#railway-history

#railway-history

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.

Over the past few days, some 140 trains and locomotives of all shapes and sizes, from the oldest to the newest, have converged on Derby to pay homage to the 200th anniversary of the first passenger railway service.

The Rail200 branded locomotive is travelling the UK, bringing a mobile exhibition to the masses to tell a truncated history of 200 years of British railways.

As we gazed down at the molars beneath our feet, rail expert Richie Starrs pointed out that this site represents a pivotal moment in railway history – the Brusselton Incline.

The shimmering, ceramic-clad, entrance of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway matched the ambitious, Baroque revival South Eastern Railway side, with its heroic-scaled figurative sculpture.