Qualla: Liverpool Street station https://qualla.com/liverpool-street-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/liverpool-street-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Liverpool Street station https://qualla.com/liverpool-street-station Liverpool Street station: Introduction https://qualla.com/liverpool-street-station/ Photo credit Doyle of London, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the platforms at Liverpool Street, a small bronze sculpture shows a girl with a battered suitcase. Her name is not given because the children who arrived here on the Kindertransport in 1938 and 1939 numbered in the thousands, each one a single child sent west by parents who, in most cases, would never see them again. Around 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish children passed through this station between December 1938 and the outbreak of war in September 1939, brought from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to escape the Nazi regime. Nicholas Winton, who organised much of the rescue from Prague, unveiled the original memorial here in 2003. The sculpture is small. The history it carries is not.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/liverpool-street-station-wp/gcpv-liverpool-street-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Liverpool Street station: The White Elephant That Wasn't https://qualla.com/liverpool-street-station/ Photo credit Public domain. When Liverpool Street opened on 1 November 1875, critics called it an expensive white elephant — over £2 million spent (a colossal sum) by the Great Eastern Railway to replace its inadequate Shoreditch terminus at Bishopsgate. The criticism lasted about a decade. By 1885 the stat...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/liverpool-street-station-wp/gcpv-liverpool-street-station-the-white-elephant-that-wasnt.mp3 0:06 2 full Liverpool Street station: The First Air Raid https://qualla.com/liverpool-street-station/ Photo credit The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 13 June 1917, twenty German Gotha G.IV bombers flew over London in daylight. It was Operation Türkenkreuz — the first biplane air raid on London, the deadliest single raid Britain suffered during the First World War. Seven tons of bombs fell across the capital; 162 people died...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/liverpool-street-station-wp/gcpv-liverpool-street-station-the-first-air-raid.mp3 0:06 3 full Liverpool Street station: The Jazz Service https://qualla.com/liverpool-street-station/ Photo credit Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0. By 1920, Liverpool Street was at capacity and the company couldn't afford to electrify. So engineers tried something else: automatic signalling, redesigned track layouts, locomotives serviced right at the platforms to cut turnaround times. The scheme cost £80,000, compared to an ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/liverpool-street-station-wp/gcpv-liverpool-street-station-the-jazz-service.mp3 0:06 4 full Liverpool Street station: Bombs Across the Decades https://qualla.com/liverpool-street-station/ Photo credit TheFrog001, CC0. The station bore witness to terror across three eras. During the Blitz of 1940 and 1941, both German bombs and the underground tube platforms made for one of the East End's principal shelters; on 7 September 1940, during heavy raids, local people either forced entry or were quiet...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/liverpool-street-station-wp/gcpv-liverpool-street-station-bombs-across-the-decades.mp3 0:06 5 full Liverpool Street station: The Bedlam Burial Ground https://qualla.com/liverpool-street-station/ Photo credit Carcharoth (Commons), CC BY-SA 3.0. In 2013, Crossrail diggers excavating for the new Elizabeth line tunnels broke through into something nobody had been quite expecting. A few feet below the surface lay a two-acre burial ground from the 17th century — the New Churchyard, known historically as the Bedlam burial gro...

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