A high-speed railway link from London through Kent to the UK end of the Channel Tunnel. Officially known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) and originally as the Union Railway or Continental Main Line (CML). 108 kilometres (67 miles) long, it was built to allow eight trains per hour through to the Channel Tunnel.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
High Speed 1
Her Majesty was on the first train through the tunnel on its official opening...
The award being named after HS1 is confusing since HS1 comes nowhere near Pad...
The first lock was constructed in timber in 1810.  This become delapidated and new locks were built by the Corporation of the City of London 1856-8.  Footbridges were added in 1889 and the barge lo...
Designed and built by Rowland Mason Ordish, as an Ordish-Lefeuvre system modified cable-stayed bridge. It proved to be structurally unsound, so between 1884 and 1887 Sir Joseph Bazalgette incorpora...
An automated light metro system, opened in 1987 and extended four times. 2024: Londonist have an excellent Brief History Of The DLR.
A member of the congregation at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Holland Park killed serving in WW2. Robert Sidney Cohen was born on 17 May 1915 in Shepherds Bush, London, the eldest child of ...
Constructed by the engineer Charles Langbridge Morgan, this station first opened in 1874. Extensively modified between 1985 and 1992. Opened by the Queen in 1991. 2023: Spitalfields Life have many...
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