Waterloo Station from the Shell Centre, London 1961
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A 1960s colour photo looking down from the newly constructed Shell Centre Tower at the sprawling platforms and tracks of Waterloo Station in 1961. The image captures a steam locomotive emitting a prominent plume of white smoke as it departs the station hauling a long rake of Southern Region green coaches. To the left, the spire of St John’s Church, Waterloo, stands as a historic landmark amidst a landscape undergoing significant post-war redevelopment. In the background, the dense urban fabric of South London stretches toward the horizon, featuring a mix of Victorian tenements and emerging modernist apartment blocks and office buildings, showcasing the scale of one of Britain’s busiest railway termini during the final years of the steam era.
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