The Ingenious Victorians by John Wade

Author:John Wade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
ISBN: 9781473849020
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2016-09-30T04:00:00+00:00

The route of the Metropolitan Railway.

Where the railway followed the route of an existing road, properties and people were largely unaffected, apart from the inconvenience of road closures during the work. Elsewhere, however, where the route was planned to go under buildings, the cut and cover method meant that any in the path of the line had to be demolished. Estimates of the time suggested about 12,000 Londoners were made homeless as a result.

The stations were situated at Paddington, Edgware Road, Baker Street, Portland Road, Euston Road, King’s Cross and Farringdon Street. Stations at each end of the line, at Edgware Road and King’s Cross, were open; the others were underground, but spacious and lit by gas. Construction was not without its problems, including a mainline railway engine that overshot the platform at King’s Cross and landed in the excavations; a boiler explosion in an engine pulling builders’ supplies that killed two people; an excavation collapse that damaged nearby buildings; and a flood caused when a sewer burst. On top of that, there were continual setbacks when the excavation crossed water and gas mains, telegraph wires and even ancient burial pits that dated back to the Plague of London in 1664.

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