Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . re-cisely the number of miles over which passengersare booked here. Originally the departure plat-forms for the main line adjoined the waiting-roomson the east side of the great hall, and those forthe midland counties on the west side; but thegradual opening up of new lines of railway andbranches has somewliat altered this are several spare rails under the same roof, Somers Towti.] EUSTON STATION. 349 upon which the carriages are examined, cleaned, i which the roof was raised bodily, without havinga
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . re-cisely the number of miles over which passengersare booked here. Originally the departure plat-forms for the main line adjoined the waiting-roomson the east side of the great hall, and those forthe midland counties on the west side; but thegradual opening up of new lines of railway andbranches has somewliat altered this are several spare rails under the same roof, Somers Towti.] EUSTON STATION. 349 upon which the carriages are examined, cleaned, i which the roof was raised bodily, without havingand arranged for departure; and at the end of the ; to be taken to pieces and is a series of turn-tables, by means of : On the west of the lines leading from the stationwhich the carriages can be easily transferred from are the workshops where the carriage repairs for one set of rails to another. The whole of theoperations connected with the reception and the the London end of the line are effected; they arevery extensive, and, of course, fitted up with the. NEW ST. PANCRAS CHURCH. dispatch of the trains are thus carried on under ashed of immense superficial extent ; some idea ofits size may be gathered from Sir Francis Headsamusing and instructive book called Stokers andPokers. It is said that there are not less than8,980 square yards of plate glass in the skylightsonly. We may mention here that the roof of therange of building on the west side of the platformremains in its original condition ; but that on theeast side has been considerably heightened bymeans of a novel and ingenious contrivance by222 very best appliances. The line between EustonStation and Camden Town is principally carried inan open cutting about twenty feet below the levelof the neighbouring streets. The works wereexecuted in the London clay, and, although neatlycarried out, it was afterwards found necessary, onaccount of the great width of the railway at thispoint, to consolidate the retain
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