A everlasting exhibition telling the historical past of London Waterloo has been put in within the station’s former worldwide terminal.
As a part of Waterloo station’s one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary (eleventh July 2023), Community Rail labored with railway historian Mike Lamport to put in a brief historic exhibition of London Waterloo, titled From Cholera to Covid. This exhibition highlights photos and tales mapping the social, cultural and transport historical past of London Waterloo.
It was first located on the primary concourse for one week final 12 months to mark the anniversary — and since then, Community Rail have been working with Mike, South Western Railway (SWR) and the station staff at London Waterloo to discover a everlasting house for the exhibition.
This has resulted within the historic exhibition being recreated into vinyl artworks, which have been put in within the glass panels on the perimeter of the ready space within the Waterloo Worldwide Terminal.
Mike Lamport, railway historian, mentioned: “My predominant motivation in curating the Waterloo Story is my household’s 170 12 months lengthy and enduring connection to this nice station which started with my nice grandfather Matthew within the 1850’s and continues at the moment by my son Andrew. I hope that my affection for it exhibits by in a narrative that takes us from cholera to Covid and on to tomorrow.
“From its beginnings as a roadside station, by years of chaotic development which introduced it public ridicule and Royal disapproval, to its early twentieth century ‘Nice Transformation’ making it for a few years London’s Gateway to the World by its Southampton boat prepare, and later Eurostar, connections.”
In different information, Waterloo station’s refurbished bogs have lastly opened, and a brand new public piano has been put in subsequent to the Sidings buying centre.
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