Print, uncoloured lithograph, Basingstoke from Chapel Field, view of the railway, Basingstoke, Hampshire, about mid 1840s.
The railway is the newly opened London and Southampton Railway, renamed the London and South Western Railway, LSWR, 1839. The station has a horse carriage for passengers at its entrance; the disk signal is the distinctive LSWR design by Albinus Martin introduced about 1840; coaches on the train are three compartment ?six wheelers; the locomotive is a 2-2-2, tall chimney, forward dome, ?slanted cylinders, perhaps the Metoer type built at Nine Elms mid 1840s? In the foreground is a corner of Holy Ghiost Chapel.
The railway is the newly opened London and Southampton Railway, renamed the London and South Western Railway, LSWR, 1839. The station has a horse carriage for passengers at its entrance; the disk signal is the distinctive LSWR design by Albinus Martin introduced about 1840; coaches on the train are three compartment ?six wheelers; the locomotive is a 2-2-2, tall chimney, forward dome, ?slanted cylinders, perhaps the Metoer type built at Nine Elms mid 1840s? In the foreground is a corner of Holy Ghiost Chapel.
