Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — Vast Railway Stations. [ARTICLE]

Vast Railway Stations.

The centre of London will before long be turned into a collection of vast railway stations. From north to south, from east to west, there is but one desire on ’Oie part of a railway director—to increase the size of the terminus of his line. The enlargement of Euston Staton has brought prominently before the public through the destruction of an open piece of ground adjoining ihe Hampstead road. The accommodation at Liverpool street has already been pronounced insufficient for the traffic on a bank holiday. A new bridge across the Thames and a new station are contemplated by the managers of the Chatham and Dover Railway, and, if their attempt to obtain a fresh outlet for the Londoner through Croydon to Surrey and Sussex should prove successful, they will be urgently required at once. At Waterloo station the work of patching and increasing has been recommended after the briefest of intermissions, and within a short time 55,090 square feet will have been added to one of the most inconvenient stations in London, &pall Mall Gazette,