Sentence:  The first Earl's Court station (1871) was a wooden hut in the middle of a market garden. It served a District connection between West Brompton and the West London Line. It managed to <WSD>burn down</WSD> in 1875, and the Earl's Court of today dates from 1878. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To burn completely, so that nothing remains.