The Anonymous Widower

Where’s The Plaque Gone?

Although, I can’t ever remember seeing it, it may have cropped up in conversations at home.

But I’ve finally found proof on this page of the British Listed Buildings web site, that there was a plaque at Oakwood station, indicating that the first land you’d hit if you travelled east was the Urals. This is the paragraph from the web site.

The booking hall originally had a plaque claiming that the station occupied ‘the highest point in Europe in a direct line west of the Ural Mountains of Russia’, a reference to the site being 300 feet above sea level.

I would like to see the plaque restored.

February 6, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | London Underground, Oakwood, Russia