Fenchurch Street railway station is a central London railway terminus in the southeastern corner of the City of London. The station opened in 1841 to serve the London and Blackwall Railway (L&BR) and was rebuilt in 1854 when the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, a joint venture between the L&BR and the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR), began operating.
Fenchurch Street is one of the smallest railway terminals in London in terms of platforms, but one of the most intensively operated. It is the only London terminal with no direct interchange with the London Underground. The area around Fenchurch Street is one of the oldest inhabited parts of London; the name "Fenchurch" derives from the Latin faenum (hay) and refers to hay markets in the area.
The poet John Betjeman passed through the station on day-trips to Southend, and described it as a "delightful hidden old terminus".
The first documented murder on the British rail network occurred on 9 July 1864, when Franz Muller murdered Thomas Briggs shortly after a train left the station en route to Chalk Farm.
Fenchurch Street is one of four railway stations on the standard UK Monopoly board, alongside Liverpool Street, Marylebone and King's Cross.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenchurch_Street_railway_station
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