On 01/03/2012 22:50, Peter Masson wrote:


"Graeme Wall" wrote

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.

At that date the Widened Lines only ran from Farringdon to Aldersgate
(Barbican) They were extended to Moorgate on 1 Jyly 1866, and westward
to Kings Cross early in 1868. The Snow Hill link from Farringdon to
Ludgate Hill opened at the beginning of 1866, and the third side of the
triangle from Snow Hill to Aldersgate came into use in September 1871.
Broad Gauge GWR trains ran to Moorgate until 14 March 1869, but it is
unclear whether they used the original Met lines, crossed to the Widened
Lines at Farringdon, or even crossed to the Widened Lines at Kings Cross
(from early 1868) - if there was actually a connection from the Met to
the Widened Lines at Kings Cross.


Unfortunately Lee doesn't go into any detail on that subject. Hardly
surprising as it was one of LTs 25p booklets!


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Graeme Wall
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