Proposed STATION ON THAMES. Hungerford/Charing Cross Bridge. BALY, 1855 map
'Section of Charing Cross Bridge, showing increased Width when altered into a Carriage Bridge'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: PP Baly Esq. Mr. Price Prichard Baly was a civil engineer and a pupil of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, in whose office he made the calculations for the Clifton and the Hungerford suspension bridges, and he subsequently acted as Resident Engineer for the construction of the latter. He was involved in the construction of railways in Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, Georgia and Russia. He surveyed and designed ports on the Black Sea, at Baku & Madras, and piers at Bournemouth, Folkestone, Ostend and Blankenberg. He advised Sir Charles Barry in the reconstruction of Westminster bridge and other iron structures. 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, prepared for consideration by the British Parliamentary Select Committee on Metropolitan Communication. At the time of the publication of the map, various proposals to provide a railway terminus into the West End of London for lines running to the south were being considered by extending existing rail lines north over Hungerford Bridge. This plan shows a detail from a proposal for a "Station on Thames" spanning Hungerford Bridge. Charing Cross station, designed by Sir John Hawkshaw, was eventually built to the north of the river on the site of the Hungerford Market and opened on 11 January 1864.
Size: 4802px × 3806px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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