Beck Mystery Cache

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heartstones1: I no longer work nearby so am not in the area to maintain this so I think it's best to archive it to free up the area for someone else to use

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Hidden : 3/5/2013
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is a nano plastic container. The larger containers I used to hide here went missing too frequently .

The cache can be found at
N 51 ° 3A.BCD
W 000 ° 0E.FGH
Where,
A =Goldhawk Road, Barbican, Tower Hill, Hammersmith, Latimer Road
B =Lancaster Gate, Oxford Circus, Green Park, Gloucester Road
C = Westminster, Green Park, Leicester Square, Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Circus, Waterloo,Westminster
D =Oakwood, Manor House, Southgate, Turnpike Lane
E = Mansion House, Embankment, Waterloo, London Bridge, Oval
F =Bond Street, Holborn, Piccadilly Circus, Embankment, St James' Park
G =Green Park, Stockwell, Elephant & Castle, Piccadilly Circus, Green Park
H =Westminster, South Kensington, Green Park, Pimlico

Henry Charles Beck(4 June 1902 – 18 September 1974), known as Harry Beck, was an English engineering draftsman best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map

Until Beck's map most maps of the London Underground had been geographically accurate such as this one from 1908.

Beck realised that passengers did not really need maps to be geographically accurate, but just needed to know how to get between locations.
Here is what his map looked like:

Beck drew up the diagram in his spare time while working as an engineering draftsman at the London Underground Signals Office.
London Underground was initially sceptical of Beck's radical proposal — it was an uncommissioned spare-time project, and it was tentatively introduced to the public in a small pamphlet in 1933. It immediately became popular, and the Underground has used topological maps to illustrate the network ever since.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Nccebcevngr cynpr Oruvaq gur Yvarf Evtug unaq fvqr ybj

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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