14-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Exhibition shows off 175 years of railway history at Waterloo station

As part of the 175th-anniversary celebrations, a large exhibition about the railway station’s history has appeared in the main concourse.There’s the opening, by Queen Mary, because the King was ill on the day next to an article about how Southern Railway used Hovis loaves in their marketing to explain which routes the trains ran on.
Quite a lot of maps and photos from the early days are here, including the massive semaphore signal rack that used to span the railway just outside the s
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