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Old June 20th 05, 08:59 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 wrote:

Willesden Junction would be even more useful if they'd re-instate
the platforms on the slow lines. There's been talk of it for
about twenty years, but no signof it actually happening.


Oh! Are there four tracks at WJ High Level station? I've never
noticed. I thought it was just a pair of platforms facing each
other. Was there once an island platform serving two tracks between
the ones that the stopping trains use?


He's talking about the slow lines on the 4-track Euston-Watford main
line. WJ High Level (NLL) has just two tracks either side of a short
island platform.


In that case, I've even more confused, because I thought that the platforms
at WJ LL *were* on the slow lines, the fast lines being the ones that bypass
the station altogether. Or are there six tracks here - two fast, two slow
and a *third* set that has the platforms?