Map Notes -- RYC1PUB.txt

	Map Notes


	INTRODUCTION to the IRON ROAD BOOK for the LSWR, 1840s
WOC5927	These notes are made from a copy of the Travelling Chart or Iron Road Book for the London and Southampton Railway, published by the Railway Chronicle, about 1846. The guide book studied is in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:WOC5927.
	map type: HantsMap & Railway Chronicle 1846
	TITLE
	The cover page reads:-
	Railway Chronicle / TRAVELLING CHARTS / BASINGSTOKE, WINCHESTER, / SOUTHAMPTON. / Published at the RAILWAY CHRONICLE OFFICE, 14 Wellington Street North, Strand, London. / Price One Shilling. PRINTED BY JAMES HOLMES, TOOK'S COURT, CHANCERY LANE.
	and is illustrated with vignette views of railway viaducts and church towers.
	By the time the chart was published the name of the railway company had changed to the London and South Western Railway, LSWR, by which name it was familiar until amalgamated into the Southern Railway, 1926, later part of British Railways, Southern Region.
	The Chart
	The size of the folded chart is 22x13.5cm. Unfolded the chart is 22x248cm, single sided; it zigzags into 19 pages which can be flipped up to read continuously as you travel. The last page is the bottom outer page (getting grubby in use): the title page is an extra sheet, an outer page, pasted on the back of the first page of the chart, and is also grubby. The chart is printed in four pieces, 66, 62.5, 65.5 and 62cm long, pasted into the long strip.
	Map Features
orientation up is start	The direction of travel is down the page, ie London is at the top, Southampton at the bottom. The traveller is advised to sit facing towards London, ie facing up the page, while he reads in the natural way down the page ... it makes good sense. (The traveller DOWN from London should sit back to the engine. The traveller UP to London should sit facing the engine, and read UPWARDS. The objects and the Notes will then follow in the order in which they occur. ...) There are no clues to compass direction on the chart. The line leaves London generally westwards to beyond Basingstoke then turns southwards to Winchester and Southampton. The railway was originally conceived with a branch to Bath and Bristol, the line allows for that. A line to Salisbury and the west was later made from Worting Junction, just beyond Basingstoke. The line opened in sections. The first part, Nine Elms to Woking, opened 21 May 1838; it was extended as far as Winchfield, Hampshire, 24 September 1838; then to Basingstoke, and the section Winchester to Southampton, 10 June 1839; and finally connecting Basingstoke to Winchester, 11 May 1840. The Gosport branch, noticed on the chart, opened 29 November 1841 but closed 4 days later because of an unsafe tunnel, it opened properly 7 February 1842.
scale	The 77 miles of railway are drawn in a straight line, bends are ignored. 77 miles = 1931mm giving a scale 1 to 64174; the map 'scale' is about:- 1 to 64000 1 inch to 1 mile
table of symbols	The introduction has a table of symbols. This explains 5 of the conventional symbols used on the chart. Every viaduct, bridge, river, pathway, cutting and tunnel is marked by the proper diagram in this chart. They hardly require a key.
	Symbols
	Examples of the symbols used on the chart are given below:-
road bridge	Road over railway ... passing above the railway in a cutting
road bridge	Road under railway ... passing beneath the railway on an embankment
river bridge	River under railway ... a stream passing beneath the railway
level crossing	... a level road or pathway;
tunnel	a tunnel
station	There is no symbol for a station; stations are just given by a name in bold text on the chart.
junction
ascent
descent
	REFERENCES
	This is not a thorough bibliography for the history of the LSWR!
	Marshall, C F Dendy & Kidner, R W (ed): 1963 (2 volumes) & 1968 (revised edition, combined): History of the Southern Railway: Ian Allan (London):: general history from a modern viewpoint Wyld, James: 1839: London and Southampton Railway Guide: Wyld, James (London):: contemporary description of the line; there is a copy of this in Hampshire CC Museums Service, Library Collection Freeling: 1839: London and Southampton Railway Companion::: contemporary description of the line

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	HantsMap Notes -- RYC1PUB.txt MN: 19.4.2001 last edit: 19.4.2001

INTRODUCTION to the IRON ROAD BOOK for the LSWR, 1840s

TITLE

The Chart

Map Features

Symbols

REFERENCES