The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:none a child in a perambulator

a child in a perambulator

The illustration shows sailors at work in the rigging of ships which are moored in front of dock buildings

This photograph appeared in Volume 3 of Reid's 'Views of Westminster and London'

Monument & Blackfriars Bridge visible

Based on extensive research

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:none a child in a perambulatorThe platforms of the completed Notting Hill Gate Station. 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. The first tunneled, or