR, things have gotten out of hand-whatever happened to the original idea ie going from A to B via C & D-the simplest answers aren't always the worst. |
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Post by rebeltc130 on Aug 10, 2018 23:06:07 GMT
Fair enough, will look to get the book.
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) and ask yourself if the need is a) still majorily unmet and b) has in fact mutated into something altogether bigger.
