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  • #21
    Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View Post
    I lived in New Southgate in the late 60s/early 70s and commuted by rail to work in the city every day from New Southgate station.

    It was a very easy commute - through train to (what was) Aldersgate and beyond. Can't remember where it terminated now!
    *Railfan alert*
    Your route on the "City Widened Lines" to Farringdon and Moorgate (parallelling the Circle Line) ceased when the Great Northern suburban electrification at last (after 80-odd years) took its intended underground route from Finsbury Park via Drayton Park to the deep-level station at Moorgate which had been the location of the Moorgate tube train disaster.

    The other electrification, originally christened "Bedpan", still uses the City Widened Lines, with the Thameslink route to Brighton turning right at Farringdon. The rump to Moorgate is to close in March so they can extend the Farringdon platforms as part of what was laughingly called Thameslink 2000 and is now due to open in time for the London Olympics (possibly).
    Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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    • #22
      Originally posted by karensainsbury View Post
      Just one more question - as a clerk at the bank, which sounds a fairly humble position, (no offence intended to any bank clerks on here!) - would he have been able to afford to buy a house in the leafy suburbs?
      I would have thought so. Bank employees got highly preferential mortgages, and local authority mortgages at bargain rates were also widely available.
      Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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