On 1 Apr 2005, Rupert Candy wrote:

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.

Stratford? Not a terminus, i suppose.

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.

I'd like to see it; i'd also be happy to give it a home on the internet if
you like.

tom

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