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 It superseded Railtrack P.L.C.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
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Network Rail
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London Bridge station award
Princess Anne is mentioned on the plaque but we suspect she did not actually ...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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First Blackfriars Station
SER Blackfriars Station This is the entrance to the former Blackfriars Statio...
King's Cross Station
King's Cross Station -Â 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...
Other Subjects
transportation to Australia
One of the (many) supposed origins of the word 'pom' for an Englishman, is that convicts were branded with the initials of 'Prisoner of Millbank'.
5 memorials
men of Great Northern Railway who gave their lives in WW1
Forgive us, we've used this page as somewhere to hold the picture of the memorial in its original 1920 location.
3 memorials
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...
1 memorial
City and South London Railway / Northern Line
The world's first underground electric railway, the world's first deep tunnel railway, and the first purpose-built railway tunnel under the Thames. This became what we know as the Bank branch of th...
4 memorials
first gas-lit street in the world
The first public street lighting with gas was demonstrated in Pall Mall by Frederick Winsor in 1807. Â In January he lit the street and in June he put on a special gas-lit exhibition here, celebrati...
2 memorials
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