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Mill Hill East
In message , Tim Roll-Pickering
writes That explains why it was built but not why the connection at Holborn is so useless. I suspect that by the time it was built, it was already obvious that Aldwych would never be more than a rather useless stub. During the planning stages it must have seemed to have had great potential to extend to Waterloo - but an attempt to get as far as Temple was killed off by the LCC and local landowners in 1902. Then a bill for a single bore tunnel direct to Waterloo was killed off by parliament in 1905 - by which time work had already begun on the Aldwych branch. So I suspect that the odd crossover arrangement at Holborn was eventually never seen as anything much more than a way of getting the Aldwych shuttle car out onto the main line for repairs, etc. (despite the very short-lived theatre through train). -- Paul Terry |
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