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Posted by Fytton on Thu Dec 14 09:27:37 2006 A legal notice has appeared at Bedford (England) station. The Secretary of State for Transport has given permission for the withdrawal of national rail services from the Farringdon-Barbican-Moorgate line (but not before 30 September 2008 at the earliest), and for the closure of Kings Cross Thameslink station (but not before the opening of St Pancras Midland Road station).Explanation - if and when Thameslink 2000 gets built, the extension of the Thameslink platforms at Farringdon will run across the site of the junction with the branch to Moorgate. (Underground trains, on their own separate tracks between Farringdon and Moorgate, are unaffected.) St Pancras Midland Road is the name that has been decided on for the new Thameslink station underneath St Pancras International (which the main line station upstairs is now called). Kings Cross Thameslink (originally Kings Cross station on the Metropolitan Widened Lines) is inadequate, bady sited, and incapable of being extended. |
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