Rupert Candy wrote:
Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

For that matter why didn't they just retain the Holborn Viaduct name - it
can't have been because they thought passengers might confuse the station
with a Central Line tube could it?!

Possibly because the Ludgate Hill end opened some time *before* the
Holborn Viaduct end - and anyone who's walked the length of those
platforms in a hurry knows how far apart the two are...


And Holborn Viaduct was a name from the past - this was a new station
and thus needed a brand-new name.

Perhaps one of the reasons the even newer name "City Thamelink" won the
day, after "St. Pauls Thameslink" was found to be confusing and
ditched, was to flatter the Corporation of London (i.e. the City of
London local government) who had in part funded it.

Also this flattery might have served Network South-East's purposes even
further - the Corporation of London was also part funding the new 1992
rolling stock for the Waterloo & City line (which was under BR/NSE
ownership until 1994).