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Charles Ellson[_2_]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:43:06 +0000, Graeme Wall
wrote:

On 27/03/2015 09:27, d wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:04:06 +0000
Charles Ellson wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 09:28:23 +0000 (UTC),
d wrote:
Pffft. You ever travelled by bus in london in the rush hour? Might as well
walk.

If it was the rush hour, I'd probably use a train instead to get to a
Thameslink station.

And if they hadn't ripped up the track west of Mill Hill East you could
have done.

Actually apart from a couple of small houses which could easily be compulsory
purchased the trackbed is clear all the way to Copthall and a bit beyond.
If LU ever has any spare cash lying around they could do worse than re-extend
back there since its a large housing area plus a sports stadium.

Isn't that the section cut by the construction of the M1 or am I
thinking of the wrong branch?

Much of the remaining (i.e. not prevented by the Green Belt) potential
traffic that existed in the 1930s will have been taken away by Oyster,
Thameslink etc. Boring through the foundations of the M1 now probably
requires a serious reason to provide a second route to/from Edgware
station.