Paddington Station, London: the 'nave' gable of the train shed with its strap iron ornament

NOTES: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer of the Great Western Railway, designed this London terminus for the railway company with the assistance of the architect, Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt.

SOURCE: Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. Views of the Crystal Palace and Park, Sydenham (London, 1854), pl. XVIII NOTES: This lithograph was made from a photograph by P. H. Delamotte.

SOURCE: 'The Inauguration', from Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Dickinson Brothers, (London, 1854).

SOURCE: Giuseppe Valadier. L'Architettura pratica (Rome, 1829-1839), vol. 7 (plate vol.), pl. 232 NOTES: This bridge was designed by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard in 1775 and executed by Abraham Darby III in Coalbrookedale in 1777-1779. It was the first arch bridge of completely iron construction in the world.