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

The Charing-Cross Railwa4 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 the 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 Hungerford-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. Barry, the architect.
This part of the building will present a front of five stor 3' -s
towards the Strand, with a wing of equal elevation, occupy-
ing the greater part of the western side of Villiers-street.
The hotel is being built of stone 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 and North-Western
Railway at Birmingham. Nearly the whole of the basement
story fronting the Strand will be devoted to booking. offices,
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 the masonry of the
hotel, at which about 150 men are now employed. Some 300
more are engaged in other parts of the works, and about
11000 is expended weekly in wages. Much of the ironwork
has been delayed by a strike among the puddlers in " the
black country" during the last fortnight. Mr. Wythes,
who constructed the bridge of the Charing-cross Railway,
from a design by Mr. Hawkshaw, the eminent engineer, is
also the principal contractor for the station works, in the
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the direction of similar public undertakings in or near the
metropolis. Mr. Stanton is the resident engineer. The
railway in crossing the river will be carried on four lines,
two each way, but these expand fan-wise into seven different
lines in connection with the terminus. The bridge itself
was recently subjected to a severe preliminary test. On the
first span on the Surrey side a weight equal to about 700
tons was placed. The result, it is understood, was a deflec-
tion of only three-eighths of an inch, and on the removal of
the pressure that part of the structure set back to within less
than an eighth of an inch of its original
railway,ge position. A path-
way for foot passengers, about 7 feet wide, with an orna-
mental balustrade, is now being carried along each side of
the bridge
railway, and the bridge itself is being adapted for the

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