In article , Michael Bell
writes
It is a fairly obvious feature of railways south of the river that
many run at roof level.

I once got into correspondence with somebody who said "It is the
long-term objective to put these routes underground".

This was certainly the plan around the time of WW2. People in authority
thought the railway bridges across the Thames were ugly, and so the plan
was to remove them and put the SR routes underground.

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"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message
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This was certainly the plan around the time of WW2.
People in authority thought the railway bridges across
the Thames were ugly, and so the plan was to
remove them and put the SR routes underground.

Amazing. Surely it would have been cheaper to just replace the bridges with
prettier ones.

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