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Old December 16th 07, 10:55 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport,uk.transport.london
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Default New DLR station opened today

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Peter Masson wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote

From H&I to Camden Road the NLL will have 4 tracks, the southern pair
westbound and the northern pair eastbound (though two tracks will have
reversible signalling, presumably to allow service to continue if one
pair is blocked for maintenance). Canonbury is shown as having three
platforms (no platform face on the northernmost line,


By 'Canonbury', do you mean 'Caledonian Road & Barnsbury'?


Yes. Sorry, I always get the two mixed up.


I blame whoever it was who picked the name 'Caledonian Road & Barnsbury'.
In fact, the NLL has (well, had) no fewer than four 'and' names -
Silvertown & London City Airport, Highbury & Islington, Caledonian Road &
Barnsbury, Finchley Road & Frognal. I suspect that someone in the company
had a cousin who was a signwriter, and charged by the letter!

tom

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