The South-Eastern and London Chatham and Dover Companies

Arthur H. Beavan had this to say in Imperial London, published in 1901, about the combined South-Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover Companies:

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The amalgamated South-Eastern, and London, Chatham and Dover Companies, are credited with 620 miles, and have practically the monopoly of the Kentish traffic, a bit of Surrey and Sussex, and the bulk of the Anglo-French service.

With this union there dawned upon a public, impatient of the unpunctuality of both these lines, a hope of better things; but its realization is long in coming.

The South-Eastern is one of the oldest lines projected from the Metropolis.

It was opened as far as Folkestone in 1843, and was extended to Dover in the following year.

Until 1864, it had only a shed-like terminus at London Bridge, entailing a tremendously long cab journey from the outlying parts of town; but in that year the Charing Cross terminus was opened, approached by one of the ugliest bridges ever designed by Sir John Hawkshaw.

Next: Locomotive London in 1900: the City Terminus at Cannon Street.