A coloured map showing how the earliest commuters travelled to work. Details branch lines, underground lines, tram lines, mainline and suburban stations. London had become the world's greatest commercial centre and people were able to live in the healthier suburbs and travel into the city to work. The Victorians were passionate railway builders and all the outlying towns, long since devoured by the metropolis, were connected to the great termini by remarkable engineering feats the involved tunnels, cuttings, embankments, bridges and viaducts. A booklet describes the development so far and plans that had been made for the future.