London's Railway Stations by Oliver Green

Author:Oliver Green [Green, Oliver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784425067
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2021-08-27T00:00:00+00:00

Liverpool Street concourse after major reconstruction in the late 1980s. The relocated GER war memorial is top right.

FENCHURCH STREET

Small – but periodically busy – Fenchurch Street was the first terminus within the square mile of the City of London. A station was opened on the present site by the London & Blackwall Railway (LBR) in 1841, just beyond the original terminus of its short 3.5-mile line. Built largely on a brick-arched viaduct, the LBR connected the Minories, on the edge of the City, with the East and West India Docks. The line was originally cable-hauled, powered by stationary steam engines, a system which soon proved cumbersome and unreliable. In 1849, cable traction was abandoned and the railway introduced conventional locomotive-hauled trains.

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