On 5 May, 10:40, wrote:
In article i,



(Tom Anderson) wrote:
At last!

Bit late to the party, i know, but i went on it. It was very new,
not very busy, the trains were very quiet, and Dalston Junction
station is HUGE.

Why is it so huge? And what are the plans for Shoreditch High
Street (or as i like to call it, Directly Opposite My Office On
Commercial Street) - will the views to the arches and pillars and
other quite nice old bits of railway architecture be maintained, or
is the surrounding area going to be turned into a tower block?

The stretch from Dalston to Shoreditch was oddly reminiscent of
being in New York; one of the elevated bits of ths subway (or the
Metro-North, perhaps) looking down over converted warehouses and so
on. The buildingscape is much more clean and cubic and less blobby
and random than the otherwise comparable stretch of the West Anglia
line from Hackney Downs to Bethnal Green.

Have you not been on the District West of Earl's Court? Quite a few
viaducts with elevated running. From Putney Bridge to East Putney is
probably most similar to what you describe, though that viaduct is
narrower, having always been only double track.

I was late for work because of the detour i took to go on it, so i
hope you all appreciate this report!

I've not yet got to go. Too busy with the election. Next week, hopefully!

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Colin Rosenstiel

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