In article , aooy65
@dsl.pipex.com says...
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
Line was nowhere near as popular then as it is now and I doubt there was
any expansionist appetite anywhere in BR. Again while Liverpool Street
was busy commuting was not at the levels seen in recent years.

Looking at the photos on Boltar's link does anyone know where the war
memorial went to? I think I only used Broad Street a handful of times
despite walking past it many times when I was at City Poly on Moorgate.


Don't know where the memorial went, sadly don't even remember it.

I would like to know however what became of a model locomotive in a
glass case, the coupling rods of which moved once a penny was inserted
into a slot. I assume this benefited a railway charity. It was a 4-4-0
tank engine.

As a young person I was always fascinated by the Richmond trains with
their barred windows so that decapitations didn't occur in the tunnel at
Hampstead Heath.