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Old April 1st 09, 10:38 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Broad Street station


On Apr 1, 10:23*am, (Neil Williams)
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On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:18:10 +0000 (UTC), wrote:
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.


Running it into Liverpool St made more sense, as they indeed did,
though this didn't for whatever reasons prove successful.


Running via Hackney and the Graham Road curve added time and distance
to the journey. Additionally by the sounds of it BR weren't very keen
to make this service successful.