Paddington Station
Mar 09, 2022
2 minutes
by Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Jack Watkins
‘Brunel was a reluctant delegator. He surveyed the entire length of the route on horseback’
WHEN William Powell Frith’s was exhibited in a London Haymarket gallery in 1862, the public poured in to view the spectacle it presented of modern travel. The painting’s setting was Paddington Station, then barely eight years old. The gas-lit building, constructed of iron and glass, was a modern
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