2-798-658 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Elsenham Station, 1845. Railway station at Elsenham in Essex, one of the stops on the newly opened line from London to Cambridge and Ely. The line was 'highly to the credit...of the engineer, Mr. Robert Stephenson, and of the contractors, that the work has been executed in so admirable a manner; during the whole transit of the train, no jolting, no undulating motion was perceptible; the engine and the carriages ran as smoothly as balls on a billiard-table, and not an oscillation was felt. Leaving Bishop Stortford station, the train passed on by Standstead station...by Elsenham and Newport stations; all built in the Elizabethan, or Tudor, style of architecture, neat and commodious; the houses of the last-named village presenting their white sides and fronts to the spectator, and standing out well from the green landscape by which they are surrounded'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.