| Re: Bradshaw's timetable - first published 19th October 1839 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 16:38, 19th October 2024 |      |
Just for clarity, this is absolutely no reflection whatever on our own Coffee Shop forum member, bradshaw - lest he be blamed.
| Re: Bradshaw's timetable - first published 19th October 1839 Posted by grahame at 16:01, 19th October 2024 | |
I am always fascinated by old timetables including Bradshaw ... click on individual images to enlarge
From my modest collection of mostly reprints
| Re: Bradshaw's timetable - first published 19th October 1839 Posted by ChrisB at 09:00, 19th October 2023 | |
There have been (still are?) printed copies available from Middleton Press,
Sadly, it doesn't appear that they are any longer.
| Bradshaw's timetable - first published 19th October 1839 Posted by grahame at 08:33, 19th October 2023 | |
From WikiPedia
Bradshaw's name was already known as the publisher of Bradshaw's Maps of Inland Navigation, which detailed the canals of Lancashire and Yorkshire, when, on 19 October 1839, soon after the introduction of railways, his Manchester company published the world's first compilation of railway timetables.
A good history there ... and the individual timetables each provide a fascinating snapshot of the services that were offered through from 1839 to the final versions in 1961, by which times the railways were nationalised and there was a single set of timetables to cover all public rail services in Great Britain.
See also http://www.rinbad.free-online.co.uk/Bradshaw.htm with links to much more history and for researchers a listing of where they may find originals and reprints in publicly accessible libraries
Coming to current times, National Rail publishes (but does not sell printed copies) of the National Rail Timetable - they can be downloaded from there - and we mirror a set at http://www.passenger.chat/nrtt_may23 too. There have been (still are?) printed copies available from Middleton Press, and a number of reprints available which by the very number of them seem to be popular. There is also the European Rail Timetable - a successor to Bradshaw's continetal product, printed four times a year which I have personally invaluable when Interrailing - though it's a "broad brush" product which does not attempt to cover every service and station.
