Erection date: 8/4/2016
{Above the London Transport logo:}
In remembrance of the twelve people killed in the collision between two Central Line trains adjacent to Stratford Station on the 8th April 1953.
E15, Stratford Station, Upper Level
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Stratford Underground crash
The accident, caused by driver error after a signal failure, occurred on the ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Stratford Underground crash
This organisation has been a bit of a political football, often having its na...
We have never seen so many Cecils, Cyrils and Cuthberts on a war memorial, let alone Jocelyns, Joyces and Evelyns - and we don't think th...
See the George Sparkes fountain in Chelsea for another manifestation of this design.
The plaque says that 8 people were killed but has the names of only five: four women and one 7-year-old girl.
Seamus Heaney unveiled the plaque and performed at a poetry reading later in Stratford Town Hall as part of the celebrations for the 150t...
The monument was designed by Hubert C. Corlette and the figure sculpted by Frederick W. Pomeroy. Unveiled by Princess Louise at Kensingto...
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