The London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway - the Purfleet Station, 1856. Creator: Harvey Orrin Smith.
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The London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway - the Purfleet Station, 1856. 'The length of the railway is forty-two miles...The construction has been carried on under the joint superintendence of the well-known engineers, Mr. Bidder and Mr. John Fowler...The hamlet of Purfleet is on rising ground, and near the mouth of the Marditch stream, which here forms a little harbour...In the View is shown a portion of the railway, passing very near the river'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
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- Harvey Orrin Smith, attributed to: British: Artist, engraver, printmaker
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- George Parker Bidder: British, English: Engineer, founder of the Electric Telegraph Company, child prodigy
- Sir John Fowler: British: Civil engineer
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