Capital Transport
BoingBoing recently had a pointer to Ewan’s quest to hit every Zone 1 stop on the London Underground.
This reminded me of the best publisher of books on the Tube and other rail and metro systems, Capital Transport. They have several books done in cooperation with London’s Transport Museum and most of their catalogue is available at the LT Museum Store.
My favorite of their books is Metro Maps of the World, which has maps of all the world’s major urban transit systems, with notes on their history and a frontispiece showing the systems laid out as if they were stations on the London Underground.
There was also a poster of this map available from the LT Museum Shop itself, though it doesn’t seem to be on their web store; I don’t know if it’s still available; I can’t find the book there either, at the moment.
UPDATE: Guardian review of the book, found via a link from Going Underground’s blog.
