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8 unusual facts about Liverpool Street station


Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs

His father had fled to England the day the Nazis arrived in Czechoslovakia and young Alf was to meet him at Liverpool Street station.

Attack of the Grey Lantern

The video notoriously featured the band throwing £25,000 in five pound notes onto the main concourse of London's Liverpool Street station during rush hour and watching the ensuing chaos.

Bryn Station

In the Norwegian version of the board game Monopoly, Bryn is the fourth railway station on the board, in the spot corresponding to Short Line (Atlantic City version) or Liverpool Street station (London version).

Edward Middleton Barry

Among the projects jointly attributed to them are new chambers at Inner Temple, London (completed in 1879), and the design of the Great Eastern Hotel at London’s Liverpool Street station, completed in 1884, after Edward's death.

Liverpool Street

Liverpool Street station, a major mainline railway station in Central London, England

Prittlewell railway station

This station and all trains serving it are operated by Greater Anglia, which has direct services into London Liverpool Street every 20 minutes off peak.

Southend Victoria railway station

The typical Monday to Friday off-peak and Saturday service frequency is three trains per hour to London Liverpool Street.

Most services operate to and from London Liverpool Street and are operated by Greater Anglia.


Bishopsgate

--(Weinreb and Hibbert 1983: 127)--> The 17th century facade of Sir Paul Pindar's House, demolished to make way for Liverpool Street railway station in 1890, on Bishopsgate was also preserved and can now be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Hook Continental

The Hook Continental was a passenger train running between London's Liverpool Street Station and Harwich Parkeston Quay where it connected with the night ferry sailing to the Hook of Holland in the Netherlands.

Hunstanton railway station

Most through services from Liverpool Street station were withdrawn from 1959, leaving Hunstanton with mainly a DMU service to and from King's Lynn.

Metropolitan Free Hospital

However, in the 1870s, the Devonshire Square site was wanted by the Great Eastern Railway Company to extend their London terminus, Liverpool Street Station.

National Express East Anglia

Owned by Cotswold Rail but painted in One livery, this locomotive was used extensively over the summer of 2004 to haul services between Norwich and London Liverpool Street which had been diverted from their usual electrified route because of engineering work at Ipswich.

For eight weeks in summer 2004 Ipswich tunnel was closed with One running two Norwich to Liverpool Street services via Cambridge with Cotswold Rail Class 47s.


see also

Marjorie Sherlock

Her painting Liverpool Street Station, now in the Government Art Collection, was first shown at the Royal Academy in 1917 and in 1987 was at 10 Downing Street when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The Continental

Hook Continental, a passenger train running between London's Liverpool Street Station and Harwich Parkestone Quay