TRAINS RAILWAYS ALDERSGATE ST STATION 1866 RARE MOUNTED PRINT 60 YRS OLD PERFECT for Sale

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TRAINS RAILWAYS ALDERSGATE ST STATION 1866 RARE MOUNTED PRINT 60 YRS OLD PERFECT For Sale

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TRAINS RAILWAYS ALDERSGATE ST STATION 1866 RARE MOUNTED PRINT 60 YRS OLD PERFECT:
$15.40

LISTEDHERE AMAGNIFICENT NOSTALGIC LARGEMOUNTEDPRINT FROMTHE ARCHIVES

SO RARE IMAGE PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE NOW AVAILABLE

ALDERSGATE STREET STATION ON THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY EXTENSION FROM KINGS CROSS TO MOORGATE 1866

BY ARTIST DAVID KNIGHTTHE PRINT IS 60 YEARS OLD PERFECT
IMAGESIZE: 9\" x 8\" LARGE IMAGE

CONDITION:PERFECT

A MOUNTED PRINT IS WHENthe original artwork, photograph, print or picture has been given a professional rigid backing. This backing protects the image from warping and damaged corners. You can frame, or display the mounted image and store it with confidence in the knowledge that the print will stay as new as the date it was issued.

Prints will be mounted to include the original print border if applicable if so this will be stated in the listing.

This fine image was issued and released sixty years ago when the topography of railways was being compiled.

PERFECTLY STORED IN OUR ARCHIVES AND SINCE MOUNTED BUT NOT FRAMED

You may occasionally see a similar item listed, this happens ifwe have more than one of the prints in the archives

ABOUT THE PICTUREThroughout the first three decades of the railway age, as company after company established a London terminal, the capital itself had grown larger and more crowded : in 1850, indeed, Londoners were complaining that it took longer to travel from the City to the West End than from Brighton to London. There was no more room for conventional lines in inner London, but already more than one prospector had suggested building railways underground. The most profitable and practical course for such a line was clear: it would follow the \'new road\' from Paddington to the City, passing several main line stations. But it took years of law suits and raising of capital before the Metropolitan Railway Company could begin digging in 1860. Since the chief backer of the \'Met\' was the Great Western Railway, the first tunnels had to be wide enough for broad-gauge carriages. But this was the least of the problems faced by the engineers who fought buried rivers and subsidences as they \'cut and covered\' their way from Paddington to Farringdon Street — and later through Aldersgate to Moorgate, which was reached in 1865. Before long, however, the system linked up with other main line railways wanting a City connection (in the background of the picture can be seen a Great Northern train en route from King\'s Cross to Moorgate) and extended east to Aldgate and west to Kensington. Independent companies, too, built lines which fed in from Hammersmith and St John\'s Wood. And at the same time the main line companies of the south were crossing the Thames and setting up new termini on the north bank. In the later 1860s a \'district\' line began to creep round from Kensington, past these bridgeheads and on towards the City. But its progress was costly, involving the rebuilding of whole streets. And it was not until 1884 — when in the west the District had become a whole suburban network — that the two underground systems uneasily joined hands to form the long-dreamed-of \'inner circuit\'. One of the early objections to underground railways had been that their smoke and steam would prove intolerable. Some favoured ea him pneumatic traction or fireless locomotives, though in practice condensing engines and coke fuel kept the air reasonably breathable in an age of thick beards. But early underground lines were still not sweet places.WORLDWIDE POST CAL

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