#19th-century-architecture

#19th-century-architecture

The station was to be located at Great Scotland Yard, close to the modern-day Embankment tube station, and would have boasted an ornamental frontage about 800ft (245 metres) in length. Multiple entrances would lead to a spacious hall about 300ft long and facing them would be a range of pay offices with the names of each railway above, Parsons wrote in his plans in 1853. There would have been eight arrival platforms and eight for departure.