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Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
The reason I'm asking is I'm having second thoughts now. It looks very unspectacular, really just another platform in the main railway station with LU logos. They could well have relocated the platform used by Underground trains in all those years. Or is it still the original place? Yes and no. One face is still the original. When the line was built there were connections with the national rail network, for through running from the Great Western suburban stations. The four platforms in the suburban station were allocated slightly differently. In the 1960s the national rail connections were removed and the opportunity was taken to alter the platform allocations, so that the Underground platforms were entirely separate from the suburban platforms. This was effected by moving the Underground (which used to use the middle two platforms) across by one track, so that it used the two faces of the northernmost island platform - the present arrangement. Cutting back the suburban bays slightly also allowed a walkway from the end of the northernmost mainline platform onto the suburban platforms to be created, reducing movements on the footbridge. |
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