3-053-436 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Terminus of the Madras Railway, 1873. 'The building lately erected at Madras for the railway terminus, which was opened by the Governor of that Presidency, Lord Hobart, soon after his arrival last year, is the subject of one of our Illustrations. It was designed by Mr. George Hardinge for the Madras Railway Company, and has some architectural pretensions, as well as the merits of fitness and convenience for its use. The situation of the railway terminus is on the Black Town Esplanade, outside the north wall of the city, and between this and the village of Rayapuram. It is therefore close to the beach, affording great facilities for the transfer of merchandise or passengers between the land and the sea traffic, while it is in the immediate vicinity of the custom-house. The advantages of railway conveyance have now become familiar to every province of British India, and wall soon effect a mighty change in the condition of that vast territory and of its two hundred millions of people'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.