Group    From 1862  To 1923

Great Eastern Railway

Categories: Transport

Formed from an amalgamation of the ECR, EAR, NMR, NR and EUR. Ceased to exist when it become a part of the LNER. Primarily linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich but also served much of East Anglia.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Great Eastern Railway

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Loughton Station

Loughton is a London Underground station on the Central line, and is a Grade ...

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Stratford Depot

Other sources give varying opening and closing dates for the depot.

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Great Eastern Railway

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WW1 at Liverpool Street Station

An error in one of the names (Cleathers / Cleathero) has been pointed out to ...

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Other Subjects

Roger Blake

Roger Blake

Hackney Council provided this information in 2015: The high level walkway between Hackney Central and Hackney Downs stations was dedicated to Hackney Council’s former Principal Transport Planner, R...

Person, Transport

1 memorial
Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge

Named not for its own two towers but for the nearby, pre-existing Tower of London. Tower Bridge was designed by Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with the engineer, John Wolfe Barr...

Building, Tourism / Traditions, Transport

5 memorials
Purley air crash

Purley air crash

A de Havilland DH.34 G-EBBX of Imperial Airways, which had only just taken off from Croydon Airport bound for Paris, crashed at Purley in Surrey. All seven passengers and the pilot were killed.  A ...

Event, Tragedy, Transport

1 memorial
Ladbroke Grove rail disaster / Paddington rail crash

Ladbroke Grove rail disaster / Paddington rail crash

Also referred to as the Paddington rail crash. At 8.06am, a Thames train bound for Bedwyn in Wiltshire left Paddington station. Two minutes later, as it sped along at 41mph, it went through a signa...

Event, Tragedy, Transport

2 memorials
Blackheath Station

Blackheath Station

Railway station served by trains from London and the North Kent and Bexleyheath lines. It was built using London Brick to a design by George Smith.

Building, Property, Transport

1 memorial