Tourist's Guide to the County of Surrey, Containing Full Information Concerning All Its Favourite Places of Resort - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... (B)-RAILWAY EXCURSIONS. I. WATERLOO TO SURBITON, WOKING, AND GUILDFORD (L.S.W.R.). Portsmouth Direct Line. Distance to Guildford, 30im. Fares: 6s., 4s. 4d., 2s. 6d. (Refreshment Rooms at Woking and Guildford.) The Waterloo station is approached from the Strand by Waterloo Bridge and Road, and on the Westminster side by York Koad. It has convenient and separate platforms for the main line, Richmond, and suburban traffic, and considerable additions were made to it in 1878 for the accommodation of the Leatherhead and Epsom traffic. This part of the station is called New Waterloo. As the train quits the terminus the tourist gains views (rt.) of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, St. Thomas's Hospital, Millbank, Lambeth Palace, and Doulton's Pottery, with its conspicuous redbrick buildings arising from the colony of workmen's houses around; while on l. is the tall spire of Christ Church in Westminster Road (memorial church to the Rev. Rowland Hill), and the dome of Bethlehem Hospital behind it. li Vauxhall Station. (Tramways run from the other side Vauxhall Bridge to Victoria.) The famous old garden of this name was on the l., and has been built over many years. 2J Queen's Road Station, near which are the L.S.W.R. yards and engine works on l. On rt. glimpses are caught of the railway bridge by which the West-end traffic of the L.B.S.C. and L.C.D. cross the river. The two latter railways are carried over the L.S.W.R., which in its turn goes over the L.N.W.R. from Victoria to Willesden. Immediately beyond are the Victoria suspension bridge and Battersea Park (p. 84), with Chelsea Hospital on the opposite side of the river. A maze of rails is now seen on each side the line, foretelling the approach to that busiest and most perplexing of places, 4 Clapha...
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