The future of old Shoreditch

The station cutting was filled in a couple of years ago. Have a look at this picture (which was taken by me earlier this year) - the cutting used to follow a line from the yellow container in the distance, underneath the white vans (roughly where the platforms were) and underneath the station building (where there used to be a connection to the main line). As you can see, there's no trace of it.

(or compare with this image - the barbed wire fence on the right is in roughly the same place as the construction hoarding in the picture above)

Sure.

I have heard it may become a community centre.

The ELL would not go back to Liverpool St. Surely it would be the curve at Navarino Road so that the NLL can go to Liverpool St.

I apologise Cetacean. I was thinking of the wrong side. By the way, is there anything left of the junction between the widened lines and the GE?

There was a connection at Farringdon between the City Widened Lines or CWL and the Inner and Outer Circle, taken out when the Moorgate line was electrified. The Hotel Curve and York Road Curve connections to the then Eastern Region at Kings X Suburban and York Road Platform respectively. However it seems from what I have read that it is proposed to resuscitate the connection?

I seem to recall that York Road Curve has been used for cabling?

That rings a bell - although I believe it might have been the Hotel Curve that was used for pipes/cabling?

Whichever one (maybe both) of the connections were used, the utility diversions were part of the advance works before construction of the new ticket halls, around four or five years ago. From what I remember there was a bit of an accident during this phase of the work, where a mains cable was cut causing a major power failure of the public electricity supply!

I though there still a plan to run some Crossrail trains into Liverpool Street after the central section had opened?

True. While the ideal thing would have been for such work to be included in Crossrail construction, it's probably too much to expect considering the lack of foresight to sort out the approaches to the vacated international platforms at Waterloo. The future of the Hammersmith & City/Circle is another one that really should be neatly sorted out as part of Crossrail.

I haven't been following Crossrail in as much detail now that I no longer live in Essex but IIRC it will not serve Maryland and a limited number of Liverpool Street locals will be retained. Of course that could have changed, that was early on in the present set of plans.

The ELL link to the Electric Lines was planned as part of the original Liverpool Street redevelopment plan which assumed that additional platforms would be built. Because BR were not permitted to demolish the central wall dividing the two halves of the station the additional platform was never built so the ELL was never reconnected.

I remember when first commuting to the City in the 1960s being totally confused by the sight of an Underground train in the platform at Shoreditch while waiting at a signal.