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Changes

 
A serious setback occurred when the map was almost at the final state when word came down that the size and proportion of the frame it was to go in had been changed. This could have set the project back for an almost complete redesign. However, I hit on a way of folding the map in a concertina fashion, and attaching it to a wooden frame, so that when photographed head on it became the same proportions of the new design. My father, whose hobby was photography, took the photograph for me. The print gave me the critical new angle for all the angled lines. Of course there were still small changes needed because the station name length was the same as before but had now less room, nevertheless it saved me starting again from step one.

When the second incarnation was finalized (as below) I attended a meeting of Commercial and Publicity managers to negotiate the purchase of the map. Strangely the main stumbling block was BR(SR) reluctance for my name to appear on the map. There appeared to be some resistance because I was not a railway person. Finally they agreed and we shook hands on it.

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