How does Statue of Robert Stephenson elucidate its Installation at Euston station?
The Institute of Civil Engineers presented the statue of Stephenson to the London and North Western Railway, which from 1846 brought together the London and Birmingham Railway, the Grand Junction Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, all of which had engaged Stephenson or his father George Stephenson.  Euston was the railway's London terminus, and an 1852 marble statue of George Stephenson by Edward Hodges Baily was already displayed within the main hall of the station (it is now at the National Railway Museum, York).  Similar to Marochetti's statue of Robert Stephenson, Baily's statue of his father also shows the subject standing in contemporary dress, holding an partially unrolled document the right hand.
The statue of Robert Stephenson was erected on a red granite pedestal outside Euston railway station in 1871, originally sited between the entrance lodges to the station precincts.  It was moved to the east side of the station when it was redeveloped in the 1960s, and moved again in 2008 when further redevelopment was proposed to stand to the west side of the station forecourt.    The statue is one of few surviving elements of the original station after it was redeveloped in the 1960s, and it was listed at Grade II in 1974.The statue was removed in 2020 to allow further redevelopment works, remodelling the station for the new HS2 railway line to Birmingham.
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