Photography — 1866-1868
The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway
A group of railway construction workers, or 'navvies', pose for the camera inside the uncompleted Paddington (Praed Street) 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 tunnelling shield by James Henry Greathead. The first tunnelled, or 'tube', railway in London was the City & South London Line, which opened in 1890.
- Category:
- Photography
- Object ID:
- IN37528
- Object name:
- The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway
- Object type:
- photograph, albumen print
- Artist/Maker:
- Flather, Henry
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- Production date:
- 1866-1868
- Material:
- paper, card
- Measurements/duration:
- H 190 mm, L 241 mm (image size), H 313 mm, L 417 mm (mounted)
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- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
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- Credit:
- Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund and the MLA PRISM Grant Fund
- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
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- License this image:
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