Nine Elms Locomotive Works

The sprawling site beneath your feet was once a powerhouse of the steam age, responsible for birthing over eight hundred locomotives for the London and South Western Railway. These massive iron machines were constructed here in workshops that grew to employ more than two thousand workers at their peak. You are standing on ground where the raw noise of hammers and the hiss of steam once defined the daily rhythm of this district. This was the place where engineers refined the very designs that powered travel across the southern region of England for decades.