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Network Rail

Categories: Transport

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 It superseded Railtrack P.L.C.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Network Rail

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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.

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First Blackfriars Station

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

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King's Cross Station

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

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

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

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Lewisham train disaster

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

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Other Subjects

Potters Bar rail crash

Potters Bar rail crash

A West Anglian Great Northern train left King's Cross at 12.45 bound for King's Lynn. At 12.55 it crossed over a set of points on which the blades moved suddenly without warning. The rear of the tr...

Event, Tragedy, Transport

2 memorials
St Pancras Basin

St Pancras Basin

Formerly known as the Midland Railway Basin (though we could find nothing under thatn name). Opened as a coal wharf.  1958 converted to a pleasure craft area.  Now home to the St Pancras Cruising C...

Place, Commerce, Transport

1 memorial
National Maritime Museum

National Maritime Museum

One of a trio of Greenwich museums, the others being the Royal Observatory and the Queen's House.

Group, Armed Forces, History, Museums / Libraries, Transport

3 memorials
Rotherhithe Tunnel

Rotherhithe Tunnel

Road tunnel crossing under the River Thames, connecting Rotherhithe to the Ratcliff district of Limehouse. Designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, it was constructed using both a tunnelling 'shield' a...

Building, Engineering, Transport

7 memorials

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Lieutenant Colonel Wilson Victor Edwards

Lieutenant Colonel Wilson Victor Edwards

Wilson Victor Edwards was born on 19 July 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA the fifth of the six children of James Barrett Edwards (1877-1952) and Emory Bertie Edwards née Wilson (1880-1929). Hi...

Person, Armed Forces, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial
Thornton's Corner

Thornton's Corner

BR3, Beckenham High Street, 102 - 104

Thornton's Corner Beckenham Journal, 1881 - 1965 First British Airmail Post Office, 9th August 1902. Bromley & Beckenham Philatelic ...

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Sir Noel Caron

Sir Noel Caron

Close friend of King James I. Dutch Ambassador to the court, 1609-24. 1602–3 Elizabeth granted him a house in South Lambeth where he lived until his death. From this plan we think this house was ab...

Person, Philanthropy, Netherlands

1 memorial
Unknown warrior arrival

Unknown warrior arrival

SW1, Victoria Station

The vehicle used for the delivery was the Cavell Van, the railway wagon which had previously been used for two ceremonial journeys from D...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Rhaune Laslett-O'Brien

Rhaune Laslett-O'Brien

W10, Portobello Road / Tavistock Sq

Unveiled during the Notting Hill Carnival, 2011.

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators