Architectural details of the roof of Fenchurch Street Station, including a roof plan. Coloured drawing, 1853.
- Date:
- 1853
- Reference:
- 46099i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Fenchurch Street station in London was rebuilt in 1853 to cater for the extra services operated by the newly opened London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. The extended station was completed in February 1854 and was 300 ft long and 101 ft wide with a single span crescent truss roof, the subject of the present drawing. There is an engraving of the front of the rebuilt station in the Illustrated London News for 10 December 1853 (Jackson, op. cit.). The present drawing only shows the roof covering and girder details: there would have been another sheet to show elevations and the crescent trussing
Publication/Creation
1853
Physical description
1 drawing : pen and ink, with watercolour
Contributors
Lettering
Blackwall Railway Fenchurch St. Station extension part plan and details of roofing
Lettering continues within the drawing
References note
Alan A. Jackson, London's termini, 2nd ed., Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1985
Reference
Wellcome Collection 46099i
Creator/production credits
In 1853 the London and Blackwall Railway engineer was George Berkeley who was responsible for the design of the new Fenchurch Street station
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Where to find it
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