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Londons twelve great rail termini are the epic survivors of the Victorian age... Wolmar brings them to life with the knowledge of an expert and the panache of a connoisseur.Simon Jenkins
A wonderful tour, full of vivid incident and surprising detail. Simon Bradley
London hosts twelve major railway stations, more than any other city in the world. They range from the grand and palatial, such as Kings Cross and Paddington, to the modest and lesser known, such as Fenchurch Street and Cannon Street. These monuments to the railway age are the hub of Londons transport system and their development, decline and recent renewal have determined the history of the capital in many ways.
Built between 1836 and 1899 by competing private railway companies seeking to outdo one another, the construction of these terminuses caused tremendous upheaval and had a widespread impact on their local surroundings. What were once called slums were demolished, green spaces and cemeteries were concreted over, and vast marshalling yards, engine sheds and carriage depots sprung up in their place.
In a compelling and dramatic narrative, Christian Wolmar traces the development of these magnificent cathedrals of steam, provides unique insights into their history, with many entertaining anecdotes, and celebrates the recent transformation of several of these stations into wonderful blends of the old and the new.
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First published in hardback in Great Britain in 2020 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.
Copyright Christian Wolmar, 2020
The moral right of Christian Wolmar to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
Every effort has been made to trace or contact all copyright-holders. The publishers will be pleased to make good any omissions or rectify any mistakes brought to their attention at the earliest opportunity.
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Hardback ISBN: 978-1-78649-920-2
E-book ISBN: 978-1-78649-921-9
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-78649-922-6
Map artwork by Jeff Edwards
Endpaper image: Detail from The Railway Station by William Powell Frith, 1862. (Photo 12/Alamy Stock Photo)
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Dedicated to my wife, Deborah Maby, with whom I was in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic for nearly the whole period of writing this book, and who put up with me dodging the housework. Also to Sir John Betjeman, whose writing I sadly cannot match, but whose enthusiasm I can.
SECTION ONE
Part of the London & Greenwich Railway, which opened in 1836. Line engraving by A.R. Grieve. (SSPL/Getty Images)
Spa Road railway station by Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie, 1836. (The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)
The London terminus of the Brighton and Dover Railroads, 1844. Colour engraving by H. Adlard after an original drawing by J. Marchant. (SSPL/Getty Images)
Camden Town Engine House, London, July 1838. Coloured lithograph drawn by J.C. Bourne. (SSPL/Getty Images)
Primrose Hill tunnel, 10 October 1837. Wash drawing by J.C. Bourne. (SSPL/Getty Images)
Nine Elms station, London, 18381848. (SSPL/Getty Images)
Bishopsgate station, 1862. (Bridgeman Images)
Cannon Street railway bridge leading to Cannon Street station, c.1880. (Sean Sexton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Kings Cross station, c.1860. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Illustration of the dust heaps in Somers Town. (The Print Collector via Getty Images)
Erection of the roof of St Pancras station, 1868. (SSPL/Getty Images)
Construction of St Pancras station cellars, 2 July 1867. (SSPL/Getty Images)
The Midland Grand Hotel and St Pancras station, c.1880. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Midland Railways Milk & Fish Depot, c.1894. (SSPL/Getty Images)
The Doric arch at the entrance to Euston station, 7 September 1904. (SSPL/Getty Images)
The Great Hall at Euston station. (History and Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)
SECTION TWO
Liverpool Street station, c.1885. (Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Paddington station, c.1900. (Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Broad Street station, 1898. (SSPL/Getty Images)
Fenchurch Street station, 1912. (English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Necropolis station, Westminster Bridge Road, c.1900. (The Print Collector/Getty Images)
Victory Arch, Waterloo station, 21 March 1922. (SSPL/Getty Images) 7. Crowds in Waterloo station heading off to Ascot. (William Gordon Davis/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/via Getty Images)
London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) poster showing the dining room of the Great Eastern Hotel at Liverpool Street station. Artwork by Gordon Nicoll. (SSPL/Getty Images)
The Gate of Goodbye, F.J. Mortimer, 1917. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Victoria station, c.1950. (Central Press/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Marylebone station, c.1950. (Allan Cash Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)
Euston station main concourse, 2019. (Willy Barton/Shutterstock.com)
Interior of London Bridge station, 2019. (TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock.com)
View across Regents Canal towards Granary Square, 2019. (Sam Mellish/In Pictures via Getty Images Images)
Interior of Kings Cross station, 2018. (Jeff Whyte/Shutterstock.com)
Statue of Sir John Betjeman at St Pancras station. (cowardlion/Shutterstock.com)
I AM GRATEFUL to my fellow cricketer Martin Matthews who suggested the idea for this book while we were chatting between overs a couple of years ago. Thanks are due to Simon Carne and Bernard Gambrill who both read the manuscript and made useful suggestions, Michael Holden for supplying a jigsaw of Waterloo station to help me through the lockdown, Joe Brown for providing figures on Londons rail mileage, Liam Browne for helping me on the station tour, and Rupert Brennan Brown as ever. Special mention must be made of Chris Randall, who went through the manuscript with a sub editors eye for detail as well as making numerous structural suggestions. Toby Mundy is my supportive agent and James Nightingale my patient editor at Atlantic Books for whom this is my eighth book. The errors, of course, are all mine.
I decided on using terminuses rather than termini. There seems no good reason to use Latin plurals for a technology that the Romans, despite their fantastic ingenuity, did not develop.
S TATIONS WERE AN afterthought when the first railways were built. The Stockton & Darlington, a pioneering but technologically primitive railway, had no stations at all when its first trains ran in 1825. The Liverpool & Manchester, which opened five years later as the first intercity modern railway, did a little better, with huts at either end. Initially, stations on the early railways were crude affairs, little more than a path between tracks to enable passengers to clamber aboard and possibly a ticket office that might be located in the local pub.
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