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Post by mrjrt on Apr 27, 2012 9:40:55 GMT
In a discussion elsewhere the topic of the aborted extensions of the widened lines to Euston has cropped up. The tunnels are widely known to have sensibly been built under St. Pancras's forecourt during construction, but it has been raised that the name of the later junction between the Met and these tunnels was known as Chalton Street Junction - some 210m to the west of the forecourt.
Can anyone confirm if these tunnels (or indeed, just the one) tunnel were extended (one source says perhaps in 1926), and if the work was indeed done by CnC or some other means.
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Post by Harsig on Apr 27, 2012 10:23:52 GMT
In a discussion elsewhere the topic of the aborted extensions of the widened lines to Euston has cropped up. The tunnels are widely known to have sensibly been built under St. Pancras's forecourt during construction, but it has been raised that the name of the later junction between the Met and these tunnels was known as Chalton Street Junction - some 210m to the west of the forecourt. Can anyone confirm if these tunnels (or indeed, just the one) tunnel were extended (one source says perhaps in 1926), and if the work was indeed done by CnC or some other means. According to Alan Jackson's 'London's Metropolitan Railway' a 700 foot connection was built between Chalton Street and the original 1,200 foot tunnel below St Pancras forecourt. The connection was built by the contractors Walter Scott & Middleton at a cost of £50,730 and was indeed constructed using a cut & cover operation, which also involved diverting a sewer. The work was approved by the Met's Board in March 1923 and was brought into use in 1926. |
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Post by mrjrt on Apr 27, 2012 11:07:31 GMT
You're a star, thanks!
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