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The Curzon Street terminus of the London & Birmingham Railway: elevation by Philip Hardwick 1838. The North Euston Hotel at Fleetwood, Lancashire, designed by Decimus Burton and opened in 1841. Until 1847, travellers to Scotland from Euston would stay in Fleetwood before taking a ferry to Ardrossan. The railway pioneer Richard Trevithick demonstrating his experimental locomotive in Euston Square in 1808. This drawing, now at the Science Museum, has recently been exposed as a fake Thomas Rowlandson. Curzon Street Railway station, Birmingham. This was the sister building to the arch and located the station at the other end of the London and Birmingham Railway line. The cover of John Summerson's architectural history of Euston, with a drawing of the Arch by Lynton Lamb, 1959 whose publication was suppressed by the British Transport Commission. Published 1938. Euston Station as depicted in Cousin Chatterbox's Railway Alphabet (Thos. Dean & Son, c.1845) Cover with drawing of the Arch by Norman Wilkinson (?) published c.1934 Engraving of the Euston Arch and Great Hall, and other stations, in Knight's Cyclopaedia of London (London, 1851) A.W.N. Pugin's caricature of 'A show front with convenient additions' (the Euston and Birmingham terminii) contrasted with 'railway bridges on the antient principles' in his Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture (London, 1843) George C. Nash, The L M S at War (London, 1946) The silver model of the Euston Arch made by Carrington & Co. and donated to the Victorian Society by the demolition contractor, Frank Valori (subsequently stolen) Tailpiece in The L M S at War (see above) The medal cast by the Victorian Society in 1983 to celebrate its 25th anniversary

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