The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 27.120/1bb Brockley and Lewisham

Brockley and Lewisham

King George V Dock

Part of the series of 64 photographs documenting the construction of the Metropolitan District Railway from Paddington to Blackfriars via Kensington

Viewed from the nave

transported by horse and cart

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 27.120/1bb Brockley and LewishamThe roof of the completed Paddington (Pread Street) Station, which opened in 1868. 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