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Paddington Station Through Time (Paperback)
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Paddington Station Through Time (Paperback)
Series: Through Time
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List price R465
Loot Price R263
Discovery Miles 2 630
You Save R202 (43%)
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Paddington is part of a hub of underground stations and is home to
the world's most famous bear, named after the station. Revel in the
selection of images of Paddington Through Time and see how Brunel's
masterpiece has stood the test of time. 'I am going to design, in a
great hurry, and I believe to build, a station after my own fancy,'
stated Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1851. That station, the second to
bear the name 'Paddington', was to be another Brunel masterpiece.
His delight at the prospect of building a replacement and permanent
station at Paddington is self-evident. The new station was to be
built on the plot of land just south of the Bishop's Road Bridge,
defined by Eastbourne Terrace and Praed Street on two sides, and by
London Street and the canal on the northeast side. Because the new
station would be located almost entirely within a cutting, there
would be no grand exterior, and instead, Brunel impressed with his
immense roof of iron and glass. Paddington is currently in the
middle of a huge redevelopment that has seen it retain much of its
nineteenth-century design, but updated to suit traffic flows of
today. Millions pass through the station weekly, both to the West
and Wales and to Heathrow on the Heathrow Express.
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