Thread: Freight on the Metropolitan Line?
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Old March 2nd 12, 08:53 AM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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Default Freight on the Metropolitan Line?
On 02/03/2012 09:38, d wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 22:50:37 -0000
"Peter wrote:
At that date the Widened Lines only ran from Farringdon to Aldersgate
(Barbican) They were extended to Moorgate on 1 Jyly 1866, and westward to
Kings Cross early in 1868. The Snow Hill link from Farringdon to Ludgate
Hill opened at the beginning of 1866, and the third side of the triangle
from Snow Hill to Aldersgate came into use in September 1871. Broad Gauge
GWR trains ran to Moorgate until 14 March 1869, but it is unclear whether
they used the original Met lines, crossed to the Widened Lines at
Farringdon, or even crossed to the Widened Lines at Kings Cross (from early
1868) - if there was actually a connection from the Met to the Widened Lines
at Kings Cross.

I don't know if this is what you're talking about , but just west of the
eastbound met line platform at kings cross there is a disused tunnel coming
from the north that joins the main running line.


Is that the projected connection to the Midland line at St Pancras?
AFAIK the tunnels were built but never used.

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