General Map of London: the Street Improvements and Railway Termini as suggested by J Pennethorne Esq. Architect to the Commission of HM Woods and Forests and published by Hansard for the House of Commons, London 1846. On paper size 95 by 55 cm. Scale two furlongs to the inch or four inches to the mile. Hand coloured. The map shows London in considerable detail with the addition of some new railway lines that were intended to link the existing termini and possibly connect with a new central terminus. All the existing main line stations are here, though some are not yet in their eventual locations. This is London as it was in the middle of the first burst of railway mania, with the city already carved up by the creation of the new lines and faced with the prospect of more. Pennethorne was both an architect and an urban planner and responsible for several schemes to redevelop London in the 1840s. Has been folded. Good to VG condition.