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Graeme Wall

On 29/09/2011 09:50, d wrote:
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:41:26 +0100
Graeme wrote:
On 28/09/2011 23:39, The Real Doctor wrote:
On 28/09/11 22:37, Arthur Figgis wrote:
London (in some kind of "not the square mile" sense) was the biggest
city in the world by population some decades before the Underground
appeared.

Which important bit of historic London does the historic Underground
system serve worst? In fact barely at all? Why, that would be docklands.
Odd, that.

Not really, the docks handled freight and had their own network of
railways for that purpose.

And AFAIK the DLR reuses one of the routes of those lines on its way from
poplar to straford and also the old viaducts going towards the city.
I think. Someone correct me if I'm wrong?

The original DLR used the infrastructure of the following railways:

London & Blackwall railway, opened 1840 for passengers between the City
and the Docks. Cabled hauled initially up till 1849

East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway, later the North
London railway, opened 1846

Millwall Extension Railway opened 1871. In the last few years of it's
life it operated with 3 ex-GWR railmotors.

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Graeme Wall
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