On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:41:05 +0100, "Peter Masson"
wrote:



"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote

I thought the Cross Town LinkLine connecting Camden Road to North Woolwich
opened in 1979, before Livingstone was running the GLC?
Indeed. Initially it was a dmu operation between North Woolwich and Camden
Road, with no intermediate stations between Stratford and Canonbury. At
first off-peak trains at least were very lightly loaded - on one occasion,
when I was the only passenger in the front coach (of 2), the driver invited
me into the cab.


Possibly the same driver who gave me a cab ride? I had only been working
for BR for a few weeks and this was one of the first rides I took with
my priv pass. ISTR the driver was very keen that the new service should
be a success - which, eventually, it was.


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Bill Hayles

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