On 17 June, 10:43, Ivor The Engine wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:45:03 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T



wrote:
This is well worth a gander - ten minutes of various scenes of old,
not just trains but lots of station scenes and a few street scenes
too.

The KX porters with the trolleys of passenger luggage is one of many
notable things. Reassuring to see that the front of KX station still
looked like a building site back then - but actually I don't think the
motley collection of buildings (best seen at 6:57) had anything to do
with construction - had this rather unkempt mess just sort of
developed by default rather than design over the years?

What's the significance if any of the shot of the house and buildings
on that narrow plot of land at 5:10 - and also where exactly is that,
a junction off Pentonville Rd (with Kings Cross Road perhaps)? I can't
quite work out the lie of the land there.

Good find! * I'm only familiar with "modern" KX, didn't realise what a
mess it was before the current extension at the front.

All the shots of steam locos look very atmospheric but I'm not sure I
would have wanted to exit trains in a cloud of steam and soot every
morning! * What must it have been like for the engine crew in the
tunnels with the two trains leaving the station together (9:00)?

That plot of land looks a bit like the triangle between Pentonville Rd
and Grays Inn Rd (looking west-east) but could be Kings Cross Road as
you say - odd to find that 1930s house stuck in the middle! *

What's the long-term future of the Widened Line platforms at Moorgate
and Barbican. North of the tunnel north of Barbican, the track has
been lifted, and from Barbican southwards the overhead catenary has
been taken down.