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Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, [6] [7] is a major central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without.
It was relocated c.1990 when the station was renovated, and moved to a site above the main station concourse, near the entrance from Liverpool Street. An inscription reading "Great Eastern Railway", removed from the nearby Harwich House when it was demolished as part of the renovations, was installed above the relocated memorial.
The original terminus of the 1830 Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was located at Crown Street, in Edge Hill, to the east of and outside the city centre.However, even before Edge Hill had been opened, it was apparent that there was a pressing need for another station to be built, which would this time be closer to the city centre.
The Radisson RED Liverpool Hotel is a historic building in Liverpool, England. It is located on the east side of Lime Street, fronting Lime Street railway station. Opened in 1871 as the North Western Hotel, it more recently served as office space and student accommodation. It was restored to a hotel from 2018 to 2022.
Liverpool Street signal box (2007) The Liverpool Street signal box is a Grade II listed disused signal box at Liverpool Street tube station in Bishopsgate, London. It was opened for operation in 1875 for an extension of the Metropolitan Railway. It was converted to an interlocking machine room in the 1950s.
Kindertransport – The Arrival is an outdoor bronze memorial sculpture by Frank Meisler, located in the forecourt of Liverpool Street station in London, United Kingdom. [1] It commemorates the 10,000 Jewish children who escaped Nazi persecution and arrived at the station during 1938–1939, whose parents were forced to take the decision to ...
The Chingford branch line is a railway line between Clapton Junction (just northeast of Clapton station) and Chingford station. Services run between Liverpool Street station and Chingford, and are operated by London Overground. [note 1] The branch is part of the Lea Valley Lines.
Montage of the Metropolitan Railway's stations from The Illustrated London News December 1862, the month before the railway opened. The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) [a] was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs.