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[email protected] · November 9th 14, 05:08 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (D A Stocks)
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On 08.11.14 15:46, Recliner wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:27:51 on Sat, 8
Nov 2014, Clive Page remarked:
remains of all the stuff under Smithfield, City Thameslink with an
absolutely perfect 90s look (you can almost feel the shoulder pads)
including a blanked-off door that should have gone to the Jubilee
line,

Where is that then? And I didn't know that the Jubilee Line went
near enough.

I presume this would have been on the branch which was built as far as
Charing Cross, whose JLE station is used now mainly as a film set.

Actually, the abandoned Jubilee Line Charing Cross station isn't on the
JLE. It's on the old Fleet Line alignment.

Why did they close the station? Would it not have been better to
terminate and turn some trains there, while letting others continue
on to Stratford?

AIUI the cost of having to replace the (by then) life-expired
escalators was a significant factor. If you take out the NR
interchange passengers (who could use Waterloo or London Bridge
instead) what was left, and would it justify retaining the station?

Escalators life-expired after 20 years? Wow!

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Colin Rosenstiel