Martin Underwood wrote:
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Talking of Broad Street, what happenned to the services that used
to
operate into this station? I also see, from looking elsewhere that
Broad Street had an Underground station. What happenned to this?

As I understand it, the Palace Gates to North Woolwich and Richmond
to Broad
Street services were merged to become Richmond to North Woolwich. The
Palace
Gates branch closed a while ago, so there was presumably a period
when there
was just a Dalston Junction (or thereabouts) to North Woolwich
shuttle.

Once Broad Street closed, there was no main line access to the North
London
Line (ie from a BR-owned terminus); passengers from Central London
had to
use tube lines such as the Victoria from KX to Highbury and Islington
or the
Northern line from Euston to Kentish Town.

This is truly obscure, but I couldn't resist posting it - I was in
Stockholm earlier this week and was flabbergasted to find, attached to
the ceiling of an "English pub" (which is incidentally a very common
beast there) a NSE-era (ie blue and white) line diagram from Watford
Junction, which showed the DC line service to Euston, plus peak-hour
services to Liverpool Street (*not* Broad Street). The sign also showed
Primrose Hill and the Croxley Green branch, so that might help in
dating it.

Did NLL services ever run into Liverpool St? I have a reasonable
digital photo of the sign if anyone's interested.