[ North London Railway, City Branch. ] Two maps from engineer's office: first, signed by Baker and 'Waring Brothers', an original drawing of route from Westmoreland St to Dalston; second, 24-foot lithograph of route from Camden to Dalston Lane.

Both maps rolled up. The first around 9 feet long and the second around 24 feet long. Both made up of panels, laid down on cloth backing. Both aged and worn, with light fraying to extremities. ONE: Original map, drawn in black ink, and coloured in red, cream, purple, pink and blue. Title on reverse: 'NORTH LONDON RAILWAY | CITY BRANCH | DRAWING NO 1', and, on labels also on reverse, 'PLAN | Westmoreland St. to Dalston | 50 ft. Scale', and '20'. Dimensions: 53 x 281 cm. Scale: 500 feet to 10 inches. Signed at bottom right: 'William Baker | March 16. 1863' and 'Waring Brothers | 16 March 1863'. A few annotations in light pencil. Street plan, with individual properties numbered, showing the proposed route of the branch through the parishes of St Leonard Shoreditch (in large letters at head); St John at Hackney. Features: Gas Works, Regent's Canal, Stonebridge Common. TWO: Lithographed map by 'C. F. Cheffins, Lithogr London', printed in black ink, and coloured in red, pink, blue, green and yellow. On labels on reverse: 'PLAN | Camden to Dalston Lane | 66ft. Scale' and '12'. From junction of Dalston Rd and Charles St to the east (at top left of map), to'Birmingham Railway Station' on Hampstead Rd to the west (at right, on superimposed part). Dimensions: 59.5 x 732 cm (2 x 24 feet). A few annotations in light pencil. Street plan showing the proposed route of the railway, with the names of parishes through which it passes given in large letters: St Mary Islington; Saint John Hackney; Saint Pancras. Features: Jews' Mausoleum, Dyers Alms Houses, Bricklayers Alms Houses, Brick Field, Weavers Arms, 'Gardens to Houses in Northampton Park', New River, Highbury Grove, Laycock's Dairy. Part of a second map ('Litho. Waterlow & Sons, London'), 110 cm long, superimposed at an angle at one end, upside-down to the rest, headed 'EAST & WEST INDIA DOCKS, AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY'. The superimposed part is to the same scale as the rest of the map, one chains to one inch. With emendations (to College St and Randolph St) laid down on two small segments of paper. Printed in small letters on one panel, with similar statements on some other panels: 'E. & W. I. D (Pt. 3) | CONTT. NO. 2.'