In message , at 13:36:52 on Tue, 4 Jul
2006, Ian F. remarked:
Although City Thameslink was originally called St Pauls Thameslink
(renamed in '91).

Wasn't it called Holborn Viaduct, or was that elsewhere?

Holborn Viaduct was an "overground" terminus station a little to the
north of the current KX Thameslink. Trains travelled to it from
Blackfriars using a bridge over Ludgate Hill (which also had a station
on the line at one time).

Between Ludgate Hill and Holborn Viaduct there used to be a line which
dived down and into Snow Hill tunnel, just before the throat of Holborn
Viaduct.

There has been much redevelopment in the area, including the railway
line going "underground" much earlier (as it emerges from Blackfriars)
and the construction of City Thameslink, whose northern exit is pretty
much where Holborn Viaduct used to be.

City Thameslink was opened after the Thameslink line was re-opened, and
was briefly called St Pauls Thameslink (an obvious landmark from the
main southern exit). It's quite likely that the name was changed to
avoid confusion with the somewhat distant St Pauls tube station.
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote

There has been much redevelopment in the area, including the railway
line going "underground" much earlier (as it emerges from Blackfriars)
and the construction of City Thameslink, whose northern exit is pretty
much where Holborn Viaduct used to be.

I haven't been there for some time, but when St Pauls/City Thameslink
opened, the northern exit went through the concourse of the former Holborn
Viaduct station.

Peter

In message , at 14:14:20 on
Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Peter Masson remarked:
There has been much redevelopment in the area, including the railway
line going "underground" much earlier (as it emerges from Blackfriars)
and the construction of City Thameslink, whose northern exit is pretty
much where Holborn Viaduct used to be.

I haven't been there for some time, but when St Pauls/City Thameslink
opened, the northern exit went through the concourse of the former Holborn
Viaduct station.

Today, it emerges under an office block and a short alleyway to the main
road.
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at 14:14:20 on
Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Peter Masson remarked:
There has been much redevelopment in the area, including the
railway line going "underground" much earlier (as it emerges from
Blackfriars) and the construction of City Thameslink, whose
northern exit is pretty much where Holborn Viaduct used to be.

I haven't been there for some time, but when St Pauls/City Thameslink
opened, the northern exit went through the concourse of the former
Holborn Viaduct station.

Today, it emerges under an office block and a short alleyway to the
main road.

So did the concourse of Holborn Viaduct station after the office block
was built in the 1960s! Is it the same one?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at 14:14:20 on
Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Peter Masson remarked:
There has been much redevelopment in the area, including the
railway line going "underground" much earlier (as it emerges from
Blackfriars) and the construction of City Thameslink, whose
northern exit is pretty much where Holborn Viaduct used to be.

I haven't been there for some time, but when St Pauls/City Thameslink
opened, the northern exit went through the concourse of the former
Holborn Viaduct station.

Today, it emerges under an office block and a short alleyway to the
main road.

So did the concourse of Holborn Viaduct station after the office block
was built in the 1960s! Is it the same one?


The entry for Holborn Viaduct at the Disused Stations website [1]
appears to agree with you. I quote directly from the

"The platforms have been demolished and the site redeveloped as Fleet
Place. The office block incorporating the entrance has been refaced and
now includes the entrance to City Thameslink Station sited below the
offices in Fleet Place."


The Disused Stations website [2], whilst not yet comprehensive (could
it ever be?), is a fantastic trove of information and old photograph's
concerning closed stations. It's an offshoot from the Subterranea
Britannica website.

[1] Holborn Viaduct page
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/s...ct/index.shtml

[2] Disused Stations In The UK
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:14:20 on
Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Peter Masson remarked:
I haven't been there for some time, but when St Pauls/City Thameslink
opened, the northern exit went through the concourse of the former Holborn
Viaduct station.

Today, it emerges under an office block and a short alleyway to the main
road.

Allegedly there are parts of the original Holborn Viaduct incorporated
into the northern ticket hall, but I've never been able to work out
what. (Strangely, although I remember the opening of St Paul's
Thameslink and the fact that it was briefly open to the sky before it
was capped with a building, I seem to be too young to remember Holborn
Viaduct at all.)

This was discussed a while back in some detail, and this fantastic site
was mentioned:

http://www.loveplums.co.uk/Tube/Holb...t_station.html

which may help clear up some of the mysteries.