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The memorial comprises an obelisk mounted on walls screening three sides of a shallow, stepped, podium on which stands the Stone of Remembrance. The screen walls terminate in urn finials, laurel swags and wreaths. The pedestal to the obelisk is carved in relief with a laurel wreath enclosing the armorial shields of the North Eastern Railway Company. The screen wall has a central dedication panel draped in carved laurel garlands flanked by panels bearing the incised names of 2,236 men of the North Eastern Railway Company who lost their lives in the First World War. In 1984, 15 slate panels engraved with the 551 names of those lost in the Second World War were set in the raised pavement behind the stone of remembrance. Due to erosion of the original inscriptions, the names of those lost in the First World War have been replicated on bronze plaques mounted on the side of the memorial.

Title

North Eastern Railway War Memorial

Date

1924

Medium

Portland stone, stone & bronze

Measurements

H 900 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

YO1_RD_S003

Acquisition method

commissioned by North Eastern Railway Board

Work type

War memorial

Owner

Historic England

Custodian

Historic England

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II* (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

14th June 1924

Listing date

10/09/70

Access

at all times

Inscription description

on the front of the stone of remembrance: THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE: on the reverse of the stone is a bronze plaque with the inscription: THIS MEMORIAL WAS DESIGNED IN 1921 BY THE RENOWNED / ENGLISH ARCHITECT, SIR EDWIN LUTYENS, AND BUILT IN 1923. / IT COMMEMORATES THE 2,236 EMPLOYEES OF THE NORTH / EASTERN RAILWAY WHO WERE KILLED IN THE 1914–1918 WAR. / THE ADDITIONAL MEMORIAL, WHICH COMMEMORATES THE 551 / FALLEN IN THE 1939–1945 WAR, WAS UNVEILED IN 1984, / FOLLOWING AN APPEAL LAUNCHED ON THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY / OF THE ORIGINAL UNVEILING. / THE NAMES OF ALL THE FALLEN ARE RECORDED IN A BOOK OF / REMEMBERANCE WHICH CAN BE INSPECTED, DURING NORMAL / OFFICE HOURS, AT THE NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM; at the base of the obelisk another inscription reads: IN ABIDING / REMEBERANCE / OF THE 2236 MEN / OF / THE NORTHEASTERN / RAILWAY / WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR / THE COMPANY / PLACES / THIS MONUMENT; on the front face of the left screen wall: THE NAMES OF THE / FALLEN IN THE WARS / 1914–1918 AND 1939–1945 / ARE RECORDED IN / BOOKS OF REMEMBERANCE / ENSHRINED IN / THE NATIONAL / RAILWAY MUSEUM

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