The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866

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The interior of the completed Kensington Station showing the platforms, roof and track with a contractor's locomotive. The station was later renamed High Street Kensington. From a series of 64 photographs taken in the late 1860s by Henry Flather to document the construction of the railway from Paddington to Blackfriars via Kensington, Westminster and the new Victoria Embankment. Construction was by the 'cut-and-cover' method used to build the first underground railways before the development of the tunneling shield by James Henry Greathead . The first tunneled, or 'tube', railway in London was the City & South London Line, which opened in 1890

Artist: Henry Flather

Copyright: © London Museum

Date: 1868 AD - 1868 AD

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The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866
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