London – Camden (Borough of) – King’s Cross Railway Station – Nigel Gresley Statue

The rather beautiful extension to King’s Cross railway station, which opened in 2012 as part of a refurbishment of the building.

The statue of Nigel Gresley, which was unveiled here on 5 April 2016, to mark the 75th anniversary of his death. There was quite an argument, which led to resignations from the Trust behind the statue, when grandsons of Gresley wanted the duck figure removed from the statue as they thought it was demeaning. Perhaps there are better things to worry about, but the end result was to remove the duck. I think I’d have left it as it might have encouraged more children to meander over to see what it was and they might then want to know what Gresley did.

And there’s information about the engineering career which Gresley had, namely the Mallard and the Flying Scotsman.

NB, as an aside, my friend Nathan grumbled that I didn’t link this post to the Nigel Gresley pub we visited in Swadlincote a few weeks ago. He was right to be fair, it is an omission of mine…