Word: euston
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...father's intense annoyance, Elizabeth's name has been linked in gossip columns with two genealogically suitable young Britons. They are Hugh Denis Charles Fitzroy, Earl of Euston. and Charles John Robert Manners. Duke of Rutland. Both are 25, Etonians. Cambridge men, junior officers in the Grenadier Guards (Elizabeth is their Colonel...
...Much of London's jumbled railroad system would be moved out to a ring line encircling the city. Within the ring all railroad lines would be electrified and underground. Liverpool Street, Waterloo and London Bridge stations would be moved to the ring. Euston, King's Cross, St. Pancras stations would be amalgamated. Victoria, Paddington, Marylebone would remain where they...
...were badly delayed by subways which had been damaged or which lay near unexploded time bombs. Post offices shut down during raids. Let ters took three days to get across London, five to reach the country; and telegrams were almost as bad. Long-distance tele phoning was practically impossible. Euston, Victoria and Waterloo railway sta tions were badly damaged; the Victoria train shed, a massive thing of girder and glass, was crushed across tracks...
...playing as the crowd wished to stay and I don't expect more than half a dozen people have left." From Hammersmith's the program jumped to Piccadilly Circus, where Vincent Sheean spoke briefly of the silent streets. Following interviews with trainmen by BBC men in Euston Station, the program wound up with J. B. Priestley...
What happened to general transportation was far worse. The "Irish Mail" from Holyhead was announced as "still on its way" 24 hours after the train was due at Waterloo Station. LONDON TRAINS MISSING, SCOTTISH TRAINS LOST screamed newspaper headlines. At Euston Station three trains from the north failed to turn up for more than a day. Two main lines to Scotland did not function for days. Viscount Home, chairman of Great Westtern Railway, and 300 other passengers spent two days and a night in cold, bedless coaches. Up in Scotland 400 travelers were stranded at isolated Crawford, on Beattock Moor...