2-791-501 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The New Bricklayers' Arms Terminus of the South-Eastern Railway, 1844. The Bricklayers Arms station in Southwark, south London, was built as an alternative to the London and Greenwich Railway's terminus at London Bridge. 'Mr. W. Cubitt, the engineer in chief of the line, judiciously selected the site of this station, which is a most advantageous one, being...near the Bricklayers'Arms, a travellers' resting-place, long established; the engineer's skill and the capitalists' means have overcome the formidable obstacles presented by marshy surfaces and sluggish streams, and the whole site is now completely- drained and well ballasted'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.