On Dec 15, 11:13*pm, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2010\12\15 23:07, Peter Masson wrote:



"Stephen Furley" wrote

The redevelopment didn't reduce the capacity of the station,
it just eliminated the very wide and unneeded cab road. Why was it
built that wide in the first place?

Most London termini used to have a cab road alongside or between the
arrival platform(s), where cabs used to line up - and they had tom be
wide enough so that the locos wouldn't frighten the horses.

The last station where the cabs did line up along the cab road was
Paddington (between platforms 8 and 9 - and at one time there was
another cab road between 10 and 11).

Cabs still line up alongside the platform at Liverpool Street.

Glad to hear it. I cannot fault the reconstruction of Liverpool
Street Station. Would that our architects had taken the same care
with our other termini.