The Charing-Cross Railway: covered way leading to the platform, 1864. 'In no part of London has a greater improvement been made than upon the spot where Hungerford Market once stood. Not a vestige of the various structures now riverside between Villiers-street and Craven-street, has been altered, and the site is occupied by an immense railway station - the West-end terminus of the Charing-cross stands about 100 ft. from the Strand has about 200 ft. width of frontage, ground floor will be set apart for booking-offices, refreshment-rooms, &c.,
The Charing-Cross Railway: covered way leading to the platform, 1864. 'In no part of London has a greater improvement been made than upon the spot where Hungerford Market once stood. Not a vestige of the various structures now riverside between Villiers-street and Craven-street, has been altered, and the site is occupied by an immense railway station - the West-end terminus of the Charing-cross stands about 100 ft. from the Strand has about 200 ft. width of frontage, ground floor will be set apart for booking-offices, refreshment-rooms, &c., and all its upper stories will be used for hotel At the bottom of Villiers-street is a communication by means of which steam-boat passengers use the Hungerford person may now go from Charing-cross to Blackfriars, by means of the new railway, in three minutes; to London Bridge in ten minutes: to Spa-road in fourteen minutes; to Deptford in twenty-one minutes; and to Greenwich in twenty-five minutes'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
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