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London Railway Atlas 6th. edition, Joe Brown, published by Crecy 2023, ISBN 978 1 80035 263 6

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Available now, mine was posted today. £21.65 from Amazon.

I will post any observations and thoughts on receipt.
 
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Is there a sample extract of what's to be found in the book?
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There wasn't on Amazon.
Many people will be getting this because they've previously bought earlier editions (the last of which was in 2018), and they are very well done with a lot of information on open and closed railway sites. The author is more than willing to take input from people who spot errors or inconsistencies and these get worked into future editions. You can see a very small sample from my last post; obviously I'm not going to be scanning the book into here!

I will summarise the introductory text from the author here in a day or two, the book arrived 7pm today.
 
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Anyone who's bought an earlier edition will know whether or not they want the latest edition, but for those who haven't the main items of interest to me is that this is more than an atlas because of the comprehensive and copious amounts of text included - firstly on the map pages themselves and secondly as notes to the comprehensive index. So if you want to know when things were opened, when they were closed, and what they were used for, there's a good chance this book can inform you. It's an acknowledged "work in progress" and it's always going to be difficult to overlay historic layouts on top of the present ones, but the author splits out complex areas into dated diagrams where necessary to help with this. 92 map pages and almost as many index pages, with a nice bookmark which also explains some of the common map symbols.

The author also writes that the printing should be crisper than for the previous London edition, thanks to a software change which has already been reflected in the most recent Birmingham & West Midlands and Liverpool & Manchester titles.
 
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jfollows said:
Anyone who's bought an earlier edition will know whether or not they want the latest edition, but for those who haven't the main items of interest to me is that this is more than an atlas because of the comprehensive and copious amounts of text included - firstly on the map pages themselves and secondly as notes to the comprehensive index. So if you want to know when things were opened, when they were closed, and what they were used for, there's a good chance this book can inform you. It's an acknowledged "work in progress" and it's always going to be difficult to overlay historic layouts on top of the present ones, but the author splits out complex areas into dated diagrams where necessary to help with this. 92 map pages and almost as many index pages, with a nice bookmark which also explains some of the common map symbols.

The author also writes that the printing should be crisper than for the previous London edition, thanks to a software change which has already been reflected in the most recent Birmingham & West Midlands and Liverpool & Manchester titles.
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Great info, looking forward to looking at mine
 
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I got credited in past editions :)

All because I pointed out a few corrections around the West India Quay area. Though there might have been others. I have all previous five editions.
 
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The October edition of Modern Railways (£5.99) includes an extract from this book showing central London.
The bonus is that the map is no longer stapled into the magazine, as these extracts used to be, almost guaranteeing an injured finger when trying to remove it.
 
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jfollows said:
The October edition of Modern Railways (£5.99) includes an extract from this book showing central London.
The bonus is that the map is no longer stapled into the magazine, as these extracts used to be, almost guaranteeing an injured finger when trying to remove it.
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No doubt because Modern Railways is now perfect bound, an inferior and cheaper method which unfortunately makes it more difficult to have my copies bound satisfactorily. Paper quality has deteriorated as well.
 
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S&CLER said:
No doubt because Modern Railways is now perfect bound, an inferior and cheaper method which unfortunately makes it more difficult to have my copies bound satisfactorily. Paper quality has deteriorated as well.
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Indeed. It’s a shame. The RM feels cheaper too.
 
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I've read my London Railway Atlas 6th Edition Last Night, and I am quite impressed with it, however I need to have a second glance in order to take everything in. I look forward to the proposed Yorkshire Atlas being planned by the same author in the years ahead. I also have the Manchester and Liverpool and West Midlands Atlas's by the same author which are also very good.
 
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