Paddington is one of London's-indeed the world's-great railway
stations. Designed basically by Brunel, although others
contributed, it has served its intended purpose of providing a
starting point and a culmination of countless journeys between the
capital, the West Country, the Midlands, Merseyside, Wales and
beyond, to Ireland and America, for over 180 years. In a highly
illustrated book we look at the trains, steam diesel and electric,
which have served it, the people who have passed through, and have
worked there. We also consider its surroundings, which were once
the fields belonging to Westbourne Manor House, where its
locomotive depot would be built. A little further out was Old Oak
Common, now deep in inner suburbia, the GWRs largest depot, still
the home of the High Speed Trains and used as a depot for the Cross
Rail construction. The approach to Paddington involved negotiating
a fascinating complex of lines, serving both goods and passenger
traffic, signal boxes and semaphore signals galore. To this day it
is the only main line London station served by surface Underground
trains.
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