Waterloo Station: A History of London's busiest terminus (Paperback)
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Description
London's Waterloo Station is Britain's biggest and busiest railway terminal and, at over 170 years old, has a rich and fascinating history to discover. This book takes an in-depth look at the terminal's past, covering all decades from the 1840s to the present day.
With more than 160 archive and contemporary photographs, it includes:
- Waterloo's precursor, Nine Elms
- The expansion and chaos that occurred in the late nineteenth century
- How Waterloo fared during the two World Wars and
- The Necropolis Railway which, for almost ninety years, conveyed coffins to Brookwood Cemetery.
About the Author
Robert Lordan is a licensed London taxi driver, tour guide and author of The Knowledge: Train Your Brain Like a Cabbie (Quercus) and Waterloo Station (The Crowood Press). He has also written for Metro and Time Out and maintains a website about the capital's history at www.robslondon.com