The Quintinshill Rail Disaster Artwork (MISSING)

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Reference WMO/272491

Address:

Carlisle Railway Station

Court Square

behind Platform 8

Carlisle

CA1 1QX

England

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Status: Lost/missing
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Mosaic/Mural
Materials:
  • Other Other
Lettering: No lettering
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: An artwork composed of many sewn together train tickets each with an embroidered or drawn forget me not (the symbol of eternal memory). This was made for the centenary of the disaster on 22 May 2015, and was displayed at the Station for most of that year and into early 2016. It was latterly displayed in what is now, 2020, the station flower shop (then a vacant unit). It then disappeared, and it id not known where to, although it was said at the time it was intended as a permanent, rather than transient, memorial. It was made by Helen Walsh, Artist
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