Great Central Railway Goods Yard

Photo:Exterior view of the Great Central Railway Goods Dept Office, Lisson Grove, with Portman Buildings in the background.

Exterior view of the Great Central Railway Goods Dept Office, Lisson Grove, with Portman Buildings in the background.

City of Westminster Archives

Photo:View of the entrance to the Great Central Railway Depot, Lisson Grove 1900

View of the entrance to the Great Central Railway Depot, Lisson Grove 1900

City of Westminster Archives

Photo:View of the coal yard at the Great Central Railway Depot, Lisson Grove October 1952

View of the coal yard at the Great Central Railway Depot, Lisson Grove October 1952

Photograph by Mrs G M Ahern

By Georgina Colbeck

This page was added on 03/07/2012.
Comments about this page

My grandfather worked at Marylebone Station, having joined the railway aged 14 or 15. Having moved up from Buckinghanshire he worked there all his life. He was a checker and I think my dad worked there briefly too.

By Gillian Waters
On 15/09/2012

I was born at 165 Lisson Grove in 1947 but that house along with the adjoining ones were demolished to make way for a new block of flats in the 1950s. We backed on to the coal yard. We stayed in the area but I had no idea Lisson Grove had such a bad reputation in the 19th century.

By Valerie Jean Fletcher
On 09/10/2012

my dad Frank Watkins worked there during the 30s/40s. I left school at Bell Street and walked up there to park road and worked in a hairdressing salon called Figero's.

By rita patching [ nee watkins ]
On 04/03/2014

I lived in Scott Ellis Gardens and went to Gateforth Street School so on my way home each day I passed the door that led to the coal yard. I always hoped it would be unlocked so I could go down the stairs and play on the coal heaps.

By Paul Glover
On 17/01/2015

I remember that door and the view of the goods yard from the Lisson Grove bridge.

By Derek Harris
On 09/11/2016
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