A war memorial to commemorate the North London railwaymen who fell during the Great War 1914 – 1918 has at last found its own final resting place.
The monolith with 64 names on it has been installed outside the new London Overground Hoxton Station and will be rededicated on Tuesday 7 June by Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy and the Reverend James Westcott of St Chad’s church.
Ian Brown, the former Managing Director of London Rail at Transport for London and also a member of the Railway Heritage Committee was instrumental in finding a home for memorial.
He said: “Without doubt it is important that memorials such as these which commemorate the ultimate sacrifice of railwaymen in the past are looked after and preserved for the future. It’s also important that they are sited in places which make them part of the everyday lives of this generation and those to come.”
Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy who was also at the re-dedication service, said:
“It is fitting that TfL has found a public site for this memorial that is both easily accessible and marks the working life that these men left behind when they marched off to war almost 100 years ago.
The memorial was originally installed at the former Broad Street station on 10 February 1921. When that was demolished, the memorial was put in temporary storage at Richmond Station, south west London in 1989.
