In message , Paul Terry
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In message , Ian Jelf
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Wasn't it Charing Cross that Abercrombie wanted to abolish?
According to the map of the proposals, the line from London Bridge to
Charing Cross would have gone, along with the Thames bridges into
Cannon Street, Blackfriars and Charing Cross. However, all three would
have survived as deep-level through stations on the southern loop.
(I can't see any sign in the plan of Waterloo being demolished.)
Engineering works in the Dining Rooms have been completed ahead of
schedule and I can confirm that Charing Cross (and indeed Cannon Street
and Blackfriars) would have gone. The report has a strange fascination
or obsession with removing Thames railway bridges but adding a new
Charing Cross Road Bridge.
I hadn't really considered them being "replaced" by underground
equivalents, looking at the deep level railway tubes as being London
Underground rather than a form of Crossrail (or S-Bahn, if you see what
I mean) but that does seem to be the case.
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Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK
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