On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:50:30 +0100
Paul Corfield wrote:


On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:07:25 +0100, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

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?

Doubtful - it was far too big for the traffic using it. The North London

Certainly seems underused. Though what surprises me is they closed the whole
branch. I don't see why they didn't keep perhaps a single platform low cost
low maintenance station a few hundred metres back up the line after the main
station had been demolished to make way for Broadgate.

B2003