Victorian Architecture
By Jason Morley • general • 13 May 2009
Returning to the UK, one inevitably flys into Heathrow and then takes the Heathrow Express onwards into Paddington. Despite the all-too-common feeling of sadness brought about by the conclusion of a journey, I still find the fantastic Victorian architecture at Paddington a reminder that there is something special about Britain.
On Friday last week, I tried to capture just a little of that grandeur:
Tags: london, paddington, photos, station, trains, travel, victorian
Paddington will always be special for me. It’s the London terminus I always arrived at when I was a child visiting the big city. And I lived across the road from it for a year. And it’s just plain the best!
The roofline you have pictured has a longiudinal gap in it. Originally the intention was that there would be railway lines across the station at 90° to the platforms, with small turntables everywhere, to allow the carriages to be moved across the station. I believe they were never built – but the roofline remains where the lines would have been.