On Feb 28, 1:16*pm, CJB wrote:
Just travelled out of Liverpoool Street Station on Saturday for the
first time for many years. What a great station that is. I wonder if
Paddington will so well restored? Anyway on leaving the initial
tunnels, on the far right hand side we saw a disused platform - I
guess this served the East London Line tube when it used to run into
Liverpool Street - and it is now used for the overhead catenary masts.
But then just a bit further on - under a series of arches - we noticed
a number of old stone carvings dumped behind a fence. They looked very
old, one looked as though it was the top of a church spire. What are/
were they and where did they come from? CJB.

IMHO The rebuilding of Liverpool St was the excellent. The result is
the finest of London Terminals. One would, that this had been used as
the rebuilding example for Paddington. Brunel's terminal should be
restored. However, the carbuncle on the suburban side should be
replaced in the same sympathetic manner as Liverpool Street. The
building over Liverpool St's suburban platforms brings income, but
fits its surroundings well.

E27002 wrote:

IMHO The rebuilding of Liverpool St was the excellent. The result is
the finest of London Terminals. One would, that this had been used as
the rebuilding example for Paddington. Brunel's terminal should be
restored. However, the carbuncle on the suburban side should be
replaced in the same sympathetic manner as Liverpool Street.

That's in progress right now (if you actually meant opening up and restoring
span 4 at Paddington)...

Paul

On Mar 1, 9:49*am, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
E27002 wrote:
IMHO The rebuilding of Liverpool St was the excellent. *The result is
the finest of London Terminals. *One would, that this had been used as
the rebuilding example for Paddington. *Brunel's terminal should be
restored. *However, the carbuncle on the suburban side should be
replaced in the same sympathetic manner as Liverpool Street.

That's in progress right now (if you actually meant opening up and restoring
span 4 at Paddington)...

Paul

No, I meant utterly removing any trace of Span 4.

E27002 wrote:
IMHO The rebuilding of Liverpool St was the excellent. The result is
Including replacing non-slip tarmac with terrazzo tiling which is lethally
slippery when wet?

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(E27002) wrote:

IMHO The rebuilding of Liverpool St was the excellent. The result is
the finest of London Terminals.

Up to a point, Lord Copper!

You should try using it with a bicycle, as we in Cambridge commonly used
to. The managed to replace a cycle friendly ramp down to the platforms by
steps *up* and an escalator and stairs down. Not exactly helpful or
considerate.

Ok, there is a ramp but it's a long way round and through a shopping mall
where cycling is not allowed. And no ramp at all from the Bishopsgate side.

Typical of the attitude of the railways at the time from the operators of
what was then the main terminal for trains to the UK city with most
cycling.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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On Feb 28, 1:16 pm, CJB wrote:
Just travelled out of Liverpoool Street Station on Saturday for the
first time for many years. What a great station that is. I wonder if
Paddington will so well restored? Anyway on leaving the initial
tunnels, on the far right hand side we saw a disused platform - I
guess this served the East London Line tube when it used to run into
Liverpool Street - and it is now used for the overhead catenary masts.
But then just a bit further on - under a series of arches - we noticed
a number of old stone carvings dumped behind a fence. They looked very
old, one looked as though it was the top of a church spire. What are/
were they and where did they come from? CJB.

IMHO The rebuilding of Liverpool St was the excellent. The result is
the finest of London Terminals. One would, that this had been used as
the rebuilding example for Paddington. Brunel's terminal should be
restored. However, the carbuncle on the suburban side should be
replaced in the same sympathetic manner as Liverpool Street. The
building over Liverpool St's suburban platforms brings income, but
fits its surroundings well.
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For a '60s train spotter, the old LS station was much more fun!

MaxB

On Mar 1, 7:35*pm, wrote:

(E27002) wrote:
IMHO The rebuilding of Liverpool St was the excellent. *The result is
the finest of London Terminals.

Up to a point, Lord Copper!

You should try using it with a bicycle, as we in Cambridge commonly used
to. The managed to replace a cycle friendly ramp down to the platforms by
steps *up* and an escalator and stairs down. Not exactly helpful or
considerate.

Ok, there is a ramp but it's a long way round and through a shopping mall
where cycling is not allowed. And no ramp at all from the Bishopsgate side.

There's the ramp up from the central roadway between platform 10 & 11
onto Primrose Street, which means you'd be ejected onto the quieter
streets behind the station rather than having to battle through the
crowds.

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,
(Mizter T) wrote:

On Mar 1, 7:35*pm, wrote:

(E27002) wrote:
IMHO The rebuilding of Liverpool St was the excellent. *The result
is the finest of London Terminals.

Up to a point, Lord Copper!

You should try using it with a bicycle, as we in Cambridge commonly
used to. The managed to replace a cycle friendly ramp down to the
platforms by steps *up* and an escalator and stairs down. Not exactly
helpful or considerate.

Ok, there is a ramp but it's a long way round and through a shopping
mall where cycling is not allowed. And no ramp at all from the
Bishopsgate side.

There's the ramp up from the central roadway between platform 10 & 11
onto Primrose Street, which means you'd be ejected onto the quieter
streets behind the station rather than having to battle through the
crowds.

That's even more out of the way if one wants to get to and from Bank, the
direction the old ramp came from!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 1 Mar, 20:20, Mizter T wrote:

There's the ramp up from the central roadway between platform 10 & 11
onto Primrose Street, which means you'd be ejected onto the quieter
streets behind the station rather than having to battle through the
crowds.

You'd end up in Norton Folgate!

On 2 Mar, 00:44, wrote:

There's the ramp up from the central roadway between platform 10 & 11

That's the on-ramp

That's even more out of the way if one wants to get to and from Bank, the
direction the old ramp came from!

That's the off-ramp