The Magnificent Paddington Station – A Hidden World Beneath the Rails Did you know that beneath the grand glass roof of London’s Paddington Station once stood an enormous locomotive shed — built in the 1850s by none other than Isambard Kingdom Brunel himself? Before the age of diesel and electric trains, this was the beating heart of the Great Western Railway — where the mighty King George V, the elegant Castle Class, and countless Prairie tanks were turned, coaled, and prepared for journeys wes