Opened as the 'Commercial Railway' it connected Central London with the docks.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
London And Blackwall Railway
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Bow Road Railway Station
Bow Road Railway Station on the London And Blackwall Railway, built in 1869. ...
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Post Office Railway
The Post Office Railway carried post from Paddington Head Sorting office to Eastern Head Sorting Office in Whitechapel, a distance of 6½ miles (10.5km), with eight stations. Closed because it had b...
Clapham Junction rail disaster
At 8.10 a.m. a crowded passenger train from Basingstoke heading for London Waterloo, crashed into another train that had stopped at a signal. A further empty train travelling in the opposite direct...
Docklands Light Railway
An automated light metro system, opened in 1987 and extended four times. 2024: Londonist have an excellent Brief History Of The DLR.
Frederick Parslow, VC
Born Islington. Mercantile marine, Captain of the SS Anglo-Californian. Died in a German submarine attack off the Irish coast. His son, also Frederick, who was on the ship as the second mate, took...
Robert Seaward
We can't find any confirmation but our guess is that Seaward worked at the tube station and through his efforts some sort of club space was provided for his fellow workers in the building. Can anyo...
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Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
Great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.
William Jenkyn, MA
Nonconformist minister. Born Suffolk. His mother was great-granddaughter of John Rogers. A pro-royalist, he was held in the Tower in 1651 but escaped execution. In 1684 he was again arrested fo...
Karl Marx
Born Trier, Germany (then Prussia). Died Maitland Park Road, Hampstead. Lived briefly in Brussels. From the Institute for Fiscal Studies: "Marx lived for a time after arriving in London in 1849 a...
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