On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Mr Thant wrote:

On 31 Mar, 13:55, Abigail Brady wrote:
I'm not even sure there would have been an ELLX project in this case.

The previous extension proposal to Cambridge Heath might have happened
instead.

(which would also allow the route across Bishopsgate Goods Yard to be
used to divert some Liverpool Street trains to Broad Street)

What was this proposal? All i can find is a bit on the CULG page for
the ELL, where Clive sayeth:

At Spitalfields a branch turned off into extensive sidings underneath the
corresponding GER coal depot (and with a vertical hoist linking them);
there were plans to tunnel to meet the GER line at Cambridge Heath, but
these never came to fruition and the tunnel dead-ended only 350m from the
junction.

But that doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me. I don't see how any
branch going to Spitalfields could have anything to do with Cambridge
Heath.

tom

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