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Holborn Viaduct
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Paul Terry wrote:
In message , Marratxi writes Its hard to believe that there were three stations in what seems quite a short trip from Blackfriars to Farringdon, There were actually only two stations, Ludgate Hill and Snow Hill (renamed Holborn Viaduct Low Level in 1912 and closed in 1916) on the route you mention. The main Holborn Viaduct station was a terminus on a short branch off that route. Why were there two Holborn Viaduct stations, then? AIUI, the low level station was the first to be built, so why did someone see the need for another station in more or less the same place? Was it just to provide more capacity? I can imagine that reversing lots of LCDR trains at the low-level station would make it rather hard to run a high-frequency through service as well. I can't imagine a London where there was the space to go round building stations willy-nilly like that! tom -- Gin makes a man mean; let's booze up and riot! |
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