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Title: Rail Rule book, Underground Map, Driving licenses and more Post by: grahame on July 12, 2021, 07:04:35 During research yesterday (nothing but sport on the TV!) I came across the Metadyne site (http://www.metadyne.co.uk/Research.htm) with some fascinating historical pieces
BR Rule books: http://www.metadyne.co.uk/BR_Rules.html http://www.metadyne.co.uk/pdf_files/RULE_MAIN_V4.pdf History of the underground map: http://www.metadyne.co.uk/UndMap.html http://www.metadyne.co.uk/pdf_files/UndMap.pdf An illustrated history of Driving Licences http://www.metadyne.co.uk/DL.html http://www.metadyne.co.uk/pdf_files/Driving%20Licences.pdf Historical figures http://www.metadyne.co.uk/D_ml_stations.html And much more too. Documents are clearly labelled "Copyright - not to be printed" and "Copyright - not to be distributed", but I have added them to our mirror index to that searches will send members to them where appropriate. Title: Re: Rail Rule book, Underground Map, Driving licenses and more Post by: stuving on July 12, 2021, 09:12:32 And much more too. Indeed! If you search for "metadyne" on the forum, it finds that I cited a paper on the history of driving licences. I found that (as I guess Graham did) via a Google search, and at the time I didn't realise how much else was there - just that it looked like good reliable research. If you do reach the site's web pages, you will see from the heading that the author of all this - Mike Horne - died last year, which it is very sad to hear. Of course that raises the question (as for many such personal sites) of how all this stuff can be kept available, whether or not the work is ever continued. The link with the London Reconnections site does look hopeful it that regard. Title: Re: Rail Rule book, Underground Map, Driving licenses and more Post by: froome on July 12, 2021, 09:44:17 What a fascinating site!
Very sad to hear that the author has died. Had anyone here ever met him, or know anything about him? Re underground maps, I'm fairly sure I heard a programme about their history on Radio 4 a couple of years ago. Maybe he was involved in that? Title: Re: Rail Rule book, Underground Map, Driving licenses and more Post by: paul7575 on July 13, 2021, 13:15:06 What a fascinating site! You might find something interesting in this article about Mike Horne, on the London Reconnections website last year:Very sad to hear that the author has died. Had anyone here ever met him, or know anything about him? Re underground maps, I'm fairly sure I heard a programme about their history on Radio 4 a couple of years ago. Maybe he was involved in that? https://www.londonreconnections.com/2020/remembering-mike-horne/ There’s a Wikipedia page for him, which lists some of his books about LU lines. Pail This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |