Erection date: 8/4/2016
{Above the London Transport logo:}
In remembrance of the twelve people killed in the collision between two Central Line trains adjacent to Stratford Station on the 8th April 1953.
E15, Stratford Station, Upper Level
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Stratford Underground crash
The accident, caused by driver error after a signal failure, occurred on the ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Stratford Underground crash
This organisation has been a bit of a political football, often having its na...
To the left of the monument is a sculpture of a wounded soldier and to the right, a woman clutching a child and variously identified as h...
It's certainly a vent shaft for the car park beneath, but this column, or rather the flaming urn, is apparently also a memorial, accordin...
The expression "our glorious dead" suggests that this memorial was raised to the dead in the armed forces only and not to any civilian dead.
The separate, temporary, addition can be seen in our photo - the row of 6 small white crosses, on a white base, which does not appear to ...
Originally surrounded by metal railings which have since been replaced with the hedge.
