GENTRAL RAILWAY STATION FOE LONDON
The “Morning Post” gives an account of a plan proposed by Mr Charles Waring for the construction of a central railway terminus at Northumberland
Avenue, to which arc to be brought the trains of the North Western, the Great Western,and tlieSouth Western railways. Mr Waring proposes to build his new station on that piece of at present vacant ground belonging to the Metropolitan Board of Works which abuts on the Northumberland Avenue and the Whitehall Place, It will he more than double the size of the existing Charing Cross Station. Mr Charles Barry is associated with the work as architect, and Mr J. Wolfe Barry and Mr Aitken as engineers. A conference on the subject of the proposed station has, it is stated, already been held at the Metropolitan Board of Works, when Mr Waring stated that ho was prepared to purchase the necessary land and priviiiges from the Board, and will lodge a Bill in the next session of Parliament asking for authority to carry through the enterprise.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2558, 2 June 1881, Page 2
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174GENTRAL RAILWAY STATION FOE LONDON South Canterbury Times, Issue 2558, 2 June 1881, Page 2
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