Jorge Da Silva
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What sort of services used the City Widened Lines in the past, particularly during its heyday.
Peak hour services from ECML & MML to/from Moorgate. Further back, some services crossed the Thames to parts of what became the Southern Railway via Snow Hill, etc.What sort of services used the City Widened Lines in the past, particularly during its heyday.
What sort of services used the City Widened Lines in the past, particularly during its heyday.
I used the Widened Lines five days a week in the late 1960s, travelling between Palmers Green and Farringdon because I worked in Farringdon Road. The service I used was a peak-period-only service and did not, I believe, run at all at weekends. The rolling stock, locomotive hauled, was well maintained but ancient compartmentalised carriages.What sort of services used the City Widened Lines in the past, particularly during its heyday.
All on line now :A good starting point would be a Bradshaw guide - various libraries will have them for study.
The project for the extra connections was the complex junction linking the original New Cross-Lewisham-Woolwich line to the Nunhead line which was installed in 1929.Heyday for the Widened Lines - as they were - was the late Victorian-Edwardian era.
Services using them (not that I'm an expert) were - in summary:
Goods: Cross London Transfer from the Midland and Great Northern to the South - in particular onto the SER (via Metropolitan Junction and London Bridge: the Southern Rly had a 1920s project to put in extra connections in the Lewisham area to permit this to be rerouted via Elephant & Castle and Peckham Rye)....
I went all day Saturday! fortunately for not feeling overly aged I think they still do it.(alas I'm of the age that we even went to school on Saturday mornings!).