On Oct 8, 9:54 pm, Abigail Brady wrote:
I was pondering a map the other day, and I noted quite how close
Moorgate and Cannon Street are. I guess the city widened lines to
Moorgate are a lost cause due to the planned work at Farringdon, but I
wondered whether it has ever been suggested to extend the Northern
City Line south of Moorgate and link up with the line at Cannon
Street, making Cannon Street into a through station. This would
allow, say, the extension of Northern City Line services to London
Bridge and points onward (possibly as part of the Thameslink network?)

Has this ever been suggested? Are they any especial difficulties
apart from the sheer cost of tunnelling in EC2. (Bank of England
vaults?, I can also imagine the gradient being a problem)?

In these days of terrorist threats and flooding from global warming
etc. does the Governor of the Bank of England need to go down to the
vaults every day to count the reserves? Why not move the reserves out
of London to say Skelmersdale or Pontefract thereby freeing up via
routes for London's commuters - by unkinking (or should that be
dekinking the Central Line) or allowing the Drain to be developed as a
cheaper Chelsea Hackney variant.