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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 ...
In 1984 [6] it was decided to electrify the line between Royston and Shepreth Branch Junction, a junction on the West Anglia Main Line north of Shelford, allowing the reinstatement of through services to Cambridge from London King's Cross via the East Coast Main Line, which was faster than the conventional route from Liverpool Street via the ...
A train to Liverpool Street East Box would be block signalled from the West box. Liverpool Street East - situated at the country end of Platform 11; it had 127 active and 9 spare levers, and controlled traffic passing on or off the Local or Through lines, into or out of platforms 11 to 18. Departing trains would be despatched to the west box.
The London station group is a group of 18 railway stations served by the National Rail network in central London, England.The group contains all 14 terminal stations in central London, either serving major national services or local commuter routes, and 4 other through-stations that are considered terminals for ticketing purposes.
London Liverpool Street – Norwich: 1937–present The Easterling [22] BR: London Liverpool Street – Lowestoft and Yarmouth South Town: 1950 – 1958 The Elizabethan [4] [5] [11] (summer only) BR: London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley (non-stop) [ii] 1953 – 1964 Emerald Isle Express [43] London Euston – Llandudno and Holyhead
King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a passenger railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, on the edge of Central London.It is in the London station group, one of the busiest stations in the United Kingdom and the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line to Yorkshire and the Humber, North East England and Scotland.
A statue of Sir Nigel Gresley made of bronze stands near the booking office of London King's Cross railway station.It was commissioned by the Gresley Society in memory of Sir Nigel Gresley, a locomotive designer who worked in offices at the station and whose designs included Mallard, which set the unbroken steam locomotive speed record in 1938.
There are 14 current railway terminus stations in London (Blackfriars, Cannon Street, Charing Cross, Euston, Fenchurch Street, Liverpool Street, London Bridge, King's Cross, Marylebone, Moorgate, Paddington, St Pancras, Victoria, and Waterloo) and three former terminus stations (Bishopsgate, Broad Street and Holborn Viaduct).