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Paul Scott · March 31st 09, 12:07 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
Nick Catford seems to have added a shed load more photos of broad
street as was. Quite interesting not just for the railway itself but
because you can see the slow change in the City as the towers go up
during the 70s.

If Broad street was still open today would it be a useful way of
relieving passenger and train congestion on other lines and termini?
I assume when it was demonlished it wasn't serving much useful
purpose but then back then the city had less people working in it.
Would they be able to get away with demolishing it today?

It would have been an interesting problem for the current ELL rebuilding
project at the very least, if the Kingsland viaduct route had still been
operational under Silverlink Metro, and let's assume it had four trains per
hour on its 2 tracks. So Stratford would probably have had less NLL services
due to the overall capacity Camden - Dalston Junction.

How might the LO & ELL changes have panned out then. Would the ELLX project
still have connected into the Kingsland viaduct and run round to Highbury,
after all it's four tracks wide, or just run up to terminate and interchange
at Dalston.

Or would ELL be as built, but with Broad St as another branch terminus, so
less trains cross the river...

Paul S