On Mar 17, 9:44*pm, Stephen Furley wrote:

On Mar 17, 11:29*am, "
wrote:

What is the situation with the possible reopening of York Street, on the
Piccadilly?

The station was called York Road; I believe the road itself was also,
but was renamed York Street at some time.

York Way in fact - renamed in 1938, according to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Way


There was a suggestion some years ago that the station be re-opened,
but this is unlikely to happen for several reasons:

1. The predicted number of passengers using the station was low.

2. The station is close to King's Cross, and many of the passengers
who would use it if it were to re-open would be likely to be using
King's Cross at present, so there would be little net gain in revenue.

3. The re-opening would be very expensive; a great deal of work would
be needed to create a station to meet today's requirements. *Other
than the tunnels, and possibly the lift shafts it would basically be a
new station.

4. It would slow down the service on the line. * This was the reason
for the closure of a number of other stations both in London and
elsewhere, 19th Street on PATH in New York for example. *Early
underground railways did seem to have stations rather closely spaced
in some places.

There was a study done in connection with the King's Cross Central
development (though they've actually dropped the "Central" suffix now)
- see page 16 of this report about the development from LB Islington:
http://www.kxrlg.org.uk/news/LBIjan05KXCFORMALOBS.pdf

Interestingly it says "The findings indicate that potential passenger
demand would be of a similar level to that of Finsbury Park Station".
It also says that reopening of the station would be safeguarded by the
council.