On Dec 9, 12:30*pm, Charlie Hulme
wrote:
On 09/12/2011 12:17, Mizter T wrote:

[Cross-posted to uk.railway, where answers may lie...]

"David Cantrell" wrote:
I'm reading the new Sherlock Holmes story "The House of Silk"
by Anthony
Horowitz, and I'm very much afraid that he hasn't done his
homework
properly. He mentions a train service from Wimbledon to London
Bridge
in November 1890. I very much doubt that such a service
existed, am I
right? I'd like to check my facts before mentioning it in my book
review!

I don't know about 1890, but in the 1960s when I lived in
Wimbledon there certainly was a service to Holborn Viaduct which
called at London Bridge and Blackfriars - this was before the
'Thameslink' service was developed, of course.

Charlie

I have a facsimile LSWR timetable from 1914; this shows a regular
service from Ludgate Hill/St Paul's (now Blackfriars) to Wimbledon
plus a frequent rail motor service between Streatham and Wimbledon;
did any of these run through to London Bridge? The Streatham -
Wimbledon line (including the Merton Abbey loop) was jointly owned by
the LSWR and LBSCR, opening in 1868, so in theory a train service
could have run from London Bridge to Wimbledon. I do not know if the
LSWR timetable shows all services over the line, so there may have
been additional LBSCR services outwith the joint running agreement
that are not shown.