Easter Road
Easter Road is a football stadium located in the Leith area of Edinburgh, Scotland, which is the home ground of Scottish Premiership club Hibernian (Hibs). The stadium currently has an all-seated capacity of , which makes it the…
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The Prince of Wales Bridge (Pont Tywysog Cymru), previously the Second Severn Crossing (Ail Groesfan Hafren) until July 2018, is the M4 motorway bridge over the River Severn between England and Wales, opened in 1996 to supplement the…
Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash
The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a three-train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone, Middlesex (now Greater London) during the morning rush hour of 8 October 1952. The crash resulted in 112 deaths and 340…
Port Dundas
Port Dundas is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, located 1 mi to the north of the city centre. It lies to the north of Cowcaddens, and to the west of Sighthill, with Hamiltonhill and Possilpark to the north-west.
Embankment tube station
Embankment is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster, known by various names during its history. It is served by four lines: Bakerloo, Circle, District and Northern. On the Bakerloo line and the Charing Cross branch of the…
Principality of Sealand
The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognised micronation on HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower), an offshore platform in the North Sea. It is situated on Rough Sands, a sandbar located approximately 11 km from the coast of…
Fazl Mosque, London
The Fazl Mosque (English: The Grace Mosque) also known as The London Mosque, is the first purpose-built mosque in London, England. It was opened on 3 October 1926 in Southfields, Wandsworth. At a cost of £6,223, the construction of the…
Manston Airport
Manston Airport is a closed international airport in England. Originally operated as RAF Manston, from 1916, it has also operated as a commercial airport and was known as Kent International Airport and, briefly, London Manston Airport. It…
Ffestiniog Railway
The Ffestiniog Railway (Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a heritage railway based on narrow-gauge, in Gwynedd, Wales. It is a major tourist attraction located mainly within the Snowdonia National Park.
London Post Office Railway
The Post Office Railway, known since 1987 as Mail Rail, is a narrow-gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to transport…
London Southend Airport
London Southend Airport is an international airport situated on the outskirts of Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England, approximately 36 mi from the centre of London. The airport straddles the boundaries between the city of Southend-on-Sea and…
Aldgate East tube station
Aldgate East is a London Underground station located on Whitechapel High Street in the Whitechapel neighbourhood of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London. It is on the District and Hammersmith & City lines, between Whitechapel…
