2-714-865 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'King's Cross Underground Station in 1868', (c1876). Work on the world’s first underground railway began in 1860, by the Metropolitan Railway under chief engineer John Fowler. Kigs Cross station opened in 1863. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]