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However, Gordon later finds out that the station in London is St Pancras. [111] There is a fictional underground Paddington station on the North London System in the novel The Horn of Mortal Danger (1980). [112] Paddington station was the subject of William Powell Frith's 1862 painting The Railway Station.
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English: Spending time in magnificent stations is one of the pleasures of travelling by train. If you find yourself in Paddington Station, Brunel's glorious cathedral in iron and glass, do take a minute to pop along and say hello to this famous lovable traveller. He is, of course, the world's coolest bear: Paddington.
The station was the second opened by the MR at Paddington. The earlier station, named Paddington (Bishop's Road), opened on 10 January 1863. [10] It is north of the mainline station and is served by trains on the Hammersmith branch. From 1 November 1926, the MR provided all Inner Circle services. [10]
It depicts a scene at the busy Paddington Station railway terminus of the Great Western in London.Frith had developed a reputation for producing crowd scenes of everyday life, including Ramsgate Sands (1854) and The Derby Day (1858).
Entrance from the mainline station. In December 2009, Circle line services began serving the station. Originally operating as a loop-line using tracks constructed by the MR and the DR and serving only the station in Praed Street, the Circle line's route was altered to include the Hammersmith branch to increase train frequency on the branch and improve the regularity of Circle line trains.
The Great Western Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial by Charles Sargeant Jagger and Thomas S. Tait.It stands on platform 1 at London Paddington station, commemorating the 2,500 employees of the Great Western Railway (GWR) who were killed in the conflict.
Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England. [1] A medieval parish then a metropolitan borough of the County of London, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Paddington station, designed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel opened in 1847.