WESTMINSTER TERMINUS RAILWAY 'Station on Thames' proposal. JC HADDAN, 1855 map
'Plan, Elevation and Section of proposed Westminster Terminus Railway - Station on Thames. Mr John Coope Haddan'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Mr John Coope Haddan. Mr John Coope Haddan was an inventor and railway engineer. 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. 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 and into Westminster. The map shows a "Station on Thames" as the proposed terminus on a bridge to be constructed between Nine Elms and Pimlico, with the entrance on (presumably) what is now Grosvenor Road or Millbank. However in 1856 another Act of Parliament was passed, authorising the abandonment of the company’s proposed lines which had already received Royal Assent. In 1858 the ‘’Victoria Station & Pimlico Railway’’ project emerged, which resulted in today's Victoria station, crossed the river to the west of the location proposed in this map, and with the station firmly planted on the Middlesex side of the river.
Size: 7555px × 3669px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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