does the Governor of the Bank of England need to go down to the
vaults every day to count the reserves? Why not move the reserves out
of London to say Skelmersdale or Pontefract thereby freeing up via
routes for London's commuters - by unkinking (or should that be
dekinking the Central Line) or allowing the Drain to be developed as a
cheaper Chelsea Hackney variant.

Its not just the UK reserves stored there. Its the reserves for
several other countries as well; I'm not sure they would all take
kindly to moving their national reserves to Skelmersdale.