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D7666 wrote:
This one been mentioned yet ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LnDhMy-axw


Open air Moorgate, and kettle freights passing Farringdon, and never
mind the music.

This is well worth a gander - ten minutes of various scenes of old,
not just trains but lots of station scenes and a few street scenes
too.

The KX porters with the trolleys of passenger luggage is one of many
notable things. Reassuring to see that the front of KX station still
looked like a building site back then - but actually I don't think the
motley collection of buildings (best seen at 6:57) had anything to do
with construction - had this rather unkempt mess just sort of
developed by default rather than design over the years?

What's the significance if any of the shot of the house and buildings
on that narrow plot of land at 5:10 - and also where exactly is that,
a junction off Pentonville Rd (with Kings Cross Road perhaps)? I can't
quite work out the lie of the land there.