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Liverpool Street EC2 houses one of the busiest stations in the United Kingdom. The station was build in 1865 and 30 years later it was expanded to accommodate more platforms, shops, and offices. During World War II, the station was used as a shelter despite the fact that it wasn’t intended for this purpose.
The station was featured in many movies and commercials. It’s also one of the railway stations from the British version of the board game Monopoly.
The station was opened by Great Eastern Railway in 1874 as a replacement for Bishopsgate station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London when the increase in passenger numbers became critical.
Liverpool Street Station was the GER’s main London terminus since that time and still remains the busiest railway station in London and the third-busiest in the United Kingdom.
Earlier, Liverpool Street Station served as a gate for foreign children running from the war. In 1938 and 1939 the station met ten thousand Jewish children from Germany and Austria, also known as refugees.
Sculptor Frank Meisler memorialized this historic moment in the statue of children located at the Liverpool Street entrance to the station, which is officially called Kindertransport: The Arrival.
You can also find long stonework carvings under the railway arches regarding Great Eastern Railway plaque. It was originally salvaged from Harwich House after it had been demolished in the 1980s in order to make way for an extension to Liverpool Street Station.
Finally, we’d like to tell you that the beauty and charms of Leadenhall were filmed in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as Diagon Alley.