Bishop's Bridge, sometimes known as Paddington Bridge, is a road bridge in the Paddington district of London which carries Bishop's Bridge Road across the rail approaches to Paddington station and across the adjacent Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal. The original Isambard Kingdom Brunel built bridge was replaced in 2006. The name Bishop's Bridge Road comes from the manor of Paddington which was granted to the Bishop of London, Nicholas Ridley, by Edward VI in the mid 16th Century.
Both bridges in October 2005 viewed from Paddington station, the original cast-iron bridge has been jacked-up to allow construction of its concrete replacement to proceed below
A GWR 4073 Class locomotive waits to depart, adjacent to Brunel's cast-iron bridge (April 1962)
London Paddington station
Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London railway station and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area. The site has been the London terminus of services provided by the Great Western Railway and its successors since 1838. Much of the main line station dates from 1854 and was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. As of the 2022–23 Office of Rail & Road Statistics, it is the second busiest station in the United Kingdom, after London Liverpool Street, with 59.2 million entries and exits.
The Victorian train shed at Paddington in October 2018
The layout of Paddington Station in 1888
Paddington Station in the Victorian era
The Praed Street facade of the Great Western Hotel (now the Hilton London Paddington)
