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Default Bank Station, London enlargement

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Basil Jet wrote:
On 2011\11\14 23:50, Martin Rich wrote:

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It would be great if the Northern City could be extended south to
Bank, or further.


Sadly, that's very unlikely as it's not that deep a line at Moorgate,
and there are building foundations in the way. In any case, without
platform lengthening, it probably would not be justified.


If I remember rightly, it's not just any building foundations, but the
the Bank of England's vaults, that would thwart this particular extension.


I think you're thinking of the Waterloo & City Line. The Great Northern
is far enough away from Bank that you could avoid any particular
building if you were happy to demolish others.


The GN&C has, or at least had, a safeguarded extension route to Lothbury,
and in 1912 there was a parliamentary bill submitted (by the Metropolitan)
to extend the GN&C to there and link to the W&C, so the vaults can't be
an insuperable obstacle for either line. The link was rejected because
of property objections, true, but if it wasn't feasible then I don't
think the Met would have wasted money on a Bill.

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