The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

The Charing-Cross Railway Terminus.

The structure, with all the rest of the works connected
with it, the hotel excepted, is fast approaching completion,
and when finished will be one of the most extensive build-
ings of fhe kind in the metropolis, as it will be among the
most convenient to the public. The frontage of the
edifice will stand back from the line of the Strand about
120 ft., leaving a fine open space opposite the Church of
St. Martin. in-the-fields, and affording commodious ap-
proaches to the station. The building, when complete, will
occupy the whole of the ground east and west between
Craven and Villiers streets, a distance of nearly 300 ft., and
backward to the margin of the river; in other words, it will
take in the entire site of what used to be Ilungerford-mar.
ket, and a great deal of the adjacent property besides. The
general plan of the station includes, as its most conspicuous
feature, a hotel of magnificent proportions, which is being
erected from designs by Mr. E. M. Bury, the architect.
This part of the building will present a front of five storys
towards the Strand, with a wing of equal elevation, occupy-
ing the greater part of the western aide of Villiers-street.
The hotel is being built of atone and white bricks, orna-
mented here and there with terracotta. The Strand front
will be surmounted by two lofty towers, one at each end,
and have a pointed roof somewhat like that of the West-
minster Palace Hotel. The terminus itself will be covered
by a lofty roof of iron and glass, with a span of about 170 ft,
and similar in appearance and mode of construction to that
of the New-street station of the London andNorth-Western
Railway at Birmingham. Nearly the whole of the basement
story fronting the Strand will be devoted to booking.officeB,
waiting-rooms, places of entrance and exit, and the like,
with an elegant roof or awning projecting over the foot and
carriage way outside. The principal entrance to the hotel
will be by a handsome portico at the corner of Villiers.
street. Mr. Lucas is the contractor for
are now employed.themaso nsroymoef
3thooe
hotel, at which about 150 menparts of
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£lOOO is expended weekly
black country" during the last
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h eminent engineer, is
also the principal contractor for efnoctnthigehPtu.
from a design by Mr. Hawkshaw,tht
who constructed the bridge of the Charing-cross Railway,
Mr. Henry Sharp,
one of four brothers, three of whom
management of which ho is assisted by
are now engaged in
eestation works, in the
e
metropolis. Mr. Stanton is the reside
the direction of similar public undertakingtsenineer. The
nin b or near the
railway in crossing the river will be carried on four lines,
seven two each way, but these expand fan-wise into
lines in connection with the terminus. The se
bridge itself
different
On the
was recently subjected to a severe preliminarytest.
first span on the Surrey side a weight equal to about 700
tons was placed. The result, it is understood, was a
less
of
deflec-
tion of only three-eighths of an inch, and on the removal
the pressure that part of the structure set back to within
than an eighth of an inch of its original position. A path-
way for foot passengers, about 7 feet wide, with an orna-
mental balustrade, is now being carried along each side of
th
l
bridge, and the bridge itself is being adapted for the
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