On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 11:47:22 +0100, Guy Gorton
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On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 15:31:39 +0100, "NY" wrote:

"e27002 aurora" wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 14:50:43 +0100, "NY" wrote:

"Guy Gorton" wrote in message
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:39:51 +0100, Charles Ellson
wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...f-penalty.html

The photo used is exciting - 3rd rail into Marylebone almost
overnight!

And look how many different lines converge on Marylebone - all those extra
routes! Fitting them all through the tunnel under Lords cricket ground
might
be a problem.

The GCR built two doubletrack, and one tripple track tunnels under the
MCC Lords grounds. Although AFIK one one has track within it just
now.

I never knew that but I've just checked the large-scale maps on
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=14...0.1684,51.5302

Although the tunnel further north is only single bore and twin track, the
southern section beneath Lords has two extra bores and 2+3 tracks either
side of the through ones:

http://maps.nls.uk/view/103029033 top left between Broadhurst Gardens and
Canfield Place by Finchley Road station, and spanning South Hampstead
station bottom centre

but

http://maps.nls.uk/view/103029030 bottom right and
http://maps.nls.uk/view/103029327 top left

Here is a photo by S. W. A. Newton of those 3 tunnels at Lords being
constructed.
http://www.railwayarchive.org.uk/map...=1&mp=3&all=no
You can navigate away friom this picture to see a wide range of Newton
photos from that area. In fact from almost anywhere along the GCR
line.

Many of those pictures were printed in a book by LTC Rolt. Some were
printed in a booklet by a Leicestershire museum. The railwayarchive
link is in "my favourites".

These photographs are wonderful, yet so sad. The fact that the
construction of MS&L ry's route to London is so well documented is
great. I love to look at them.

But, one is reminded of how this route was run down and finally closed
by Barbara Castle. The jobs were lost, and the family connections and
travel opportunities gone. And more freight was pushed onto the
roads.

Muy triste.