Hand-coloured print showing how the Greenwich railway would have crossed the Park south of the Queen's House, had this been agreed, though strongly opposed by Greenwich Hospital and others. The railway, London's first suburban line, was completed from Spa Road, just east of modern London Bridge Station, to Greenwich in 1836 but not extended eastward until 1878, and then in the cut-and-cover College Tunnel which runs under the lawns on the north side of the Queen's House. Greenwich Station was rebuilt by Thomas Smith (also architect to Morden College) at that time, to bring what was originally a high level platform down to ground level as part of the grading down into the cutting west of the tunnel entrance under King Street (now King William Walk).