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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: bykerlads on Tuesday 05 November 13 15:29 GMT (UK)
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I was in London last weekend and noticed the splendid but sadly huge memorial to railway employees at Waterloo Station who had lost their lives in the service of their country. It's well worth a look.
Also, very impressed by Kings Cross station- they have an enormous poppy installed prominently in the new concourse. Very pleasing to see that temporary lists of the Fallen have been installed in the station, presumably because the original memorials have been temporarily removed during the renovations to the station entrances.
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There is an impressive memorial to the GWR fallen at the side of Platform 1 at Paddington.
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Derby Railway Station has a wonderful set of War Memorials along Platform 1, including if I remember rightly for the Boer War. There is also a list available of people from the Midland Railway company who went to fight in WW1.
Derby Girl
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There's one on Exeter St.David's as well.
Barb
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All those young lads, cut down in their prime.
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Don't forget the GWR memorial on Taunton station. Whether or not it duplicates entries on the Paddington memorial is unknown to me.
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There is a war memorial on the station at Stoke on Trent commemorating the employees of the North Satffordshire Railway who were killed in World War 1
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I recall there being a Midland railway memorial at Lincoln St. Marks station, but that is 50 years ago. I believe it was removed at one stage while some work was done at the station. Hopefully it has been restored to its original location. If it is not already in existance i believe we need a location guide to railway war memorials, including those to individuals like the one at York to Mr. Milner who was killed in the Baedecker raid.
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There is also the memorial in Victoria Station Manchester, again a huge number of men.
I would agree with Redroger that the railway memorials should be catalogued, if this has not already been done.
The way that a temporary memorial has been set up in Kings Cross suggests that the appropriate awareness and respect exists nowadays - let's hope that no similar memorials were "lost" in the past.
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The site "UK Railway war memorials" states that the IWM records around 400 memorials 35 of which were recorded by Railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping. Significantly several not recorded by the IWM have been located.
However, some company memorials particularly those in Wales incorporated into the GWR and the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway have not been located. So, something to look out for I would think.
On the subject of legibility of the memorials the limestone memorial to staff of the NER located in York has become very difficult to read in parts, but I understand there is a full transcription located at the NER, also in York
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Liverpool Street, London has one as well