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There is a reproduction of a lovely map in the book London’s Great Railway Stations. Some excerpts of this map are shewn in this Mapping London article. Here is a quote from that page:
“the book itself includes a rather nice, historic map which neatly includes all the terminii featured in the book. The map, simply called “Central London – 1898”, is one of the first to include all the aforementioned grand stations on it, as Marylebone was opened in 1899, and so would have been structurally present by the time this map was drawn.
“The map purports to show not only the stations themselves and their extents but also includes a simplified track layout right in the station itself. It includes a few no-longer-with-us curiosities that were present at the time – the track that ran through Waterloo station itself and on to London Bridge, and a loop around King’s Cross from Farringdon that then heads north – these days, the loop is wider and goes via St Pancras. But, by and large, the railway stations and network shown are what is with us today. Railways stick around. The map might be 123 years old but central London is strikingly recognisable in it.”