An automated light metro system, opened in 1987 and extended four times.
2024: Londonist have an excellent Brief History Of The DLR.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Docklands Light Railway
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DLR extension to Lewisham - Greenwich
{Above the CGL Rail and DLR logos:} Docklands Light Railway Lewisham Extensio...
DLR extension to Lewisham - Lewisham
Docklands Light Railway This plaque was unveiled by the Deputy Prime Minister...
Greathead shield at Bank
This 'Greathead' type tunnelling shield ws left at this point 18 metres below...
Other Subjects
Croydon tram derailment
The tram carrying 69 passengers, had left New Addington bound for Wimbledon. At 6.07 a.m. as it approached Sandilands station on a sharp bend, it overturned on its right side. Seven passengers were...
2 memorials
Kindertransport
10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939. This was organised mainly by World Jewish Relief, but many Quakers helped the children at stations on the jo...
Event, Children, Transport, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland
2 memorials
Keith Hill
MP, In 1999 Minister for London bringing London's Red Route Network into full operation.
1 memorial
Thames watermen
From the earliest days until the mid-18th century the Thames was the preferred route for travelling east-west across London, and a barrier which had to be crossed by boat to travel north-south. By...
1 memorial
Surrey Iron Railway Company
The first public railway in England, probably the first in the world. A transport system from London to Portsmouth was needed, either a canal or a tramway. The engineer William Jessop, recommende...
2 memorials
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Edward Welby Pugin
Architect. Born Ramsgate, son of Augustus Welby. Designed Catholic churches in the neo-Gothic style. Surviving works in London: St Monica's and English Martyrs in Prescot Street E1. Died at ho...
1 memorial
Physical Energy
W2, Kensington Gardens
We always knew about this statue but only realised it was a memorial in October 2016 when it was nominated by sculptor Steven Claydon as ...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin
Founder of the USSR. Born and died in Russia. Political theorist and Communist revolutionary. Reviewing a book on Lenin in the Observer, 23 October 2016, Nigel Jones wrote: "... once in power Lenin...
6 memorials
Sun-dial from Waterloo Bridge
NW3, Antrim Grove, Antrim Gardens
The baluster/sundial presents no interesting detail to photograph so we have instead presented a close-up of one of the crowned letters o...
1 subject commemorated
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