While that's obviously fascinating, I'd never before seen a pre-1959 version also showing the M&GN system in East Anglia -- until I caught this tiny, blurry image taken from a website advertising a book for sale:
Tiny and blurry it may be, but you can clearly see the M&GN mainline stretching across the top part of Norfolk. So here's the challenge: does anyone have a link to a decent image of this map, or an e-copy you can send to me?
All help gratefully received.
PS: And I have now received some help, very gratefully -- the 1956 British Railways Passenger network map:
One of the reasons the M&GN did not survive can be clearly seen on this map: the way the "mainline" is taken to start at Yarmouth while Norwich is served only by a branch. This insistence that the biggest population centre should be bypassed while a small fishing town and holiday resort was treated as the main destination has always struck me as wilfully perverse.
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Something like this - http://www.railblue.com/pages/Related%20Rail%20Blue%20Info/1956_british_railways_passenger_.htm ?
You are a genius! (Or, at least, your Googling skills are much better than mine)
Thanks very much -- exactly what I wanted.
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