London Banter - View Single Post - "Miles of rail line could be re-opened "

[email protected] · March 18th 12, 03:32 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 15:44:53 on Sun, 18
Mar 2012, " remarked:
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.

So, what you are saying in essence is that the old York Road station is
really just a hole in the ground? I suppose.

Most tube stations started off with lift shafts only (think Covent
Garden, Aldwych...) and while many have been upgraded (eg Angel) over
the years, it seems quite likely that if a station such as York Rd
was going to be re-opened that it might be regarded as sensible to
install escalators instead.

Which has the collateral impact that the station building itself will
have to be moved (once again, see Angel).

Or not as in Caledonian Road and Holloway Road. What happened at Mornington
Crescent? That still has lifts, doesn't it?

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Colin Rosenstiel