The South-western Railway Company have completed the construction of their
branch railway from Nine Elms to the foot of Waterloo Bridge; and are about to open the station there. In preparation for this event, new carriages, of a peculiarly noiseless and easy-moving structure—artistically decorated, too, with panel views of the scenery—have been prepared; and arrangements have been made to admit to the station one hundred cabs, under the control of the Railway management. The trains will leave the station at Waterloo Bridge, which is less than two miles from the Bank, at the times they hitherto left Nine Elms. The new station is five acres and will ultimately be twelve acres in extent: the branch railway is built on a viaduct of three hundred arches, and willjcost about 2,000,000/. The line was to have been opened last week; but the Government Inspector refused his consent till some farther experiments had been made on the girder bridges over the Lambeth roads.
Great alterations and improvements have been proceeding for 801310 time past at the Easton Square terminus. Hempel/is Journal reports that they will render the station "one of the most complete, and, considering its extent, the most qv/input in the world." "The offices will be what may be called centralized in groups, so as to afford the promptest and easiest reference from one to the other parts of each department; and the departments will be grouped so as to keep those of the greatest affinity, and between which there is the greatest intercourse, the nearest to each other." There will be four new platforms for departing trains; and that for the arrival trains will be lengthened to 900 feet.
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