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[email protected] · February 14th 10, 02:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(lonelytraveller) wrote:

On 14 Feb, 12:09, wrote:
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(lonelytraveller) wrote:
On 14 Feb, 11:19, wrote:
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On 13 Feb, 15:30, "Peter Lawrence"
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:34:42 -0800 (PST), lonelytraveller

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Why is there a door in the ceiling at the south end of
platform 10 at moorgate (behind that cage thing) ?

Was that originally a vent for diesel fumes?

I thought that line was always electric?

Not if you mean the Metropolitan Widened Lines.

No, I mean the ones that go to Finsbury Park. The one marked
platform 10, in fact.

I wasn't clear what the Moorgate numbering scheme, especially as these
things change over the years. What are now the FCC platforms were the
GNC and not Metropolitan ones at the outset.

It can be a bit confusing, can't it. Platforms 9 & 10 are one of those
rare cases where the platform is actually visibly numbered on the
platform.

Platform 10 is the one on the right when you descend the escalators.
Its also the only one with a cage-thing at the end.

The over-run tunnel arrangements at Moorgate GNC were different. IIRC the
longer overrun was the platform 9 one where the 1975 crash occurred. I'm
not sure what they did to them after that.

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Colin Rosenstiel