Identifier: ourironroads00will (find matches)
Title: Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Frederick Smeeton, 1829-1886
Subjects: Railroads -- History Railroads -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Bemrose & sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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streets ofLondon. Yet so it is. When the traveller by the MidlandRailway arrives at Kentish Town and proceeds to MoorgateStreet, he passes under two railways at St. Pancras—one abovethe other—and soon finds himself at the Kings Cross station, onthe north side of the Metropolitan line. The train again starts,runs for a few minutes, and emerging from a tunnel, the travelleris now on the south side of the Metropolitan ; in that shortdistance he has passed under the Underground. Our engravingon the next page indicates the arrangements. It shows thedouble line of the Midland, which extends from Camden Townstation, and the single line tunnels of the Great Northern,about half a mile long, that come from the Kings Cross ter- i6S OUR IRON ROADS. minus. Between the Midland and the Great Northern lines areseveral cross tunnels— a perfect rabbit warren of them, as anengineer remarked to us—but they are little used. The Midland,the Great Northerly and the Dover and Chatham trains run from
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1AL0ERSCA7E s ST«TION THE UNDERGROUND UNDER THE UNDERGROUND LINE. the Kings Cross (Metropolitan) station, parallel with the originalMetropolitan line proper for a distance of about 1,000 yards;they then descend by an incline of I in ioo until they have passedthrough a tunnel under the Metropolitan, and then they rise by TUNNEL UNDER THE SEVERN. I69 a steep slope 230 yards long of I in 40 * up to Farringdon station ;or, rather, three feet below the level of the Farringdon station ofthe Metropolitan proper. The difference between the rails ofthe two lines at the bottom of the dip is sixteen feet and a fewinches. Under the Smithfield Market, too, there is a most intricatearrangement of tunnel works. Here, in pitch darkness, exceptfor the light of the lamps, are three main lines and three goodsstations on each side of the line ; and all with curves, points,cranes, signals, and sidings. Another railway tunnel in the metropolis is of special interest.It belongs to the East London Railway.

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