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Farringdon has recently received significant upgrades to allow it to meet the needs of a series of major rail upgrade projects: The Thameslink Programme was a major upgrade to the existing north-south Thameslink route, enabling longer and more frequent trains, completed in 2018; and the Four Lines Modernisation involves the wholesale ...
The extension to Aldersgate Street and Moorgate Street (now Barbican and Moorgate) opened on 23 December 1865, [12] and all four lines were open on 1 March 1866. [13] The parallel tracks from King's Cross to Farringdon, first used by a GNR freight train on 27 January 1868, [14] entered a second Clerkenwell tunnel before dropping at a gradient of 1 in 100, passing under the Ray Street Gridiron ...
German submarine U-629 was sunk in the English Channel by a B-24 of No. 53 Squadron RAF. Japanese destroyer Hayanami became the second ship to be torpedoed and sunk in the Sibutu Passage by USS Harder in as many days. American destroyer Meredith struck a mine in the English Channel and was severely damaged. Salvage efforts would be abandoned on ...
Farringdon Station was built close to Farringdon Road, and originally named Farringdon Street Station. [5] The presence of the railway station has led to the surrounding areas of southern Clerkenwell being referred to as Farringdon. Farringdon station under British Rail with a Network SouthEast livery British Rail Class 319 on a Thameslink service
Farringdon Road, a road in Clerkenwell, London; Farringdon Street, an extension of Farringdon Road into the City of London; Farringdon station, a railway station in Clerkenwell which takes its name from Farringdon Road; Farringdon, London, an area of Clerkenwell which also takes its name from Farringdon Road; Farringdon Within, a ward in the ...
Farringdon Halt, on the last working day of the branch. The station opened on 1 May 1931 as Farringdon Halt; the Meon Valley Railway was a particularly difficult line to construct. [1] A goods yard for loading agricultural produce was already sited there and a short wooden platform of one coach-length was built to serve the village in 1930. [2]
A final meeting took place on 2 June 1944 in connection with the Normandy landings (D-day). The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , the Prime Ministers of Canada and South Africa, William Lyon Mackenzie King and Jan Smuts , and other Allied leaders arrived in a special train at Droxford station for a conference at the nearby HQ of U.S ...
Challow railway station is a former railway station [2] about 2 miles (3 km) south of Stanford in the Vale on the A417 road between Wantage and Faringdon.It is named after the villages of West Challow and East Challow, which are 1.5 miles (2.4 km) and 2.5 miles (4 km) southeast of the former station.