Information/Autograph request
Picture postcard sent by Bray to The Station Master, Euston Station on 30th March 1905 asking for his autograph and information.
Euston was the first inter-city railway station in London. It opened on 20 July 1837 as the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR). The old station building was demolished in the 1960s and replaced with the present building in the international modern style.
The site was chosen in 1831 by George and Robert Stephenson, engineers of the L&BR. The area was mostly farmland at the edge of the expanding city, and adjacent to the New Road (now Euston Road), which had caused urban development. The station was named after Euston Hall in Suffolk, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Grafton, the main landowners in the area.
The station and railway have been owned by the L&BR (1837-1846),[18] the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) (1846-1923), the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) (1923-1948),[19] British Railways (1948-1994), Railtrack (1994-2002)[20] and Network Rail (2002-present)
