In message , Paul Terry
writes
In message , Ian Jelf
writes

Wasn't it Charing Cross that Abercrombie wanted to abolish?

According to the map of the proposals, the line from London Bridge to
Charing Cross would have gone, along with the Thames bridges into
Cannon Street, Blackfriars and Charing Cross. However, all three would
have survived as deep-level through stations on the southern loop.

(I can't see any sign in the plan of Waterloo being demolished.)

Engineering works in the Dining Rooms have been completed ahead of
schedule and I can confirm that Charing Cross (and indeed Cannon Street
and Blackfriars) would have gone. The report has a strange fascination
or obsession with removing Thames railway bridges but adding a new
Charing Cross Road Bridge.

I hadn't really considered them being "replaced" by underground
equivalents, looking at the deep level railway tubes as being London
Underground rather than a form of Crossrail (or S-Bahn, if you see what
I mean) but that does seem to be the case.
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

Ian Jelf wrote on 25 Oct 2006:

My copy of the County of London Plan is currently inaccessible due to
planned engineering works in what used to be our dining room.......

Ian Jelf then wrote on 27 Oct 2006:

Engineering works in the Dining Rooms have been completed ahead of
schedule

Amazing! Not only have you beaten the schedule, but you now have at
least one additional dining room.

Please, please, get a job at Metronet!

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:23:50 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

Ian Jelf wrote on 25 Oct 2006:

My copy of the County of London Plan is currently inaccessible due to
planned engineering works in what used to be our dining room.......

Ian Jelf then wrote on 27 Oct 2006:

Engineering works in the Dining Rooms have been completed ahead of
schedule

Amazing! Not only have you beaten the schedule, but you now have at
least one additional dining room.

Please, please, get a job at Metronet!

LOL!
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

In message , Ian Jelf
writes

The report has a strange fascination or obsession with removing Thames
railway bridges but adding a new Charing Cross Road Bridge.

I hadn't noticed that before, but you are right - and it looks as though
the railway bridges into Blackfriars and Cannon Street would also have
become road bridges.

I hadn't really considered them being "replaced" by underground
equivalents, looking at the deep level railway tubes as being London
Underground rather than a form of Crossrail (or S-Bahn, if you see what
I mean) but that does seem to be the case.

Indeed so. I have put a scan of the map on the WWW at:
http://www.musonix.com/maps/map001.jpg

--
Paul Terry