Entrance to the locomotive engine house Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Mr Punch looks sternly up

Mr Punch looks sternly up at Prime Minister Gladstone

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on the 16th April

Unions were still relatively small and their reputation was not altogether unblemished

with sailing vessels at sea and at anchor

Entrance to the locomotive engine house Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Mr Punch looks sternly upEntrance to the locomotive engine house, Camden Town, London, 1839. Scene during the construction of the London & Birmingham Railway. Under the guidance of chief engineer Robert Stephenson, the 112 mile line running from Curzon Street station in Birmingham to Euston station in London, took 20,000 men almost five years to complete. The railway was finally completed on 17th September 1838, becoming the first railway into London.