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Cassell 3 & 4 - Railway Guides

Although many railway publications and timetables published by the various operators included maps, these were generally larger regional plans showing the complete network or parts thereof. Cassells published both The Official Guide to the Great Western Railway and The Official Guide to the London & South Western Railway. The former guide contained a map very similar to the county map of Devon found in the latter publication (B&B 165) and the latter guide included plans of railway terminii, including Exeter and Plymouth.


Paperback (card) cover to 1890 GWR Guide. 
With thanks to Gerald Baker Books.[1]

These works were almost definitely published annually (although very few are held by any public libraries) and typically published both as hardback (red covers, 2s) or as paperback pocket editions (1s) in card covers. The paperback GWR edition of 1884, for example, had illustrations of Paddington Station and Saltash bridge, while in 1890 a picture of Torquay was depicted (above). 


Cassell 3 - The Official Guide to the Great Western Railway

Size: c.130 x 200 mm. No Scale. 

ROUTE MAP. – IV. EXETER TO PLYMOUTH. (CeOS). No imprint. Signature: S (or J) GULMAN Lith (Ae).
Simple sketch map of the south of Devon.

1. 1884 The Official Guide to the Great Western Railway
London. Cassell & Co., Ltd. 1884, 1890. KB, GBB.

2. 1897  Title has been extended to read: ROUTE MAP. – IV. EXETER TO TORQUAY, DARTMOUTH, PLYMOUTH, AND DEVONPORT. The main route (Exeter to Plymouth) has been strengthened. 

The Official Guide to the Great Western Railway – New and Revised Edition
London. Cassell & Co., Ltd. 1897. TB.

 

Cassell 4a & 4b The Official Guide to the London & South Western Railway

Cassell 4a

Size: 130 x 200 mm. No Scale.

PLAN OF EXETER (CeOS). Imprints: London and South Western Railway Official Guide (AeOS) and Cassell & Company, Limited, London (EeOS). Light sepia colour.


Cassell 4b

Size: 125 x 200 mm. No Scale.

PLAN OF PLYMOUTH (CeOS). Imprints: London and South Western Railway Official Guide (AeOS) and Cassell & Company, Limited, London (EeOS). Light sepia colour.

1. 1888 The Official Guide to the London & South Western Railway 
London. Cassell & Co., Ltd. 1888, 1889, 1891. RGS; RGS; KB.

 

[1] GWR Guide cover provided by Gerald Baker of Gerald Baker Books, Bristol (http://www.bakersbooks.co.uk/page1.html). Town plan and sketch map illustrations kindly provided by the late Tony Burgess.

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