91³Ô¹ÏÍø

Plaque | War dead | WW1

Great Central Railway London and District Goods Department Staff

Inscription

{Beneath the Great Central Railway coat of arms:}
Great Central Railway London
To the glory of god and in memory of the following London and District Goods Dept. staff who paid the supreme sacrifice in the Great War 1914 - 1919.

{Beneath 31 names (See commemorated subjects:}
Erected by their comrades and the general staff.

Site: Marylebone Station war memorials (3 memorials)

NW1, Melcombe Place, Marylebone Station

These 3 plaques are in the place previously occupied by the John Betjeman and Marylebone Station plaques, which have been moved to a location further down the concourse. The 3 new plaques appeared here in about early 2016. The Goods Department Staff plaque looks like it might have been originally erected, elsewhere, shortly after WW1; the other two are modern.

2016: Our contact at TfL, Mike Ashworth, tells us that all three of these are "replicas funded by the Railway Heritage Trust as two were lost and the one original survivor is in the NRM at York and has been used to make a replica."

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

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Great Central Railway London and District Goods Department Staff

Subjects commemorated i

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...

91³Ô¹ÏÍø

Fred Bean

Great Central Railway, London and District Goods Department employee killed i...

91³Ô¹ÏÍø

Harry Bennett

Great Central Railway, London and District Goods Department employee killed i...

91³Ô¹ÏÍø

William F. Best

Great Central Railway, London and District Goods Department employee killed i...

91³Ô¹ÏÍø

Show all 33

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Great Central Railway London and District Goods Department Staff

Created by i

Great Central Railway

A railway company which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Li...

91³Ô¹ÏÍø

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Great Central Railway London and District Goods Department Staff

Also at this site i

Great Central Railway Chief Goods Manager's Office Employees

Great Central Railway Chief Goods Manager's Office Employees

Andrew Behan has researched all the names on this plaque and writes that it w...

91³Ô¹ÏÍø

Great Central Railway Engineers Office Staff

Great Central Railway Engineers Office Staff

Great Central Railway Engineers Office Marylebone. In memory of L. Blanden H....

91³Ô¹ÏÍø

Nearby Memorials

Dickens at Cobley Farm

Dickens at Cobley Farm

N12, Queen's Avenue, 70

Returned from his first trip to America Dickens spent some time here in 1842-3, and wrote Martin Chuzzlewit, based partly on his time in ...

5 subjects commemorated
R. H. Tawney

R. H. Tawney

NW5, Lissenden Gardens, Parliament Hill Mansions, 21 - 30

The Tawney plaque is on the first floor, Wood on the second.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
St Nicholas churchyard extension - south gate

St Nicholas churchyard extension - south gate

W4, Chiswick Wharf, St Nicholas Church

The inscription is distressed to the extent that it is partially illegible. We believe it refers to the same gift as that on one of the p...

1 subject commemorated
Beresford Pite

Beresford Pite

N1, Thornhill Square, Islington West Library

The text we have transcribed is off a very dull plaque on this wall near the ground. The photograph shows the name plaque, high on the bu...

4 creators
Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick

WC1, Gower Street

The world’s first passenger-carrying railway was opened in Euston Square, or possibly Gower Street. It went round in a circle and cost a ...

1 subject commemorated, 3 creators