Entrance to Euston Station, London, c 1840s.

Watercolour showing Euston Arch and flanking buildings with figures in the foreground. Railway architecture symbolished the pride felt by railway directors in their enormous achievements. Philip Hardwick (1792-1870) designed the famous Euston Doric Arch in 1836 for the London & Birmingham Railway whose route had been selected by George Stephenson. The arch was demolished in 1962.