2001

Network Rail

Government-created owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain. It superseded Railtrack P.L.C.

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London Bridge station award

Princess Anne is mentioned on the plaque but we suspect she did not actually ...

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Asquith Xavier

Unveiled in the the fiftieth anniversary year of his victory.

First Blackfriars Station

SER Blackfriars Station This is the entrance to the former Blackfriars Statio...

King's Cross Station

King's Cross Station - Lewis Cubitt (1799 - 1883) architect. The station was ...

King's Cross war memorial - 3. post-renovations

{On the left side of the rusty information panel:} The war memorial at King’s...

Lewisham train disaster

In memory of those who lost their lives. Lewisham train disaster, 4th Decembe...

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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...

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first thoroughfare under a navigable river in the world

See Brunel's Thames Tunnel.

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Spitfire aircraft

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Richard Green

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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