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Description: | Paddington mainline station on the Great Western Railway first opened as a temporary station in 1838. The entrance, shown here, was designed in 1854 by architect and engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The station's massive wrought-iron arches support a 213 x 72-metre glazed roof. It was one of the first of its kind to be designed this way and was still in use in 2006.
Paddington was an important multi-modal junction. It boasted a canal to the Midlands and a main road into the City.
The motorcycle and sidecar riding toward the camera seem to be the property of a Book Club. Praed Street, which is the backbone of the Grand Junction Canal, is lined with hotels much as it is today. The cobbled streets have no road-markings. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Cityscape | Temporal: | 13 Nov 1923 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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