6062 x 3731 px | 51,3 x 31,6 cm | 20,2 x 12,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
1855
Ort:
London
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'Plan, showing Connection of all the Metropolitan Lines with the Westminster Terminus Railway, and by means of it with the proposed Thames Embankment Railway'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Henry Harrington Bird Esq. Provenance: "Report from the Select Committee on Metropolitan Communications; together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and appendix", order by The House of Commons, to be printed, 23 July 1855, Henry Hansard. Type: Antique map with original colour, prepared for consideration by the British Parliamentary Select Committee on Metropolitan Communication. The map indicates Henry's birds proposed Thames Embankment railway, linking from the then-planned Westminster Terminus Railway and running along the north bank of the river underneath his proposed Thames Embankment. In 1855, the railways serving destinations to the south of London were inconvenient for Central London as they terminated south of the river Thames, whereas the main centres of population, business and government were north of the river in the City of London, the West End and Westminster. The ‘’Westminster Terminus Railway’’ had been formed by an Act of Parliament in 1854, promoting a railway crossing the Thames with a terminus station in Westminster. The map shows a proposed terminus south of St James's Park. This station was eventually built further to the west than the location indicated, as Victoria Station. The Thames Embankment was constructed from 1862 to the design of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, which includes a railway (the District Line) running under a public road, as suggested by Henry Bird.
