On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Mizter T wrote:

On Jun 18, 7:38*am, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Jun 17, 4:47*pm, "Dr. Sunil" wrote:

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

There was a short article in Modern Railways recently that suggested
conversion of the alignment to use as sidings for LUL so that S Stock
can be stabled there.

Which is, I think, the 'obvious' suggestion that lots of people (inc.
moi!) have come up with in the past when this issue has been discussed.

Surely the *obvious* use is to reroute the Met and friends over one of the
liberated pairs, so you have two tracks in each direction, and then use
the paired tracks to run double-width gigantotrains as a shuttle between
Farringdon and Moorgate.

But after that, yes, using the track as sidings is pretty obvious.

tom

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