Full name Connex South Eastern. Train operators in the south-east of England, part of a French based company. Its franchise was due to run until 2011, but the Strategic Rail Authority decided to cut it short, citing poor financial management. At the time it was widely thought that the company should be known by its first syllable only!
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Connex
Blackheath Station opened for passenger traffic on Monday July 30 1849. To ma...
In memory of those who lost their lives. Lewisham train disaster, 4th Decembe...
From the website: "Travel in comfort Between Scotland and London, allowing you to arrive refreshed The Caledonian Sleeper is the most civilised way to travel between Scotland and London, allowing ...
The first qualified female supersonic pilot and the first to fly Concorde. Born at the house with the plaque, she was raised in Bognor Regis and left school aged 15 to become a hairdresser but the...
Our picture source, HSomerville provides a thorough history of this area and says "St Saviour's Dock was created in the 13th century by the Cluniac monks of Bermondsey Abbey."
American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-clas...
Person, Commerce, Industry, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Transport
Former public transport company, about which we can discover virtually nothing. Its premises appear in an old photo "Pickets outside the British Motor Cab Company's Garage" but the location is no...
