By Steven Brindle
Paddington Station is one of the great interiors of London. Paddington, the Great Western Railway, and their principal designer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, are at the heart of railway history. Railways were one of the defining phenomena of Victorian Britain and one of Britain's many great gifts to the world, so the building of the GWR has a place in world history.
This history forms the background to this book: an account of the station that epitomizes the GWR and its operations, but which is also an important work of architecture.
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