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Post by jimbo on Aug 11, 2022 0:32:33 GMT
As an aside, I've had a similar-ish problem at Liverpool Street station - decades ago I was going to meet some cousins at the ticket hall. I tried to tell them that we were to meet at the British Railways ticket hall near to platform 18 but they did not understand even the concept of a large station having multiple ticket halls, let alone there being at least six 'ticket halls' at the one station. I might as well have been speaking in the proverbial 'double dutch'. (2x BR near platforms 1 and 18 and 4x LT - one with passimeters below Broad Street stn and with single bore escalators to the Central line; the main ticket sales area that still exists today; one on a ramp to the road which I think is called Liverpool Street ... this was reached via the steps at the eastern end of the subsurface platforms; and finally at the entrance to the shopping arcade which was reached via steps midway along the subsurface platforms) I'm sure Liverpool St LU had even more ticket offices in the 1960s! It was quite a maze. |
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Post by rincew1nd on Aug 11, 2022 6:50:00 GMT
It was BR policy upon Nationalisation not to have two stations with the same name, which led to the re-naming of one of the New Cross stations (I can't remember which). I grew up in Bramley (Yorks). There is also a Bramley (Hants). BR must have decided that the two were sufficiently far apart not to be of consequence. |
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Post by castlebar on Aug 11, 2022 7:29:03 GMT
Both on Southern: "London Road"
Became L.R. Brighton and L.R. Guildford
and of course, "Waterloo" is part of the Merseyrail network, the southern version now being known as "London Waterloo"
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Post by brigham on Aug 11, 2022 7:32:59 GMT
It seems the New Cross re-naming was a Grouping thing, not Nationalisation after all. There was an extreme case of a re-naming which started me off on the idea, years ago, but I can't remember it.
On a similar transport/engineering subject, the lighthouse on Lizard Point on the Durham Coast is called 'Souter Point', lest some hapless mariner confuse it with the somewhat more southerly Lizard Point light in Cornwall.
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Post by jimbo on Aug 12, 2022 3:50:50 GMT
To get back on topic, it seems that step-free interchange between Circle and E.Line is available at Farringdon and Moorgate, but provision at Barbican could not be justified, presumably due to cost to outer-rail platform. However, step-free access was cheaply provided to the inner-rail platform, linking with the route between the new Lindsey Street ticket hall and the E.Line. This is in the former City Widened Lines tunnel, signed to E.Line, although not shown along the platform. Is this also signed as lift exit to street? Or how will anyone know?
Does the new Lindsey Street E.Line ticket hall have signage showing that lift access to the Circle Line outer-rail platform is available? Does the original Barbican ticket hall have signage showing that lift access to the outer-rail platform is available via the new Lindsey Street ticket hall? Or how will anyone know?
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