The Margate Station of the East Kent (London, Chatham, and Dover) Railway, 1864. 'View of the new built by Messrs. Peto and Betts from the designs of Mr. John central feature of the building is an elegant covered way over the main entrance. The recessed portion is occupied by the general the right are the first and second class waiting and refreshment rooms and the station master's residence; on the left are the third-class waiting-rooms and station offices. The elevations of the building show a judicious employment of red and yellow brick, wit
The Margate Station of the East Kent (London, Chatham, and Dover) Railway, 1864. 'View of the new built by Messrs. Peto and Betts from the designs of Mr. John central feature of the building is an elegant covered way over the main entrance. The recessed portion is occupied by the general the right are the first and second class waiting and refreshment rooms and the station master's residence; on the left are the third-class waiting-rooms and station offices. The elevations of the building show a judicious employment of red and yellow brick, with ornamental the extreme left is the tank-house, and to the right are the buildings attached to the locomotive and carriage direct London with the towns of Margate, Broadstairs, and been largely patronised by the public in consequence of its providing a shorter route from the metropolis to those places by from seventeen to twenty-seven miles over any previously established means of this new railway three of the most popular seaside resorts are opened up to Londoners under peculiarly favourable circumstances'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
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