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Posted by Fytton on Fri Dec 15 05:25:40 2006, in response to Re: Thameslink 2020 inches closer, posted by JohnL on Thu Dec 14 13:27:13 2006. 'What is going to happen to the tracks at Barbican & Moorgate? Are they just going to sit unused?'I would imagine so, in the short term. LU has some sidings just east of Farringdon and could in principle take over the current Thameslink tracks for some more. Similarly, LU has some terminal platforms at Moorgate subsurface station which it doesn't use much except in emergencies; it could take over the Thameslink terminal platforms too, but it doesn't need them. All of this would need money for track rearrangements, and why spend it on facilities that you barely need? On a related point - the plans for extending Farringdon Thameslink platforms to twelve-car length envisage a new station entrance for Thameslink across the street from the existing LU station entrance. The street in between the two is scheduled to become a pedestrian piazza (appropriately named, in what is a historically Italian district of London!). When I was there recently I noticed that the building across the street from the station, where the new Thameslink entrance will be, actually matches the station architecturally, and was presumably built by the Metropolitan Railway Company at the same time as the station building. And the station still has 'Metropolitan Railway Farringdon and High Holborn Station' on it! |
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