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Old April 3rd 08, 06:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default Croxley Rail Link hits the sidings

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Mr Thant wrote:

On 2 Apr, 23:30, Tom Anderson wrote:

And heading north. I saw a mention of a branch that was built to the
Croxley printworks - is this it? Seems a bit mad that this railway built
two separate branches that went to almost the same place. No wonder they
went bust.


The London Railway Atlas* says the branch to the north goes to
"Croxley Mill", very near Croxley Green station.


Okay. A bit of digging reveals that this mill was a paper mill, built by a
John Dickinson. Printworks was almost right!

(* You really should buy a copy)


Yes sir. Sorry sir.

tom

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