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On Sep 26, 12:53*pm, Ken Wheatley wrote:
Just spend some time looking at the Snow Hill tunnel and the history of
what we now call the Thameslink route, but I'm confused. The sites all
seem to imply that the Ludgate Hill bridge was demolished, along with
Holborn Viaduct, with the arrival of Thameslink.

I'm convinced I can remember crossing the bridge more than once as, for
a time, it carried Thameslink trains.

Have I gone wrong?

No - for a short period the embryonic Thameslink service did indeed
cross the Ludgate Hill bridge before descending down the old incline
to the Snow Hill tunnels (and on to Farringdon). This all changed with
the redevelopment on the site of Holborn Viaduct and around Ludgate
Circus, which incorporated the new City Thameslink station (initially
called St Paul's) - the line was moved to a low level alignment (with
Cith Thameslink being broadly underneath the site of the old Holborn
Viaduct station) and the incline was moved further south, to a point
just north of Blackfriars station.

(I think that's more or less right!)

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:21:16 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be Mizter T
wrote this:-

for a short period the embryonic Thameslink service did indeed
cross the Ludgate Hill bridge before descending down the old incline
to the Snow Hill tunnels (and on to Farringdon).

One got a nice view of St Pauls from the bridge, if one looked at
the right moment.

The new station is a great improvement, but I wish the view was
still possible. However, the City had been trying to get the bridge
removed since it was opened and eventually they got their way.


--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
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On Sep 26, 3:28*pm, David Hansen
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:21:16 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be Mizter T
wrote this:-

for a short period the embryonic Thameslink service did indeed
cross the Ludgate Hill bridge before descending down the old incline
to the Snow Hill tunnels (and on to Farringdon).

One got a nice view of St Pauls from the bridge, if one looked at
the right moment.

The new station is a great improvement, but I wish the view was
still possible. However, the City had been trying to get the bridge
removed since it was opened and eventually they got their way.

Well, the view from street level up to St Pauls from Ludgate Circus
was restored - of course it was a view that wasn't possible for the
century and a bit that the railway bridge existed.

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:01:56 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be Mizter T
wrote this:-

The new station is a great improvement, but I wish the view was
still possible. However, the City had been trying to get the bridge
removed since it was opened and eventually they got their way.

Well, the view from street level up to St Pauls from Ludgate Circus
was restored

Not as good a view as from the train.


--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000...#pt3-pb3-l1g54