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Tom Anderson · November 12th 06, 03:38 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 wrote:

There were also platforms on the West curve at Loughborough Junction,
and on the main line at Clapham and Wandsworth Rooad.

I don't understand what you mean by "on the main line at Clapham and
Wandsworth Road"; i'm probably being very dense here, but the Holborn
line doesn't go anywhere near either of those roads ...

Today services towards Blackfriers run via Herne Hihh, Denmark Hill or
London Bridge, but there's a fourth route to reach it, which now has no
normal passenger service. The Victoria - Moorgate Street service
departed from the Chatham station at Victoria, I think it served
Clapham and Wandsworth Road, there were certainly main line platforms
at those stations at one time, and then took the curve at the Western
side of Loughborourgh Junction.

Wow. Not entirely unlike the present 'south london line' service, only on
the Chatham lines (which are now essentially the fast pair there) rather
than the Atlantic lines.

There were platforms on this curve, though no trace of them can be seen
today. I think there were also platforms on this line at Brixton,
though these would have been very close to those at Loughborough
Junction, so I don't know if these trains served both.

AIUI, the East Brixton platforms were on the Atlantic lines, so presumably
wouldn't have been much use to this service, BICBW.

tom

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