has reprinted an article from the Illustrated London News about the building of the railway from London Bridge to Charing Cross.
The company was formed by the South Eastern Railway Company with the sole task of building the extension and the terminal at Charing Cross, built on the site of Hungerford Market.
The picture shows the seal of the company.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Charing Cross Railway Company
Ewer Street Burial Ground {On the small information board:} Site of Ewer Str...
SER Blackfriars Station This is the entrance to the former Blackfriars Statio...
Part of the Regent's Canal. Built in 1820 to allow boats to moor and unload cargo, initially brought long distance but it soon became used primarily to transport local coal and building materials. ...
From the magnificent Edith Streets: Â The Bridge, with its control tower alongside, was opened in 1954. The first footbridge was built in 1804, and the first road bridge in 1815. The bridge lifts le...
Elizabethan seafarer. With Robert Bell he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers.
The first steam railway to have a terminus in London. Originally it ran, largely on viaducts, between Deptford and Spa Road Bermondsey. By 1838 it had been extended at both ends: from Deptford to G...
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