"Andrew" wrote in message ...
This is highly speculative and I'm sure the engineering feats involved
would be considerable, but how about connecting the Northern City / WAGN
line with the Thameslink spur into Moorgate, and restoring the 3rd curve at
Farringdon Junction making it a triangular junction again. Would create

I suspect the gradiants and curves required to join the 2 would be too severe
unless a new line split off from blackfriars since from Barbican you'd have
to drop about 20 metres and do a 90 degree turn in the space of 1/4 mile.

more direct North-South journey possibilities without building a second
tunnel. However after Thameslink 2000 is complete this might prove rather
superfluous anyway as there will be a direct route from the ECML through the
new Kings Cross Thameslink station and on to Farringdon. It seems a shame
to abandon the Moorgate Thameslink route though.

Don't worry , at the speed things are progressing I suspect it'll soon be
renamed Thameslink 3000.

B2003