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ALT A police officer stands close to the perilous drop where one of the spans of the Severn Railway Bridge had been demolished
ALT General Elevation and plan of the Forth Bridge, 1880s. The plan shows the bridge from the side, with both the low and high tide mark. This shows that the River Forth at this section has two channels, and the central section of the bridge sits upon a raised section of rock in the middle of the river.
ALT Margate's handsome booking hall, opened 1926. A barrel vaulted ceiling with a semicircular window above the doorways onto the platforms and a simple modernist lamp shade suspended in the centre. The colour scheme is cream, white, and dark green.
ALT The official opening of the City & South London Railway's extension from Clapham South to Morden, September 1926. This view shows the arrival of the first train at Morden, with Lt Col H T C Moore-Brabazon MC, MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, standing in the open gangway door at the front of the driver's cab. A number of men are waiting on the platform.
