Edward Watkin
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Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet was a British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur. He was an ambitious visionary, and presided over large-scale railway engineering projects to fulfil
Watkin by Augustus Henry Fox now in the National Railway Museum
"The Railway Interest". Caricature by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1875.
Watkin's high-speed Great Central Main Line
The first and only completed stage of Watkin's Wembley Tower (c.1900)
Great Central Main Line
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The Great Central Main Line, also known as the London Extension, is a former main line railway in the United Kingdom. The line was opened in 1899, built by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire R
Edward Watkin
…companies. Among his more notable projects were: his expansion of the Metropolitan Railway, part of today's London Underground; the construction of the Great Central Main Line, a purpose-built high-speed railway line; the creation of a pleasure garden with a partially constructed iron tower at Wembley; and a failed attempt…
Nottingham Victoria railway station
Belgrave and Birstall station, typical of the island platform design used on the London Extension
10am London to Manchester express hauled by LNER A3 Pacific No.60063 'Isinglass' at Marylebone in May 1956