On 01/03/2012 21:25, Mark Brader wrote:
Mark Brader:
The Widened Lines... none of the books I checked
mention whether mixed-gauge track was installed; as you imply, it
would not have been needed.

Peter Masson:
H P White (Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol 3, Greater
London) states that mixed gauge was provided at first...


In Charles E Lee's The Metropolitan Line there is a photo dated Mar 1866
showing the widened lines in use at Farringdon. The tracks in
foreground are laid with mixed gauge track.
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