{"id":42579,"date":"2025-08-04T05:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42579\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T05:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:49:12","slug":"liverpool-street-station-photo-exhibit-showcases-railway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42579\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Street station photo exhibit showcases railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/aed28ea0-6ec6-11f0-89ea-4d6f9851f623.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Network Rail Charlie Waite, wearing a shirt, waistcoat and jacket stands in front of a photo on display. Also next to the photo is Elizabeth Coles wearing a pink jumper and pink patterned trousers.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Network Rail<\/p>\n<p>Founder of Landscape Photographer of the Year, Charlie Waite, with photographer Elizabeth Coles and her featured photo<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A photography exhibition showcasing the railway has been launched at Liverpool Street station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Created in partnership with Landscape Photographer of the Year, the Lens on the Line exhibit features 17 images taken around the country. Also being showcased is a section on the history of Liverpool Street station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The photography exhibition was created as part of a nationwide celebration of 200 years of train travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Charlie Waite, founder of Landscape Photographer of the Year, said the display marked a &#8220;momentous railway anniversary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It is the first ever Landscape Photographer of the Year exhibition to be dedicated to the railway, with the photographs having been selected from previous years of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Kate Snowden, from Network Rail Anglia, said the photos gave &#8220;remarkable new perspectives on railway scenes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e37c4ec0-6ec6-11f0-af20-030418be2ca5.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Network Rail Lady Linda Reich in a dark coloured top standing in front of a display board about the history of the Kindertransport.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Network Rail<\/p>\n<p>Lady Linda Reich said the section on the Kindertransport rescue gave passengers a chance to learn about the station&#8217;s role in the mission<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The history section explores the station&#8217;s past, including its role in the Kindertransport rescue mission between 1938 and 1939.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Lady Linda Reich, whose late husband Sir Erich Reich is depicted as a little boy in the Kindertransport memorial, said: &#8220;The history exhibition is fascinating, and it includes a section on the Kindertransport mission, which rescued Erich from Nazi Europe aged four and brought him to this country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Liverpool Street station was the last stop on a long journey to safety for almost all the nearly 10,000 children who like him came on the Kindertransport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;I&#8217;m glad that passengers have the chance to discover such a remarkable chapter of their station&#8217;s history.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Network Rail Founder of Landscape Photographer of the Year, Charlie Waite, with photographer Elizabeth Coles and her featured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-42579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}