Last week difficulties on the railway line found me spending rather a lot of time at Gerrards Cross station, where I spotted the chap pictured here. A bit of research told me that it was a statue commissioned in the 1980s to commemorate the “Unknown Navvy” – it stands for all the people, particularly men, …
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History and HS2
This short video compares the reaction to the proposed new HS2 railway line with the way the very first London and Birmingham Railway was received.