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With Dolphins
The lamp posts were designed by George John Vulliamy and modelled by Charles Henry Driver architect of the Victoria Embankment wall and river stairs. They were based on statues of dolphins or fish with intertwined tails at the Fontana del Nettuno in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, which was constructed in 1822–23.
lit up building along Victoria Embankment. I really love city lights at night, it's a shame it totally ruins the sky
Embankment Underground Station (District, Circle, Bakerloo and Northern Lines), 12 July 2025.
The station was opened by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR) in May 1870 on its eastwards extension of its South Kensington-Westminster line to St.Paul's (now Blackfriars), which ultimately was to form a component of the ‘Inner Circle’ service shared with the Metropolitan Railway (MR). The intention was that the Inner Circle connect all or most of London’s main line termini.
Although the MDR began as a company closely associated with the MR and expected one day to merge with it, in fact the MR and MDR quite quickly fell out with each other and the MDR branded itself the District Railway (DR), although still legally the Metropolitan District Railway.
The DR station was built in conjunction with the construction of The Embankment although named Charing Cross since it was at the south end of Charing Cross main line station. The DR station was designed by Sir John Fowler and had an overall roof.
In March 1906 the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (BS&WR) constructed its own deep level tube line and station underneath the DR station and linked to it and this was named Embankment from the start. In March 1914 the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR) extended its tube line from its Charing Cross station (at the north end of the main line station and adjacent to the BS&WR’s Trafalgar Square station) to a new platform next to the BS&WR’s at Embankment (both companies belonging to the Underground Electric Railways of London) and linked to it.
The CCE&HR/BS&WR station was then renamed Charing Cross (Embankment) although the DR sub-surface station remained as Charing Cross. The CCE&HR Charing Cross station was renamed Strand at the same time.
As the CCE&HR, BS&WR and DR all fell under the aegis of the UERL, a completely new surface station building for all three railways was built at the same time (i.e. 1914), designed by Harry Wharton Ford (the DR’s architect) in Edwardian neo-Georgian Renaissance style and named Charing Cross in 1915, Fowler’s trainshed being removed at the same time. The combined station was renamed Charing Cross Embankment in 1974 and in 1976 again renamed Embankment when the newly merged Trafalgar Square/Strand station was renamed Charing Cross.
Pictured is the ticket hall.
Although relatively dry now - this is where the flooding turned serious. The water in Fishlake Meadows eventually rose and breached Fishlake stream. This blocked the flow in the stream and it overflowed down this embankment. eventullay the flow started to erode the earth embankment - at which point emergency measures were put in force at several points upstream and in Romsey town.