Plan and Section of the Proposed Extension of the London & Birmingham Railway, from Camden Station to Farringdon Street, in the City of London. 1845. Oblong folio.

Engr. title, 7 engr. plans & 7 corresponding engr. cross-section diagrams. Orig. blue-green printed wrappers, roan spine; spine defective, edges a little chipped. No copies recorded on Copac or OCLC; not listed in the collection of the National Railway Museum. A very large format, 75 x 59cm, set of plans for a proposed extension of the London & Birmingham Railway. The detailed diagrams, drawn to a scale of 100 feet to an inch, show the line heading east from the London & Birmingham Railway's depot at Camden, through the parishes of St Pancras, St Marys Islington, St James Clerkenwell, St John Clerkenwell, St Sepulchre London, before reaching a terminus on the site of the Fleet Prison in the Parish of St Brides, a distance of 3 miles 4½ chains. The western end of the route shows the line conveyed above ground level, on a succession of bridges and raised embankments, while the eastern end shows the line dropping into a tunnel of almost two miles in length. The plans were never realised, and the following year the London & Birmingham Railway was absorbed into the newly formed London & North Western Railway. A line was eventually constructed heading east from Camden Town, but it followed a more northerly route. Opened in 1850 as part of the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway, it was soon renamed the North London Line, and is still in use as part of the London Overground network. …