Person    | Male  Born 1930  Died 1991

Eric Dixon

Categories: Transport

Eric Dixon

Transport campaigner. There is a plaque dedicated to him on West Hampstead Underground station, but we can't find anything about him.

2023: Deborah Chowney kindly sent us some information she found online. In a parliamentary report (pdf), page 1 details a session, 1983-84, where the petitioners are Eric Dixon and Edward Chambers, representing the Jubilee and Bakerloo Line Users' Committee, the subject being the London Docklands Railway (No 2) Bill. The petitioners claimed the right .... against a clause in the Bill providing for additional fares by way of penalty surcharges".  It's all quite legalistic but it seems their petition was disallowed.

Our colleague, Andrew Behan writes "As for Eric Dixon himself, I was unable to trace anything apart from an entry in Probate Records that shows an Eric Dixon of 10 Hilltop Road, London, NW6 who died on 27 December 1991. Administration was granted on 17 August 1992 and his estate totalled £52,233.  I believe that this is probably our man, but without being able to find anything further, I cannot be absolutely sure that this is him."

2024: John Davis forwarded to us: "John Saynor, Chair of WHAT, writes of Eric: “He was one of WHAT’s early activists. He was a transport campaigner and also a leading member of the Jubilee and Bakerloo Lines Users’ Committee. He was ‘A constant thorn in the flesh of London Transport’. He also campaigned on local issues in West Hampstead, such as reopening the ‘Granny Dripping Steps’ footbridge and for better Post Office Services.”

Virginia Berridge, previous Chair of WHAT, added:

"I inherited as chair a folder entitled ‘Eric Dixon memorial’.  This had details of Eric and discussion about the memorial on the tube station. When I gave up as chair I passed much WHAT documentation onto to Camden archives including this file. You might want to include a reference to the WHAT archive and this file which is located there. The archive is in Holborn library and the archivist is Tudor Allen."

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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