The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 27.120/1bb Franklin moved to labs at

Franklin moved to labs at Birkbeck College

transported by horse and cart

Holborn Viaduct from Farringdon Street

The use of the prefabricated Port greatly simplified the problem of supplying the Allied Armies in France

along with a map highlighting key locations from the book

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 27.120/1bb Franklin moved to labs atThe 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