Westminster Bridge
Westminster Bridge is a road-and-foot-traffic bridge crossing over the River Thames in London, linking Westminster on the west side and Lambeth on the east side.
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The Glasgow Subway (Fo-rèile Ghlaschu) is an underground light metro system in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened on 14 December 1896, it is the third-oldest underground metro system in the world; after the Metropolitan Railway in London (1863) and…
Turnham Green tube station
Turnham Green is a London Underground station in Chiswick of the London Borough of Hounslow in west London. It is served by the District and Piccadilly lines in a manner of cross-platform interchange, although Piccadilly line trains…
Angel tube station
Angel is a London Underground station, located in the Angel area of the London Borough of Islington. It is on the Bank branch of the Northern line, between and stations. The station is in London fare zone 1. It was originally built by the…
London Marathon
The London Marathon is an annual marathon held in London, England. Founded by athletes Chris Brasher and John Disley in 1981, it is typically held in April, although it moved to October for 2020, 2021, and 2022 due to the COVID-19…
King's Cross fire
The King's Cross fire occurred in 1987 at King's Cross St Pancras tube station in London, England, causing 31 fatalities. It began under a wooden escalator before spreading into the ticket hall in a flashover.
Elland Road
Elland Road, or Elland Road Stadium, is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919. With a capacity of 37,633, the stadium is the 14th largest…
Talyllyn Railway
The Talyllyn Railway (Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow-gauge railway in Wales, which runs for 7+1/4 mi from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn. Opened in 1865 to carry slate from the quarries at…
Teesside International Airport
Teesside International Airport , formerly Durham Tees Valley Airport, is a small international airport in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. It primarily serves Teesside (including Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees),…
Surrey Iron Railway
The Surrey Iron Railway (SIR) was a horse-drawn narrow-gauge plateway that linked Wandsworth and Croydon via Mitcham, all then in Surrey but now suburbs of south London, in England. It was established by an act of Parliament in 1801, and…
Clapham Junction railway station
Clapham Junction is a major railway station near St John's Hill in south-west Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It lies 2 mi from and 3 mi from . Despite its name, Clapham Junction is not in Clapham, a district 1 mi…
2011 UEFA Champions League final
The 2011 UEFA Champions League final was an association football match played on 28 May 2011 at Wembley Stadium in London that decided the winner of the 2010–11 season of the UEFA Champions League. The winners received the European…
