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Tom Anderson wrote:

There's a long, thin nature reserve alongside the east side of the Great
Northern south of Seven Sisters Road, which i assume is former railway
land. I'm not sure what it's called, but you can see it he

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&hq...Kingdom&l l=5
1.562192,-0.106173&spn=0.002268,0.006791&t=k&z=17

This is Gillespie Park Nature Reserve and indeed parts are right by the
main line.

Another reserve where you can hear if not see Eurostar and other trains
is Camley Street Natural Park at Kings Cross. It was a coal yard and
it's also bordered by the Regent's canal.

The best place for trainspotting (and animals) I've found with the kids
is Kentish Town City Farm - it straddles the main line into Kings Cross,
and you can also see a branch that goes into a tunnel, and running
perpendicular at the back is the North London Line.

E.


Thanks, I'm not going mad then!

Last time I travelled to St Albans from St Pancras I was sure I spotted
some goats after passing through Kentish Town but thought I must have
imagined it.

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(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:19:52 -0600,
wrote:

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:19:03 -0600,
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In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

I was involved in getting the Capital Growth scheme on disused
land at Southwark Station up and running. An interesting diversion
from the day job!

Tangential to that, a row of shops was demolished to make way for
Southwark station. Why on earth was no commercial development
included in or around the finished station? Above the ground floor
it's totally wasted space there.

There have been plans for many years to proceed with development
above Southwark Station. The current state of the property and
financial markets have probably put paid to any progress for a
number of years.

Oh right. I thought they could have done that development long before
the recession hit. The JLE did open in 1999, after all.

Good grief Colin - nothing is ever right in your world is it?

It is down to the developers to come forward with schemes. It is not for
LUL to do them. Go and hunt down the property developers and ask them
why they have failed to stick a building on top of a station.

I'm not criticising, just surprised, given land values round there. I
would have thought development over the station would have been integral
with the original station plans. Or did that idea die with the London
Electric Railway?

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Colin Rosenstiel