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Post by sophie on May 17, 2008 14:29:44 GMT
I just read a book where one of the characters travelled direct from Liverpool Lime Street to London Victoria (she was going to Central London). Was this ever possible? Even before the Victoria Line was built, wouldn't it have been quicker to use the Underground? The book is set about 25 years ago so the Victoria Line would have been there.
I suppose if you wanted to avoid the Underground (strange as it seems) you could go from Lime Street to Watford Junction and take the London Overground to Clapham Junction and from there to Victoria but that isn't exactly direct and if I wanted Central London I'd go to Waterloo not Victoria.
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Post by ruislip on May 17, 2008 16:32:17 GMT
She could have changed at Watford Junction, taken the Bakerloo to Paddington (in that era there were plenty of Bakerloos to and from Watford Junction), and changed onto the Circle for the rest of her journey. Or she could have gone all the way to Euston on the LMS/LNWR, taken the Northern West End branch to then-Charing Cross (today's Embankment), and there changed to a westbound Circle/District to Victoria.
But then in the ficticious world of this book you mention, Victoria would have been the London terminus of the main line journey from Liverpool.
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