Great Western Railway War Memorial

The Great Western Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial by Charles Sargeant Jagger and Thomas S. Tait. It stands on platform 1 at , commemorating the 2,500 employees of the Great Western Railway who were killed in the conflict.
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: railway company war memorial in London, England
  • Also known as: “GWR War Memorial”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include London Paddington railway station and St Mary’s Hospital.

Railway station
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London Paddington is a main line and tube station complex on Praed Street, , London, which has been the main terminus for the Great Western Railway and successors since 1838.

Hospital
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St Mary's Hospital is a teaching hospital in , in the , London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first academic health science centre was created in 2008, it has been operated by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which also operates , , and the . is situated 920 feet east of Great Western Railway War Memorial.

Park
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is a 350-acre, historic Grade I-listed in , Greater London. A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from through and , via Corner and , past to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paddington-Maida Vale and Hallfield Estate.

Photo: Natesh Ramasamy, CC BY 2.0.
is a district of northwest central , around the vast Paddington Station of Paddington Bear fame. This inner London district is somewhat bereft of attractions but it does have a large range of budget and mid-priced accommodation.

Neighborhood
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The is one of several modernist housing projects in , , and was designed in the immediate postwar period by the Tecton architecture practice, led by Berthold Lubetkin.

Locality
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is an affluent residential district in North West London, England, around the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, the Regent's Canal, and the entrance to Paddington Basin.

Great Western Railway War Memorial

Latitude
51.51694° or 51° 31′ 1″ north
Longitude
-0.17822° or 0° 10′ 42″ west
Open location code
9C3XGR8C+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3242621432
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q5600211
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Korean—“Great Western Railway War Memorial” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “大西部铁路战争纪念碑”
  • Hungarian: “Great Western Railway háborús emlékmű”
  • Indonesian: “Great Western Railway War Memorial”
  • Japanese: “グレート・ウェスタン・レールウェイ戦争記念碑”
  • Korean: “GWR 전쟁 기념관”
  • Korean: “그레이트 웨스턴 철도 전쟁 기념관”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Paddington and Paddington Elizabeth Line Station.

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