January 2013 – Korean Revenue Stamps

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Narrow gauge in Korea: the Inchon – Suwon – Yeoju line

January 20, 2013February 2, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg51622 Comments

While reading an excellent book about the situation in Korea between 1945 and 1950 (“The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning” by Allan Millett”) I noticed on one of the maps that there were at that time in Korea several narrow gauge railway lines. On the Ongjin peninsula, to the west of Haeju, there […]

Danish railways system map of 1968

January 12, 2013February 1, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg883Leave a Comment

Sometimes something just needs to be shown once found. When I recently went through all the available maps at the NVBS cartography library I found this jewel of a map. It shows the full railway system of Denmark in May 1968. The nice thing about such a map is that it shows a lot of […]