2-714-864 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Section of the Holborn Viaduct, Showing the Subways', c1876. Work on the world’s first underground railway began in 1860, by the Metropolitan Railway under chief engineer John Fowler. The Holborn viaduct was built between 1863 -1869 by William Haywood and Rowland Mason Ordish. 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]